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Tokenised Stock Holders Double to 1.31 Million as Monthly Trading Volume Jumps 179 Per Cent to 23.13 Billion Dollars

  • Writer: Shawn Jhanji
    Shawn Jhanji
  • Aug 18
  • 3 min read
If you are still treating tokenised equity as a slow burn regulatory story, the retail adoption numbers out this week are a reminder that the market is not waiting for permission. The total number of holders of tokenised stocks climbed to 1.31 million, more than double the figure recorded 30 days earlier, according to data published by RWA.xyz. Monthly transfer volume rose 179 per cent over the same period to 23.13 billion dollars. Monthly active addresses increased 34.62 per cent to nearly 572,000, and total distributed value across the sector grew 5.9 per cent to 2.38 billion dollars. The growth sits inside a wider expansion across real world asset tokenisation, with Standard Chartered forecasting that the total tokenised RWA market could reach 4 trillion dollars by the end of 2028. Three platforms account for the bulk of the distributed value. Ondo Finance holds approximately 872 million dollars, Kraken's xStocks follows at 557.8 million dollars, and Binance's bStocks sits at 521.8 million dollars. Binance only launched bStocks in June 2026, and it has already closed to within roughly 36 million dollars of xStocks, a fast catch up in a market most assumed the earlier movers would keep locked down. Among individual tokenised assets, Securitize holds the largest distributed value at 145.2 million dollars, followed by Strategy PP Variable xStock at 135.6 million dollars and Ondo's tokenised Circle shares at 99.7 million dollars. Tokenised SpaceX exposure through Binance's bStocks has grown to 67.9 million dollars in distributed value since SpaceX's 12 June listing, placing it seventh among individual tokenised assets in the RWA.xyz dataset. That SpaceX exposure came with a stumble worth noting for anyone weighing how resilient this infrastructure really is. A wave of crypto platforms, including Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, Bybit, Bitget and Blockchain.com, rolled out tokenised pre-IPO products, perpetual futures and proxy tokens ahead of SpaceX's public market debut, with a single Binance campaign drawing 557 million dollars in subscriptions before the listing date.

If you are still treating tokenised equity as a slow burn regulatory story, the retail adoption numbers out this week are a reminder that the market is not waiting for permission. The total number of holders of tokenised stocks climbed to 1.31 million, more than double the figure recorded 30 days earlier, according to data published by RWA.xyz. Monthly transfer volume rose 179 per cent over the same period to 23.13 billion dollars.


Monthly active addresses increased 34.62 per cent to nearly 572,000, and total distributed value across the sector grew 5.9 per cent to 2.38 billion dollars. The growth sits inside a wider expansion across real world asset tokenisation, with Standard Chartered forecasting that the total tokenised RWA market could reach 4 trillion dollars by the end of 2028.


Three platforms account for the bulk of the distributed value. Ondo Finance holds approximately 872 million dollars, Kraken's xStocks follows at 557.8 million dollars, and Binance's bStocks sits at 521.8 million dollars.


Binance only launched bStocks in June 2026, and it has already closed to within roughly 36 million dollars of xStocks, a fast catch up in a market most assumed the earlier movers would keep locked down.


Among individual tokenised assets, Securitize holds the largest distributed value at 145.2 million dollars, followed by Strategy PP Variable xStock at 135.6 million dollars and Ondo's tokenised Circle shares at 99.7 million dollars. Tokenised SpaceX exposure through Binance's bStocks has grown to 67.9 million dollars in distributed value since SpaceX's 12 June listing, placing it seventh among individual tokenised assets in the RWA.xyz dataset.


That SpaceX exposure came with a stumble worth noting for anyone weighing how resilient this infrastructure really is. A wave of crypto platforms, including Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, Bybit, Bitget and Blockchain.com, rolled out tokenised pre-IPO products, perpetual futures and proxy tokens ahead of SpaceX's public market debut, with a single Binance campaign drawing 557 million dollars in subscriptions before the listing date.


You might recall that Binance, Bybit and Bitget Wallet all cancelled their tokenised SpaceX pre-IPO campaigns after xStocks failed to secure enough underlying shares to fill demand, and customers were refunded. Demand for SpaceX exposure has continued since the listing through bStocks regardless.


So as momentum continues at pace, the general read is less about the individual tickers and more about what the volume growth signals: tokenised equity access is scaling fastest where it is easiest to reach, largely offshore exchange rails serving retail demand for US listed names.


Britain's own approach, built around PISCES trading events and regulated custody rather than exchange listed tokenised proxies, is deliberately slower and narrower in who can access it. The gap between the two models is exactly the terrain we keep returning to: whether a more permissive, faster moving offshore market pulls UK liquidity and attention away from the regulated path, or whether the regulated path proves to be the more durable one once the current wave of enthusiasm is tested by a downturn or a shortfall like the SpaceX subscription episode.


Key Takeaways


  • Tokenised stock holders more than doubled in 30 days to 1.31 million, with monthly transfer volume up 179 per cent to 23.13 billion dollars, according to RWA.xyz.

  • Ondo Finance, Kraken's xStocks and Binance's bStocks hold the largest share of distributed value, with Binance closing the gap on the earlier movers within two months of launch.

  • Standard Chartered forecasts the total tokenised real world asset market could reach 4 trillion dollars by the end of 2028.

  • The SpaceX tokenised pre-IPO episode, where Binance, Bybit and Bitget Wallet had to cancel campaigns and refund customers after failing to secure enough underlying shares, is a live case study in the operational limits of fast growing tokenised equity products.

  • The volume growth sharpens the contrast between offshore, exchange led tokenised equity markets and the UK's slower, more tightly regulated PISCES model, a divergence UK founders and platforms should watch closely.

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