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Ondo Finance's FXIon tokenized equity product reached 59,000 holders across multiple blockchains, the company announced Aug. 26.
Ondo managing director John Hoffman said the platform has passed $1 billion in TVL, with the holder count reflecting accelerating demand for onchain equity exposure.
Tokenized stocks reached roughly $1.8 billion in market capitalization in August, accounting for about 15 percent of the tracked real-world asset market — three times their share at the start of 2026. Ondo held the largest slice at roughly $957 million on Aug. 17. The Ondo Stocks platform offers more than 440 tokenized stocks and ETFs across Ethereum, BNB Chain and Solana.
The milestone shows tokenized equities expanding beyond spot trading into credit and derivatives. Ondo Perps recently added Circle, SpaceX and SanDisk tokens as eligible collateral, letting traders retain equity exposure while funding leveraged positions. The broader $2.8 billion tokenized RWA market is finding new use cases as issuers compete for capital.
Collateral and Credit Expand Tokenized Equity Utility
Ondo Perps now accepts tokenized Circle (CRCLon), SpaceX (SPCXon) and SanDisk (SNDKon) as collateral, allowing traders to keep market exposure while supporting perpetual futures trades. The design lets one equity token back a perpetual contract on another asset, which Ondo pitches as an early form of onchain prime brokerage.
The immediate use case is hedging — a trader holding a tokenized equity can open an offsetting perpetual position on the same venue. Basis strategies add another layer, where investors hold the spot token, short its perpetual future and collect funding when rates are positive.
Collateral quality matters in perpetual markets, which depend on reliable pricing and sufficient liquidity to manage liquidations during volatile periods. Equities also introduce dividends, stock splits and other corporate actions into the risk model. Ondo says its tokenized stocks and ETFs are backed by corresponding securities and cash in transit, with underlying holdings kept at US-registered broker-dealers or US-chartered national trust companies. An independent verification agent reviews the backing each business day.
In February, Ondo brought SPYon and QQQon into Morpho lending markets, allowing the tokenized S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 ETF products to serve as collateral for borrowing. Gauntlet provides risk management for those markets. Chainlink data feeds for Ondo assets including SPYon, QQQon and TSLAon went live earlier this year, supporting collateral valuation across DeFi applications. Euler was among the first integrations, letting users borrow stablecoins against eligible tokenized stocks and ETFs.
A tokenized security can now begin as market exposure to a stock, then become lending collateral and support derivatives trading. Each additional use gives holders more ways to deploy the same asset across onchain finance. The 59,000-holder milestone for FXIon suggests this multi-use approach is resonating with a growing base of users who want equity exposure without leaving the blockchain.
The growth comes as tokenized RWA issuers compete for capital across chains. Ondo's $957 million slice of the tokenized equity market on Aug. 17 compares with a broader $2.8 billion RWA market spanning treasuries, money market funds and commodities. The expansion of tokenized equities into collateral and derivatives gives Ondo a structural advantage over issuers that only offer spot exposure.
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