Real-World Assets

Robinhood

2026-08-24 04:18:07

Robinhood Co-Founder Says Stock-Linked Meme Tokens Have Gone Beyond the Company’s Expectations

Robinhood co-founder Vlad Tenev said developers building on-chain around the company’s ecosystem have created liquidity pools and protocols that went beyond what Robinhood originally expected. Speaking on the podcast The Iced Coffee Hour, Tenev said these structures combine meme coins, core crypto assets, and tokenized stocks in ways the company had not initially envisioned. He described meme coins as serving as an "entry point" or a "reward mechanism" that links users to real stock tokens. Tenev also outlined a broader goal for Robinhood: lifting the share of U.S. households that own stocks from around 50% before Robinhood emerged to roughly 65%, and eventually to more than 95%. In his view, tokenization is a key tool for making high-quality U.S. equities and other real-world assets easier to distribute globally. The comments came as Binance founder CZ also weighed in on X. He said stock-crypto meme experiments were "fresh and interesting," while adding that issuers need to be able to fulfill their obligations.

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BlackRock

2026-08-18 16:33:50

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Calls Tokenization the Next Generation of Markets

According to Forbes, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink described tokenization as "the next generation for markets," adding to signs that large traditional finance institutions are taking blockchain-based market infrastructure more seriously. Fink said that after roughly a decade of hype, several false starts, and a series of promising pilot programs, mainstream financial firms are now making a serious push to bring real-world assets on-chain. His remarks point to a shift in how major asset managers view tokenization: not as a niche experiment, but as a market structure development tied to issuance, trading, and settlement. As institutions step up efforts to move tokenized asset projects from pilot stages toward broader real-world use, the field is moving beyond proof-of-concept and into practical deployment at a larger scale.

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Robinhood

2026-08-08 14:12:46

Robinhood Chain Hits $800M TVL, 200M Transactions in First Month

Just over a month after its launch, Robinhood Chain has attracted close to $800 million in total value locked and processed more than 200 million transactions. Johann Kerbrat, who leads crypto at Robinhood, said the team chose an Ethereum layer-2 network to lean on existing security and decentralization while focusing resources on product development. The network is part of Robinhood's push to bring brokerage services on-chain and supports roughly 200 tokenized stocks, real-world assets, stablecoin lending and borrowing, and perpetual futures. Kerbrat also described developer activity as an important adoption metric. He said the network will support meme coins alongside financial products to serve user demand and provide liquidity, targeting people who have never used crypto before rather than competing for users already active on other chains.

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Robinhood Cha

2026-07-25 10:00:00

Robinhood Chain’s RWA footprint jumps fivefold as tokenized stock trading scales up

Robinhood Chain, the network built to bring equities onchain, is seeing a sharp rise in real-world asset activity, according to CoinDesk. The report says the chain’s real-world assets have increased fivefold, while the network itself has tripled in size since mid-July. Trading volume in tokenized equities is also picking up: a dozen tokenized stocks are now each clearing $500,000 in daily volume. That points to larger trade sizes and a broader buildout in onchain equity activity on the network. Even so, the chain’s overall composition has not fully shifted toward tokenized traditional assets. Memecoins and stablecoins still account for the dominant share of activity on Robinhood Chain, showing that speculative crypto-native assets and dollar-pegged tokens remain the main drivers of usage for now. The article was written by Shaurya Malwa and edited by Aoyon Ashraf, and was published by CoinDesk on July 25, 2026.

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Robinhood Cha

2026-07-25 10:04:22

Tokenized real-world assets on Robinhood Chain climb to about $70 million in under two weeks

Tokenized real-world assets on Robinhood Chain have grown to about $70 million, marking an increase of roughly fivefold in less than two weeks, according to a report cited by Odaily from CoinDesk. The rise came as tokenized stocks began to reach meaningful trading scale on the chain, pushing the size of related assets higher at the same time. Data in the report shows that 12 tokenized stocks have each recorded at least $500,000 in single-day trading volume. Names mentioned include GameStop, Nvidia and SpaceX, while some tokenized stock products posted more than $1 million in daily volume. Robinhood Chain’s total value locked has also climbed to about $312 million, around three times its previous level. Even so, activity on the chain is still led by stablecoin and meme coin trading, with real-world asset transactions accounting for only part of the recent increase.

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XRP

2026-07-24 09:50:19

XRP Reclaims $1.43 as Ripple Eyes Deutsche Bank Deal and XRPL Real-World Assets Surge

XRP climbs back near $1.43, driven by Ripple’s potential Deutsche Bank partnership, XRPL RWA value overtaking Solana, RLUSD surpassing $1B issuance, and $4.05M in spot ETF inflows.

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Aave

2026-07-24 04:40:19

Aave V4 Targets $4.6 Trillion Securities Lending Market With Tokenized Stocks

Aave plans to expand beyond crypto lending through Aave V4, using tokenized stocks for securities-backed loans, securities lending, and onchain repo-style transactions.

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B3

2026-07-24 04:23:36

Brazil’s B3 completes its first tokenized livestock financing deal

Brazilian stock exchange B3 has completed its first tokenized livestock financing transaction, using 10 sensor-equipped dairy cows as blockchain-verified collateral for a farm loan. The loan totaled 100,000 Brazilian reais, while the collateral was valued at 120,000 reais. Cowmed supplied the monitoring technology, BMP Sociedade de Crédito Direto originated the credit, and Target FIDC handled receivables registration. B3 said it plans to launch an integrated tokenization platform and a Brazilian real-pegged stablecoin in 2026. According to CryptoBriefing, the transaction is being treated as a proof of concept for the broader tokenization market tied to real-world assets.

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