Tokenized Stocks Surge 395% in a Year, But DeFi Adoption Remains Surprisingly Low
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Tokenized stocks expanded sharply over the year, with onchain value rising from $640 million to about $3.16 billion or $3.17 billion in the two writeups. Even with that growth, DeFi usage around the market remained limited, with one report pointing to about $81 million in lending collateral and another saying DeFi adoption stayed under 3%.
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Tokenized stocks are now larger enough to be visible to users tracking onchain markets, because one report shows supply in the billions and another shows only a small slice of that value appearing in lending collateral. That means the activity is not just on the asset side; it is still thin where traders would use it inside DeFi today.
In practice, the market still looks different from a fully integrated DeFi asset class, because one piece says leveraged equity exposure onchain sits almost entirely in perpetual futures. What changed is the amount of tokenized stock supply onchain; what has not changed is the limited use of those tokens in lending and broader DeFi activity. (per thedefiant.io)
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