Stocks on the Blockchain, is it the new trend?

[Hypnosis00]

Crypto firms like Robinhood, Gemini, and Kraken are now launching stock-linked tokens, digital assets that track real companies like Tesla or Apple. The market already hit $400M in just a year, fueled by Trump’s pro-crypto stance and hopes for 24/7 trading and instant settlement.

The problem is, most of these tokens don’t actually give you ownership or voting rights, they only copy the movement of real stock prices, making them more like synthetic bets than true shares. And if the company behind them goes under, investors could end up with nothing.

So what do you think, are tokenized stocks the next big step in investing, or just another risky trend disguised as innovation?


[1] Crypto Firms’ Rush to Launch Stock-Linked Tokens Raises Alarm Bells Among Regulators

A growing number of crypto firms are rushing to issue tokens tied to real-world stocks, igniting concerns among regulators and Wall Street giants who warn that the unregulated market could expose investors to hidden risks.

Key Takeaways:

Major crypto firms like Robinhood, Gemini, and Kraken are launching tokenized stock trading.

Many of these tokens lack ownership or voting rights, exposing investors to counterparty risks.

Advocates argue regulated tokenization could improve transparency, efficiency, and access in traditional markets.

[Charles-Tim]

They are all not bitcoin but they are altcoins, tokens that are created on solana, ethereum blockchain etc cetera. So this discussion supposed to be in altcoins discussions.

So what do you think, are tokenized stocks the next big step in investing, or just another risky trend disguised as innovation?

They are the lastest thing that is happening but they look like something that is not new. Maybe because I have seen stable coins backed by United States dollar and gold before. But this time, it is stocks.

[hero_the_bossman]

It's just the continuation of the trend, imo.

And I agree, this thread is better be in alts discussions.

[Hypnosis00]

They are the lastest thing that is happening but they look like something that is not new. Maybe because I have seen stable coins backed by United States dollar and gold before. But this time, it is stocks.

This seems related to the recent news about Wall Street getting interested in tokenizing stocks. So yeah, maybe it’s really becoming a trend now. But I don’t think it’s going to hurt Bitcoin’s popularity, if anything, it might be the altcoins that’ll take the hit.

( i have move this to the right board)

[Charles-Tim]

This seems related to the recent news about Wall Street getting interested in tokenizing stocks. So yeah, maybe it’s really becoming a trend now. But I don’t think it’s going to hurt Bitcoin’s popularity, if anything, it might be the altcoins that’ll take the hit.

It is not going to hurt bitcoin popularity at all because most people will still prefer to buy stocks than to buy their tokenized tokens which can depeg. If you compare all of them to bitcoin right now, they do not make up more than 2.5% of bitcoin marketcap. Their trading volume is also significantly lower than bitcoin trading volume.

[Hypnosis00]

This seems related to the recent news about Wall Street getting interested in tokenizing stocks. So yeah, maybe it’s really becoming a trend now. But I don’t think it’s going to hurt Bitcoin’s popularity, if anything, it might be the altcoins that’ll take the hit.

It is not going to hurt bitcoin popularity at all because most people will still prefer to buy stocks than to buy their tokenized tokens which can depeg. If you compare all of them to bitcoin right now, they do not make up more than 2.5% of bitcoin marketcap. Their trading volume is also significantly lower than bitcoin trading volume.

well of course that cannot be denied...

But what about if the US stocks gets tokenized? its around $62.8 trillion mid 2025.. would it impact bitcoin if they will be tokenize?

[betswift]

They are the lastest thing that is happening but they look like something that is not new. Maybe because I have seen stable coins backed by United States dollar and gold before. But this time, it is stocks.

This seems related to the recent news about Wall Street getting interested in tokenizing stocks. So yeah, maybe it’s really becoming a trend now. But I don’t think it’s going to hurt Bitcoin’s popularity, if anything, it might be the altcoins that’ll take the hit.

( i have move this to the right board)

Depends on how successfully it will go.

But BTC is going to be fine either way..Because it is it's own thing.

[Ojima-ojo]

What do you expect when the market is building and adopting blockchain based projects as the future of finances, don't be surprised at what is happening right now and we shouldn't think anything different as normal trends that happens in the cryptocurrency market, we are beginning to see stock assets listed on crypto exchanges.

This point to mainstream adoption and, alot other civil usage for blockchain and cryptocurrency market, as the new way of financing that other sector want to dive on it trends.

[TastyChillySauce00]

Crypto firms like Robinhood, Gemini, and Kraken are now launching stock-linked tokens, digital assets that track real companies like Tesla or Apple. The market already hit $400M in just a year, fueled by Trump’s pro-crypto stance and hopes for 24/7 trading and instant settlement.

The problem is, most of these tokens don’t actually give you ownership or voting rights, they only copy the movement of real stock prices, making them more like synthetic bets than true shares. And if the company behind them goes under, investors could end up with nothing.

So what do you think, are tokenized stocks the next big step in investing, or just another risky trend disguised as innovation?

I think it's just an attempt to grab some market share off the crypto market, we all know crypto market has grown significantly with $191 B volume daily.

The stock sector want to capture the market through these tokenized stock probably, but yeah the fact that it's just like synthethic bet than true share is something that i'm concerned about but I think most people who trade don't really care about it.
I don't think it's a new trend at all though, market demand seamless rotation between crypto and stock and they provide exactly what they needed.

[bbc.reporter]

@TastyChillySauce00. I certainly disagree. This is not an attempt to grab marketshare from the cryptospace, although I agree that this will gather some marketshare away from some cryptocoins.

However, this occurrence is only a natural move from using old technologies to using the new technologies available to make real world assets more accessible and also to gather more liquidity. I have created a thread asking if real world assets similar to stocks will be the next big storyline 2 years before. It appears that this is becoming a real occurrence hehehe.

[pooya87]

This is the brand new way of raising funds by selling gullible people something completely useless. They have been doing this for years, and more easily ever since these token creation platforms like ethereum were introduced. They just keep changing the name of the garbage they sell people and it supposed goal.
ICO, IEO, STO, DeFi, NFT, .... all of it are the same thing. The creator makes a ton of money while the gamblers make bets on the price of these useless tokens an lose money in the long run.

[gunhell16]

I believe that those who are used to buying stocks will definitely continue to buy stock assets whenever they see an opportunity.
And for those interested in altcoins, I think they will do the same thing, in my opinion.

But for me, I will still buy or invest in crypto assets where I have complete confidence that they can truly provide a decent profit in the future
within the crypto space.

[Taskford]

This is the brand new way of raising funds by selling gullible people something completely useless. They have been doing this for years, and more easily ever since these token creation platforms like ethereum were introduced. They just keep changing the name of the garbage they sell people and it supposed goal.
ICO, IEO, STO, DeFi, NFT, .... all of it are the same thing. The creator makes a ton of money while the gamblers make bets on the price of these useless tokens an lose money in the long run.

Then there are gullible individual think that there's a new trend on which they can easily earn money that's why these people buy those tokens and repeat the whole cycle which they will end up again losing.

Creators really make tons of money from these people and they should realize that investors take to much risk while the devs are just making them as their stepping stone to get easy richest.

Hopefully they stop believing on those crowdfunding things you have mentioned and be vigilant to what other thing came out so that they can avoid losing their money. Much better for them to buy top alts or Buy Bitcoin directly then HODL.

[Hispo]

When I see news about these tokenized stocks and the fact they are going to allow people to trade on real companies 24/7 non-stop, the only thing which comes to my mind is how this is going to turn into a huge opportunity for many to perform arbitrage between the difference of value of actual stocks and these tokens which are supposed to be pegged to those stocks being sold and bought on wall street.

I expect one of these markets to have less liquidity than the other, so prices are going to move at different speeds. If I had access to stocks, I would try to perform some arbitrage and pocket some money

[Iamcrypticguy]

Crypto firms like Robinhood, Gemini, and Kraken are now launching stock-linked tokens, digital assets that track real companies like Tesla or Apple. The market already hit $400M in just a year, fueled by Trump’s pro-crypto stance and hopes for 24/7 trading and instant settlement.

The problem is, most of these tokens don’t actually give you ownership or voting rights, they only copy the movement of real stock prices, making them more like synthetic bets than true shares. And if the company behind them goes under, investors could end up with nothing.

So what do you think, are tokenized stocks the next big step in investing, or just another risky trend disguised as innovation?


[1] Crypto Firms’ Rush to Launch Stock-Linked Tokens Raises Alarm Bells Among Regulators

A growing number of crypto firms are rushing to issue tokens tied to real-world stocks, igniting concerns among regulators and Wall Street giants who warn that the unregulated market could expose investors to hidden risks.

Key Takeaways:

Major crypto firms like Robinhood, Gemini, and Kraken are launching tokenized stock trading.

Many of these tokens lack ownership or voting rights, exposing investors to counterparty risks.

Advocates argue regulated tokenization could improve transparency, efficiency, and access in traditional markets.

It's the same as trading these stocks on brokers, but with exchange it's easier imo with less risk.. for example, on Bitget I participated in one of their RWA events recently and got around 1 TSLA for trading stocks on futures .
. Found it fun and quite easy, didn't know I was setting myself up to be rewarded ahah.. since they upgraded to a UEX, it's been smooth.. anyways I'll keep trading and try to keep up with the ongoing opportunity to bag NVDA here