Most Tokenized Stock Trading Happens Outside U.S. Market Hours, IMF Finds

What happened

The fund's study of Ondo and xStocks tokens found most trades are for less than one share, and their overnight moves show up in the real stocks minutes after the open. stocks happens while Wall Street is closed, according to new data from the International Monetary Fund .

The figure comes from the tokenization (representing an asset as a tradable entry on a blockchain) chapter of the IMF’s Global Financial Stability Report , which the fund released on Oct. Market Hours, IMF Finds appeared first on Unchained .

More than half of all trading in tokenized U.S. Titled “Scaling Tokenization: New Efficiencies, New Vulnerabilities,” the chapter puts the tokenized equity market at about $2.3 billion as of July 31, a small slice of roughly $65 billion in publicly tokenized real-world assets outside of repo.

Key facts

• The fund's study of Ondo and xStocks tokens — found: most trades are for less than one share, and their overnight moves show up in the real stocks minutes after the open