Tokenized equities, one of the fastest-growing areas of overlap between traditional finance and the crypto market, could expand from $4.43 billion to $349 billion by 2030 under the base scenario set out by Binance Research. Binance chief executive Richard Teng highlighted the figures in a post on X.

The projection comes from the research arm of Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, and points to a sharp increase in the scale of blockchain-based stock products over the next several years.

Tokenization — the issuance of blockchain tokens representing ownership of real-world assets such as stocks, bonds, and funds — has moved from concept to commercial deployment in recent years. BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, launched its tokenized fund BUIDL on Ethereum in March 2024, and tokenized US Treasury products have since developed into a multi-billion-dollar market segment. Trading venues including Robinhood, Kraken, and Bybit have also rolled out tokenized stock offerings in selected jurisdictions, while regulators in the United States, the European Union, and Asia have begun examining how existing securities frameworks apply to on-chain instruments.

Proponents of tokenized equities cite potential advantages such as continuous trading, fractional ownership, and faster settlement, although the market remains small next to global public equity markets, which are collectively valued in the tens of trillions of dollars. Binance Research's base case implies a significant expansion of the segment by the end of the decade — roughly an eightyfold increase from the $4.43 billion starting point.

The path toward that figure remains tied to questions the article's backdrop makes visible: regulators in the United States, the European Union, and Asia are still examining how securities frameworks apply to on-chain instruments, and tokenized stock offerings remain available only in selected jurisdictions. How those examinations are resolved and how widely access expands are concrete developments to monitor as the 2030 horizon approaches.

Source: COINOTAG