Tokenized stocks on Ethereum surge 170% in a year, now at $827M

Tokenized stocks on Ethereum just posted a monster year. The sector grew 170% year-over-year, hitting $827 million, according to data from Token Terminal shared by Cointelegraph. That's not a rounding-error niche anymore — it's real money sitting on a public blockchain.

The pitch behind tokenized equities is simple: wrap a traditional stock in a token and it can move 24/7, settle in seconds and slot into DeFi rails that never sleep. Ethereum, still the biggest smart-contract network by activity and value locked, is the natural place for that experiment to play out.

The 170% jump suggests demand is climbing fast, even as the overall market for tokenized real-world assets keeps expanding. Token Terminal's figure tracks what's actually deployed on Ethereum, per Cointelegraph — not promises or pilot programs.

Ethereum's framing as Wall Street's next home is the question now hanging over the number. Whether the growth curve holds will depend on whether tokenized stocks stay a crypto-native curiosity or start pulling in conventional brokerage money.

For now, the tape says one thing clearly: the category nearly tripled in a year on Ethereum. Watch this number.