IMF: Tokenized markets are tiny, retail-driven and fragmented, and stablecoins may be the weak link
The IMF said tokenized real-world assets reached about $65 billion in July, while excluding repurchase agreements, stablecoins and private markets from that figure. It also described the market as small, fragmented and heavily driven by retail trading, and said stablecoin-based settlement adds a new regulatory risk.
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Users and market participants notice a tokenized market that has reached about $65 billion, but that total still excludes repurchase agreements, stablecoins and private markets. Regulators also see a settlement setup that the IMF described as a fresh risk, which makes the market more visible to oversight even as it remains relatively small.
In practice, the market is being described as fragmented and retail-driven rather than as a broad institutional pool. The IMF also linked tokenized equities to very small trade sizes in its analysis, with around 80% of the tokenized equity trades it reviewed involving fewer than one share.
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