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Tokenised equities see fastest holder growth in on-chain real-world assets
CoinShares data cited by ETF Trends shows about $2.2B in tokenised equity exposure on-chain, while tokenised real-world asset deposits rose to $7.4B over Q2 2025 to Q2 2026 as crypto ecosystem volumes fell.
Tokenised equities are the fastest-growing on-chain real-world asset category by holder count, CoinShares data cited by ETF Trends shows, even as tokenised equities remain small relative to the overall global equity market, which is above $100T.
ETF Trends notes that roughly $2.2B of equity exposure has been tokenised on-chain, but argues the key signal is usage. A claim that can be transferred can be posted as collateral, traded against other assets, or used for leveraged exposure without returning to the issuer, turning issuance into the easy part and usage into the test.
According to the CoinShares and Token Terminal analysis described by ETF Trends, between Q2 2025 and Q2 2026 total crypto asset deposits fell by about 15%, while real-world asset deposits across lending platforms and decentralized exchanges rose from $2.3B to $7.4B.
ETF Trends further says that on spot decentralized exchanges aggregate volumes fell about 70% while real-world asset spot volumes rose about 220% from a smaller base. It attributes tokenised equity holder growth to lower minimum investment sizes that broaden access, with on-chain yields cited at roughly 3.2% to 5.5% across tokenised products.