Ondo Introduces Direct Stock-to-Tokenized-Share Conversion for Institutions
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Ondo has launched a service that allows institutional investors to convert traditional stocks directly into tokenized shares on blockchain infrastructure. The offering is aimed at bridging traditional finance and decentralized finance by enabling seamless movement between conventional equities and their tokenized equivalents.
WHY IT MATTERS
Imagine you own shares of a company through a traditional brokerage. Those shares exist in a conventional financial system with specific trading hours, settlement times, and intermediaries. Tokenization is the process of creating a digital version of that share on a blockchain — a kind of shared digital ledger. This could potentially allow those shares to be transferred or used in new ways, such as around-the-clock trading or as collateral in decentralized finance (DeFi) applications. Ondo's new service is designed to let large investors move between the traditional stock world and the tokenized world more directly. For someone new to crypto, this is an example of how blockchain technology is being applied beyond cryptocurrencies to traditional financial assets like stocks.
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