Tokenized equities reach $9B in onchain trading volume this year, up 800% from January

The stock market used to have opening and closing bells. Tokenized equities are making those bells increasingly irrelevant. Onchain trading volume for tokenized equities has hit $9 billion year-to-date in 2026, according to Blockworks data. That’s an 800% increase from roughly $1 billion at the start of the year. Perhaps more telling than the raw volume: 55% of that trading activity is happening outside traditional US market hours. The platforms driving the boom July 2026 alone set a single-month record of $11.3 billion in tokenized equity trading volume. Binance’s bStocks platform accounted for roughly 83% of July’s volume, or about $9.41 billion. The bulk of that was driven by trades of a tokenized QQQ ETF. On the decentralized side, Jupiter on Solana has emerged as a key venue for after-hours trading. Solana’s broader ecosystem has been a major beneficiary. Cumulative onchain equity transfer volumes on the network surpassed $10 billion by the end of June 2026. In the first half of the year alone, Solana processed $4.9 billion in tokenized equity volume, representing a 6x increase from the second half of 2025. Market cap tells the same story The total market capitalization of tok...