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ZIGChain integrated Ondo Finance's tokenized US stocks and exchange-traded funds into its Layer 1 ecosystem on June 8, giving users across the Gulf Cooperation Council region onchain access to more than 100 publicly traded US securities without traditional brokerage minimums.
"The next phase of onchain finance is not about replicating access that institutions already have," said Abdul Rafay Gadit, Co-Founder of ZIGChain. "It is about taking those instruments and making them genuinely accessible to a broader universe of participants, through transparent, scalable onchain infrastructure, without the minimums and intermediaries that have always stood in the way."
The rollout begins in phases from late May 2026 across selected ZIGChain ecosystem applications, with broader availability planned over time. Ondo Global Markets, which has been the largest tokenized equities venue by total value locked since its September 2025 launch, handles the issuance and redemption of the underlying assets through Ondo Global Markets (BVI) Limited. ZIGChain does not custody the real-world assets and the integration does not constitute a token launch or guarantee of yield.
The partnership deepens ZIGChain's real-world asset stack, which already includes Valdora Finance's Liquid RWA Vaults and Beehive's tokenized small and medium-sized enterprise private credit pipeline. For Ondo Finance, the deal extends distribution into the GCC region — a market where demand for US equity exposure has historically been constrained by intermediaries, account minimums and cross-border friction. The integration follows Ondo's recent expansion into major wallets including MetaMask, Trust Wallet and KuCoin Web3 Wallet, which added more than 260 Ondo-tokenized securities in late April.
"Bringing tokenized US stocks and ETFs to new ecosystems and user bases is core to what the Ondo Global Markets platform enables," said Oya Celiktemur, EMEA Director at Ondo Finance. "ZIGChain's infrastructure gives investors across the GCC onchain exposure to the world's most in-demand securities, with the execution quality and transparency that institutional markets demand."
Tokenized real-world assets represent one of the fastest-growing segments in crypto, with industry forecasts projecting the category to expand significantly over the coming decade. The ZIGChain-Ondo integration lands alongside a broader surge in tokenized US equity access, including Binance's launch of its own equities and bStocks products in the same month. By targeting the GCC specifically, ZIGChain is betting that the next wave of tokenized-equity adoption comes not from deepening access where it already exists, but from extending it into regions where demand has long outstripped supply.
This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice.
