Three Signals to Watch as Solana Pushes 24/7 Tokenized Stock Trading

Tokenized stocks may give Solana a real-world use case, but network activity alone does not guarantee stronger SOL demand. Solana is gaining attention as tokenized stocks bring trading onto the blockchain outside traditional market hours, with CryptoRus pointing to after-hours activity and more than 727,000 holders as signs to watch. But the bigger question is whether that usage can spread across Solana’s network and eventually show up in SOL’s price. Solana’s After-Hours Stock Market Faces a Token Test CryptoRus argues that tokenized equities give crypto a practical use case because markets can keep trading after Wall Street closes. Solana says 63% of tokenized-equity activity on its network came after the closing bell, while the number of holders has passed 727,000. That does not, by itself, prove lasting demand for SOL. As the analysis account puts it, “The decision now is whether Solana’s activity becomes durable network growth, and whether SOL’s chart begins to reflect it.” One way to test that broader story is through chain TVL, or the value held across decentralized applications on a network. Solana’s TVL was up 6.6% to $5.86 billion, compared with Ethereum at $49.97 billion...