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Tokenized Stocks Are Moving Off the Whiteboard: What the $5 Trillion Thesis Now Has Behind It

6/19/2026

Three concrete developments — a quantified institutional thesis, rising derivatives volumes, and a DTCC settlement announcement — have moved tokenized equities from a thought experiment toward a credible near-term build.

Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo told an ETHConf panel that on-chain migration of just 2–3% of the roughly $150 trillion global equities and ETF market could create a $5 trillion tokenized opportunity.

The on-chain data, for once, is starting to back the pitch.

What Tokenized Stocks Actually Are A tokenized stock is a programmable representation of an equity claim, restricted by compliance logic embedded in a smart contract.