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    3. 2026 Mid-Year Report on Onchain RWA: Tokenized Stock Market Value Doubles in a Year, but 90% of Rights are Shells

    2026 Mid-Year Report on Onchain RWA: Tokenized Stock Market Value Doubles in a Year, but 90% of Rights are Shells

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    Original Title: The State of Onchain Real-World Assets in Mid-2026

    Original Author: insights4vc

    Original Compilation: Deep Tide TechFlow

    Deep Tide Introduction: The scale of onchain tokenized assets looks impressive, but it hides a fundamental contradiction—products that can circulate freely often lack real ownership, while products with genuine legal validity lack liquidity. This report dissects how much of this "$1.89 billion market" is real money, making it a must-read for any investor considering entering the onchain securities space.

    The stock market has not moved onchain. What has emerged is a more reliable infrastructure layer—used for distributing securities, recording ownership claims, and completing transaction settlements through blockchain-based systems.

    Data from RWA.xyz shows that the value of distributed tokenized stocks grew from $951 million in March 2026 to $1.89 billion in July, nearly doubling. However, this growth primarily came from a few products and platforms.

    The most significant progress came from regulated market infrastructure, particularly the same CUSIP settlement model used by Nasdaq and the commercial rollout in the DTC program. Liquidity, investor distribution, and independent onchain price discovery mechanisms remain very limited. Tokenized government bonds continue to show a stronger product-market fit, while stock ETFs may scale more easily than individual stocks.

    Thus, this market is best understood as a divided "Layer 2.5" system: products with the most solid legal foundations often have the weakest liquidity and distribution capabilities; while packaged products that are most actively traded usually have the weakest ownership rights.

    This report is an update to insights4vc's March 2026 analysis of "The State of Onchain Real-World Assets," focusing on substantial changes since its release.

    The State of Onchain Real-World Assets

    What Substantial Changes Occurred After March

    The March report distinguished between two types of assets: those recorded on the blockchain and those that can be transferred to external wallets. This distinction remains important. Within the framework of RWA.xyz, "represented assets" stay within the issuer's or platform's environment; "distributed assets" can be transferred externally, although transfers may still be limited to approved or whitelisted wallets.

    However, transferability alone is no longer sufficient to judge a product's maturity.

    Since March, offshore products have become more convenient for cross-chain flow and use in decentralized markets. Ondo has expanded to Ethereum, BNB Chain, and Solana, introducing decentralized routing and adding continuous minting and redemption features for some products. xStocks has also expanded its distribution channels and collateral integration.

    Meanwhile, regulated U.S. infrastructure has taken a different path: focusing not on unrestricted portability but on legal certainty, controlled wallets, compliant custody, transfer agent records, and integration with DTC.

    Figure: Evolution of Various RWA Asset Values from 2019 to 2026 (including tokenized stocks, government bonds, etc.)

    These two paths address different issues: offshore packaged products enhance accessibility and combinability; regulated infrastructure strengthens the connection between tokens and legal ownership claims.

    "Canonical shares" are the basic securities authorized by the issuer, whose transfer is recognized in the official ownership system. They are fundamentally different from third-party tools that only track stock prices or performance.

    Currently, no product has simultaneously achieved all four elements at scale: standard ownership, widespread wallet distribution, institutional liquidity, and independent onchain price discovery.

    Figure: Summary Statistics of Onchain Real-World Assets (As of July 28, totaling approximately $36.78 billion, with U.S. government bonds accounting for 43.95%)

    More macro RWA total data also needs to be interpreted cautiously. RWA.xyz reported on July 29 that the distributed value was $36.81 billion, and the represented value was $218.27 billion. The represented value appears to have decreased by $12.43 billion, which should not be interpreted as capital outflow or a redemption wave. Between the two observation dates, a large number of datasets underwent additions, deletions, reclassifications, or revaluations.

    These figures describe the equity value covered by the platform's methodology at specific points in time, rather than a measure of investor capital flow.

    The series of tokenized stocks is more valuable for reference, as the same "bridge token value" methodology can be applied to both periods. Even so, the reported 98.5% increase cannot be clearly broken down into new issuances, price increases, and classification adjustments.

    FGRS provides a useful example. Figure completed a fundraising of 4.375 million blockchain shares at $32 per share, but the reported value subsequently changed with market prices. Without daily minting, burning, and net asset value data for each product, it is impossible to reliably reconstruct the net issuance across the entire market.

    Why the $1.88 Billion Headline Figure is Misleading

    RWA.xyz uses "bridge token value" to measure tokenized stocks, calculated as: bridge circulating supply multiplied by net asset value.

    The circulating supply excludes balances identified as treasury holdings or pre-minted inventory. The bridge figure also excludes tokens locked in known bridge contracts to avoid double counting an asset locked on one network and issued on another.

    This is an effective measure of distributed value, but it differs from free-floating shares. Free-floating shares refer to the portion of securities that are genuinely available for public trading after excluding restricted positions, strategic holdings, and concentrated holdings.

    The timing of the data is also crucial. The provided asset-level export data shows that the total distributed value on July 27 was $1.8879 billion, aligning with the approximately $1.88 billion displayed on the dashboard. The snapshot on July 29 across platforms and networks totaled about $1.872 billion.

    The difference of $15.8 million accounts for 0.84%, consistent with the changes in price and token supply between the two observation dates. Therefore, the growth calculations for specific tools in this report use data from July 27, while platform and network market shares use the snapshot from July 29, with the two datasets not mixed in the same calculation.

    Figure: Details of Tokenized Stocks (10 underlying assets, categorized by issuing platform and network, with FGRS highest at approximately $191 million)

    Three named tools contributed about half of the incremental increase: SECZ added $169 million post-listing, FGRS added $162.9 million, and STRCx added $126.6 million. Together, they contributed $458.6 million, accounting for 49% of the total increment of $936.8 million. Long-tail products contributed another $150.5 million, accounting for 16.1% of the increment.

    These figures reflect changes in distributed value, not investor subscription amounts.

    SECZ is influenced by both the number of representative shares and the stock price of Securitize on the NYSE. FGRS reflects a comprehensive view of issuance, conversion activity, and market price changes. STRCx depends on the circulating supply and value of certificates linked to Strategy floating-rate preferred shares.

    Grouping the above three growths as "inflows into tokenized stocks" would merge several economically distinct events into a single potentially misleading figure.

    Concentration is more evident at the platform level. In the snapshot on July 29, Ondo and xStocks together accounted for 72.7% of distributed value. Including Securitize, the share of the top three platforms rises to 85.1%.

    Figure: RWA.xyz Platform Rankings—Ondo (45.21%), xStocks (27.51%), Securitize (12.40%) in the top three

    The distribution across cross-blockchain networks is more decentralized, but this does not eliminate the underlying common dependencies. Ethereum leads with a 36.2% value share, followed by Solana (19.6%) and BNB Chain (15.8%). Provenance and Avalanche are primarily driven by Figure and Securitize, respectively.

    Products issued on different networks may still rely on the same packaging issuer, broker, custodian, securities agent, or reference price provider.

    Figure: RWA.xyz Network Rankings—Ethereum (36.24%), Solana (19.63%), BNB Chain (15.82%) in the top three

    This market has expanded in breadth, but it remains legally ununified. Multiple tokens can reference Apple Inc. stock or the S&P 500 ETF simultaneously, but they are each independent legal liabilities, subject to different jurisdictions and relying on different intermediaries.

    Bridge adjustments can prevent the same token from being double-counted across different networks, but they cannot—and should not—merge products that reference similar assets yet provide substantively different legal rights together.

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