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Recently, have you also been inundated with news about 'CRS tightening and the recovery of taxes on Hong Kong and U.S. stocks'? Does it feel like your overseas investments are suddenly 'exposed'?
The full implementation of CRS (Common Reporting Standard) signifies that global tax information transparency is an inevitable trend. The era of 'invisible' cross-border investment benefits has ended.

So, how can we safely and compliantly carry out global asset allocation?
An increasingly popular concept has come into view: RWA (Real World Assets on the blockchain).
In simple terms, RWA refers to the process of transferring real-world assets such as stocks and bonds onto the blockchain through legitimate and compliant structures for digital holding.

The boundary between traditional finance (TradFi) and DeFi just got significantly thinner. As someone who spends most of my time in the $TON ecosystem, the recent arrival of xStocks on STON.fi feels like a "lightbulb moment" for how we’ll manage wealth in the future.

If you’ve ever tried to buy U.S. tech stocks from outside the States, you probably have experienced it:

• Complex KYC that takes days to approve.

• Market hours that force you to stay up late (or wake up early).

• High brokerage fees and the lack of "true" ownership if the platform goes down.

On STON.fi, you can now swap for tokenized versions of NVDA, AAPL, TSLA, META, and GOOGL as easily as you swap for $STON or $TON .

These aren't just "synthetic" price trackers; they are xStocks issued by Backed Finance (a regulated entity) and backed 1:1 by the actual underlying assets. Plus, with Kraken recently acquiring Backed Finance, there is a serious level of institutional weight behind the infrastructure.

Why This Strategy Works 
1. 24/7 Liquidity is the Ultimate Edge: Traditional markets close on weekends and holidays. With xStocks on a DEX, if there’s major news on a Sunday night regarding Tesla, you don't have to wait for the Monday morning "gap up" or "gap down." You can react instantly in the TON ecosystem.

2. Seamless Portfolio Rebalancing: Usually, if I want to move crypto gains into "safer" blue-chip stocks, I have to off-ramp to fiat, transfer to a broker, and buy. Now? I can swap my $USDT directly for $NVDAx or $AAPLx without leaving my wallet. It’s the ultimate "all-in-one" financial dashboard.

3. The Power of Self-Custody: The assets stay in your TON wallet. You aren't leaving them on a centralized exchange or at a traditional brokerage where you're just a line in a database. You hold the Jetton; you hold the claim.

However, due to regulatory compliance, xStocks are not available to residents of the US, UK, Canada, Australia, or the EU/EEA. This is a product built for the "rest of the world" where access to U.S. markets is often restricted or inefficient.
$BTC $ETH #STONfi #xStocks #TON #TokenizedAssests #DeFi

Imagine that you can take out a loan by mortgaging not bitcoin or ether, but tokenized Apple shares like AAPLx. It's real now: the Solana-based Kamino decentralized protocol has become the first major DeFi project to accept tokenized shares (xStocks) as collateral.

What does it mean? Kamino uses xStocks— on-chain versions of real stocks created by Backed Finance. These tokens are backed 1:1 by real securities held by the custodians. For example, xAAPL fully corresponds to the actual Apple stock. They can be traded 24/7 on the blockchain, split into pieces and now used in DeFi credit products.

Kamino has integrated support for these tokens through the new xStocks Market, where you can borrow stablecoins secured by xAAPL. In the future, it is planned to add other promotions such as xTSLA and xMSFT. All of this is based on the Chainlink standard, which ensures data reliability and market transparency.

This brings DeFi closer to "traditional finance" (TradFi), but with the key advantages of blockchain: transparency, accessibility, and speed. Such steps make the on-chain infrastructure competitive against centralized exchanges like Kraken and Bybit, which are already testing xStocks in their ecosystems.

However, it's not that simple. Regulators are still wary of tokenized securities. SEC Commissioner Hester Pierce recalled that "tokenized securities are still securities." And OpenAI even condemned the Robinhood project for trying to issue on-chain versions of private shares without the approval of issuers.

Nevertheless, Kamino is moving forward — their goal is to create a platform where you can freely trade assets, take out loans or engage in margin trading, entirely on the blockchain.

And so I have a question for you.:
Would you pledge a tokenized share to take out a loan in DeFi? Or don't you trust such assets yet?
#defi #solana #Kamino #sol #xStocks

According Foresight News, at #Solana Breakpoint, xStocks @xStocksFi announced three major updates: the launch of X-Bridge, a Chainlink CCIP–powered cross-chain bridge enabling multi-chain asset flow; a new composable product ecosystem, including deeper liquidity and the on-chain “MAG-7” style Lore MAG-7 fund; and a partnership with Telegram Wallet to reach traditional finance users.

#xStocks

📅 August 20 | San Francisco, USA
The crypto giant Kraken is shaking up the scene again with an unexpected move: its tokenized stock platform, known as xStocks, has just expanded to the Tron (TRX) blockchain. The alliance with Backed, the Swiss firm specializing in tokenized assets, had already consolidated operations on Ethereum and Polygon, but now adds Tron to open access to investors in one of the most used ecosystems for global transfers.
The news strengthens the bridge between traditional markets and cryptocurrencies, at a time when financial tokenization is growing rapidly.

📖 Kraken's xStocks initiative began as a hybrid investment experiment, offering users the ability to acquire tokenized stocks of real companies (such as Apple, Tesla, or Microsoft) directly on the blockchain, thanks to its partnership with Backed. Each token represents a security backed by an underlying asset, stored and regulated in Switzerland under the legal framework for digital securities.
Until now, the operation operated primarily on Ethereum and Polygon**, blockchains with high liquidity but also scalability and gas cost challenges. Therefore, the decision to incorporate Tron marks a strategic shift. With more than 2 million daily transactions and a leading role in stablecoins like USDT, Justin Sun's network has become a pillar of the movement for fast and cheap global transfers.
According to the details revealed, the expansion will allow Tron users to access an initial catalog of more than 100 tokenized stocks, from tech giants to index funds. The goal, in the words of Kraken and Backed, is to democratize access to traditional financial instruments through globally accessible blockchain infrastructures.
This move comes amid the tokenization boom: according to the Boston Consulting Group, the tokenized asset market could reach $16 trillion by 2030, including stocks, bonds, and real estate. Kraken seeks to position itself as one of the major players in this wave of convergence between Wall Street and the crypto ecosystem.
The Tron factor is no small feat: with a massive user base in Asia and Latin America, where banking restrictions drive the adoption of blockchain solutions, this integration could catapult xStocks to a new level of adoption.

Topic Opinion:
What's interesting is that it's not limited to Ethereum, but rather focuses on blockchains with high traction in global payments, like Tron.
💬 Would you use Tron to invest in Apple or Tesla directly from your wallet?

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#Kraken #Tron #xStocks #Tokenization #CryptoNewss $TRX

Recently, many people have been talking about 'on-chain US stocks', but what has always been truly important is not how to 'move stocks onto the chain'.
The real watershed is: whether there is a set of structures that can be accepted by the entire industry and can exist in the long term. Many on-chain US stock solutions have issues in that they remain at the stage of 'the concept is correct', which we refer to as talking big without action.
Recently, Kraken acquired BackedFi (xStocks) @xStocksFi, and in my opinion, this is a very clear signal: exchanges are also increasing their investment in on-chain US stocks, which is a very important aspect of RWA-Fi.