📰 Coinbase stock tokens cumulative trading volume exceeded $1.02 billion—looks lively, but that doesn’t mean the market always has enough funds ready to absorb big sell orders. Tests on September 23 showed that on the Base chain, 10 stock tokens each carried out a simulated sell of roughly $100,000. The estimated proceeds were 0.06% to 0.71% lower than KyberSwap’s token valuation.
🔥 The gap isn’t as noticeable with smaller orders. When the trade size per token is about $10,000, the sell quote bid-ask spread is only 0.01% to 0.12%; but once you scale up to $100,000, the spread generally widens. Honestly, being able to quote a price and being able to continuously sell at that price are two different things.
💡 At the time of the test, the combined on-book balances of 10 core Aerodrome stock / USDC liquidity pools totaled about $12.97 million. Individual pools ranged from about $818,700 to about $2.11 million. But these balances include both stock tokens and USDC, so they can’t be directly treated as cash available to absorb sell volume.
👀 What’s more troublesome is that when U.S. stock markets are closed, the tokens can still trade on-chain, and Chainlink oracle price feeds can keep the prior trading day’s price. Ordinary holders don’t have primary redemption rights. How much can be sold after hours and what the final trade price will be largely depends on liquidity providers in the secondary market. If incentives drop and capital withdraws, or if individual-stock news breaks during the market closure, quotes can change rapidly.
🤔 So, does $1 billion in trading volume reflect genuine absorption, or is it just cumulative “liveliness” from historical trades? If you were the one making the decision, would you hold these kinds of stock tokens when U.S. stocks are closed?
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