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DeFi

It's happening - xStocks are coming to Monad.

@xStocksFi and the @MonadFoundation have joined forces to bring tokenized equities natively to the Monad Layer 1 blockchain. The partnership was announced jointly by @xStocksFi General Manage

AnonymousCryptoCompass newsroom
October 7, 2026
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It's happening - xStocks are coming to Monad.
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@xStocksFi and the @MonadFoundation have joined forces to bring tokenized equities natively to the Monad Layer 1 blockchain. The partnership was announced jointly by @xStocksFi General Manager @valgui and the Monad Foundation's Joanita Titan, signalling a significant step forward for real-world asset (RWA) adoption on $MON.

1,100+ Tokenized Stocks Coming to Monad

Under the agreement, xStocks will deploy natively on Monad, bringing support for more than 1,100 tokenized equities to the chain. That is a substantial catalogue for any single integration. Each tokenized stock is a blockchain-based token that represents the economic value of a specific underlying share or ETF, held 1:1 in custody by a regulated institution, settling in seconds rather than the next business day and available in fractional amounts.

xStocks are issued through a compliant legal structure and are designed to function as blockchain-native instruments that integrate with wallets, exchanges, and DeFi protocols, and are currently available natively across a range of EVM-compatible networks. Monad is set to become the latest and, by equity count, one of the most expansive additions to that list.

xStocks has now reached 400,000 unique holders, with 150,000 new holders added in the past two weeks alone, as the platform pushes its stated mission of providing global access to worldwide equities and ETFs through tokenization.

Why Monad?

Monad entered 2026 as a high-performance, EVM-compatible Layer 1 with growing activity across its ecosystem.The chain targets 10,000+ TPS through MonadBFT consensus, parallel execution, and a custom MonadDB state database, while maintaining full EVM compatibility.As of July 2026, DefiLlama reported approximately $750 million in TVL on Monad, supporting lending, trading, and yield markets at greater scale.

For xStocks, deploying on Monad offers access to a fast-growing DeFi ecosystem and a high-throughput environment suited to the demands of equity-linked token trading. For Monad, landing a platform with over 1,100 tokenized equities and hundreds of thousands of holders is exactly the kind of substantive RWA integration that could help distinguish the chain from competing Layer 1s.

Whether this proves to be the catalyst that defines a broader Monad season remains to be seen, but the partnership adds real weight to the chain's growing ecosystem ambitions.

Sources:xStocks official news and announcementsxStocks protocol documentationBackpack Exchange: Monad ecosystem and TVL analysis