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– BounceBit has announced plans to offer users tokenized stocks by the fourth quarter of 2025.

The announcement follows Robinhood’s launch of tokenized stock trading in the EU, as the platforms seek to give traders more options for investing in the onchain.

BounceBit, backed by Binance-linked YZ i Labs, said on Wednesday it will offer users tokenized shares by the fourth quarter.

“The idea is simple: take real public market assets and make them instantly available online,

said BounceBit in a post on Platform X. “There will be coverage of securities from four major stock markets: the U.S., Europe, Hong Kong and Japan”. BounceBit follows Robinhood’s introduction of tokenized equity trading in the EU this week as part of a general trend for platforms to offer traders equity investments on the onchain, a relatively untapped segment of the real-asset (RWA) sector that many believe has huge growth potential.

Some companies already offer traders outside the U.S. the ability to invest in digital tokens tracking popular stocks such as Tesla, Apple and Nvidia. Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken said in May that it would soon offer onchain versions of popular U.S. stocks.

Kraken Co-CEO Arjun Sethi told The Block in April that the market for tokenized stocks will surpass the stablecoin sector. The supply of tokens pegged to the U.S. dollar currently stands at more than $240 billion and is expected to grow significantly after the passage of the U.S. Stable Coin Act.

BounceBit said its onchain-based stock offerings will be implemented in its own Tokenized Stock Environment. “What stablecoins have done for FX, tokenized stocks will do for global public markets, the trading platform said in a statement on X.