eToro to tokenize 100 most popular US stocks on Ethereum

Trading and investing level eToro has announced plans to motorboat tokenized US stocks arsenic ERC-20 tokens connected the Ethereum blockchain.

The upcoming rollout volition see the 100 astir fashionable US-listed stocks and ETFs, tradable 24/5 arsenic blockchain-based assets, the institution said connected Tuesday.

According to eToro, users volition yet beryllium capable to transportation tokenized stocks disconnected the level into self-custody oregon DeFi protocols. “Yes—that is 100% the nonsubjective here,” a spokesperson told Cointelegraph.

“Users tin bargain a tokenized banal connected eToro, redeem it to the eToro wallet and from determination to their ain wallet, etc.—and past bring it backmost to eToro if they privation to.”

“Tokenization removes boundaries, providing transparency and control. It has the imaginable to democratize finance, making assets much accessible to much people,” said Yoni Assia, the CEO and co-founder of eToro. The institution has been progressive successful the tokenization of RWA assets for immoderate time. In 2019, it launched tokenized versions of golden and silver.

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RWA tokenization afloat steam ahead

The determination from eToro to tokenize stocks comes as the onboarding of real-world assets connected blockchain rails continues to gain steam.  

On June 30, 2025, Robinhood launched a new layer-2 blockchain built connected Arbitrum to tokenize US stocks. The caller L-2 gives European investors entree to implicit 200 stocks and ETF tokens, with zero commissions and tradeable 24/5. 

Also astatine the extremity of June, Backed Finance, a Switzerland-based tokenized RWA issuer, launched implicit 60 tokenized stocks connected ByBit, Kraken, and crossed assorted Solana DeFi protocols. The stocks see bluish chips similar Netflix, Meta, Tesla, and Amazon and crypto firms similar Coinbase.

The “xStocks” are presently unavailable successful the US oregon different prohibited jurisdictions.

Source: RWA.xyz

Tokenized stocks inactive correspond a tiny information of the full tokenized RWA market. According to information from RWA.xyz, stocks onchain relationship for $418 cardinal successful full value, portion the full RWA marketplace exceeds $21.3 cardinal astatine this writing.

With a comparatively debased marketplace cap, galore judge tokenized stocks person plentifulness of country for growth. At the TokenizeThis league successful New York, STOKR’s CEO, Arnab Naskar, said that portion the marketplace is hard to predict, it is “definitely a bigger trillion-dollar market.”

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