Stock ownership is starting to move onto public blockchains. Instead of holding shares through a brokerage account, investors can now hold a digital token that represents the same ownership.
What is a tokenized stock?
A tokenized stock is a digital token that represents ownership of a real share of stock. The token is backed by the underlying security, so the investor's ownership does not change, only the way it is held and moved.
Tokenized stocks vs. traditional stocks
How tokenized stocks are built
The bigger picture
For everyday investors, tokenized stocks mean the shares they already own or want to own could soon move with the speed and flexibility of any other digital asset, without changing what those shares actually are.
For the crypto industry, it means public equities are becoming one more asset class built directly into the infrastructure that already runs the stock market, rather than something crypto had to build around.