Uniswap leads with $82M in tokenized stock deposits as DeFi embraces traditional equities

Uniswap pulled in $82.8 million in tokenized stock deposits over the past 30 days, cementing itself as the go-to venue for anyone who wants to trade Apple and Tesla shares without ever touching a brokerage account. The protocol now holds 73% of all stock token deposits on Robinhood Chain, a Layer 2 network purpose-built for tokenized real-world assets. The broader tokenized stock DeFi market has reached roughly $192.6 million in total value locked. That means Uniswap alone accounts for nearly half of the entire sector’s liquidity. Where the deposits landed Uniswap’s V4 deployment absorbed the bulk of the inflows, pulling in $54.7 million. Its older V3 version captured another $28.1 million. As of early September, V4 led all protocols with $59.1 million in TVL for tokenized stocks, outpacing Kamino Lend on Solana at $41.7 million and Uniswap V3 at $20.9 million. V4 introduced “hooks,” programmable plugins that let developers customize how liquidity pools behave. For tokenized securities, that means pools can enforce KYC requirements, restrict access to verified wallets, or adjust fee structures, all without abandoning the permissionless architecture that made DeFi attractive in the ...