ARK Invest: Tokenized Stock Trading Volume Reaches $50B

ARK Invest’s Q3 DeFi report attributed $50 billion in tokenized stock trading volume to onchain venues, a figure that, if accurate, would mark one of the largest single-quarter throughput readings for blockchain-based equity instruments and signals accelerating institutional appetite for bringing traditional asset exposure into permissionless settlement rails. ARK Invest’s Q3 DeFi report cited $50 billion in tokenized stock trading volume processed across onchain venues during the quarter, framing the figure as evidence that demand for synthetic equity exposure via blockchain infrastructure has moved well beyond the experimental phase.