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Robinhood built a chain for tokenized stocks. The volume for those assets finally showed up, but it was memecoins that dragged it in.

Tokenized stocks on Robinhood Chain averaged $29.7 million in daily DEX volume over the past seven days, more than Solana's xStocks and Backpack's Sunrise combined. Tokenized Nvidia leads the chain at $13.9 million over the past day, followed by SpaceX at $6.2 million and Apple at $4.5 million.

But the mechanism is worth noting. Launch platforms Bankr and long.xyz began letting users mint memecoins collateralized by tokenized shares across more than 90 tickers, so every trade in a pair like Artificial Inu against NVDA generates stock-token volume and locks the deposited shares in the pool. Scale keeps the win narrow: Binance's bStocks cleared $676.8 million a day on BNB Chain over the same week, more than 20 times Robinhood's figure.

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WATCH [PARTNER]

Gold That Pays 3.5%: Tokenizing the $35 Trillion Commodities Market

Streamex CEO Henry McPhie makes the case for putting commodities onchain, from gold that pays a 3.5% yield to the custody and audit plumbing institutions want before they allocate. Watch the interview.

BLOCKCHAINS

Robinhood Chain Tops Solana in Tokenized Stock Volume Via Memecoin Pairs

Tokenized stocks on Robinhood Chain averaged $29.7 million in daily DEX volume over the past seven days, against $11.1 million on Solana's xStocks and $13.4 million on Backpack's Sunrise, per a Dune dashboard maintained by OKX's Web3 wallet team. Daily active stock-token traders on the chain peaked above 20,000 in the week of July 20, the highest of any venue the dashboard tracks. Real-world assets still carry about $81 million in active market value on the chain, next to $489 million in stablecoins.

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	Robinhood Chain Tops Solana in Tokenized Stock Volume Via Memecoin Pairs Tokenized stocks on Robinhood Chain averaged $29.7 million in daily DEX volume over the past seven days, more than Solana's xStocks and Backpack's Sunrise combined. thedefiant.io

Why this matters: Robinhood spent three weeks watching memecoins run its equities chain. Those same memecoin pairs are now the retail on-ramp tokenized-stock platforms have been hunting for years.

REGULATION

Franklin Templeton Backs CLARITY Act as Wall Street Coalition Grows

Franklin Templeton, which reported $1.79 trillion under management as of June 30, said on July 27 that it supports passage of the CLARITY Act, putting it alongside BlackRock, Fidelity, and Goldman Sachs. The four issued their endorsements separately. Senate Republicans released revised text on July 22 merging the Banking and Agriculture committees' work, splitting oversight between the SEC and CFTC and setting registration, disclosure, and customer-protection standards. No floor vote is scheduled.

Why this matters: Four of the largest asset managers now back the bill by name, and the Senate still has nothing on the calendar with the August recess days away.

NFTS AND WEB3

NFT Gacha Protocol Fake World Assets Trails Only Sky in Ethereum Daily Revenue

Fake World Assets, an Ethereum gacha protocol built by a two-developer team, pulled $447,604 in revenue on July 25, four days after relaunching, briefly passing Solana's Collector Crypt, per DefiLlama. Users deposit ETH-backed NFTs, including CryptoPunks as top prizes, and buyers pay for a randomized pull priced off the ETH backing each item. Collector Crypt has since retaken the daily lead. Fake World Assets still ranks second on Ethereum by 24-hour revenue, behind Sky's $464,303 and ahead of Aave, Uniswap, and Lido.

Why this matters: Two developers built the second-highest-revenue protocol on Ethereum in four days. Daily fees have already halved from the July 25 peak, and the emissions paying early users stop on day 15.

DEFI

1inch Commits 10M 1INCH, 500k USDC to Aqua LP Rewards

1inch opened its Aqua liquidity protocol to the public on July 28, backing it with 10 million 1INCH from its foundation and 500,000 USDC from the DAO in a three-month Merkl campaign across 13 EVM chains. Aqua quotes against a provider's wallet balance, so $100,000 can support three positions collectively quoting $300,000, with execution capped at what the wallet holds. Dune research 1inch commissioned found 85% of concentrated liquidity across major DEXs sat underutilized in the first half of 2026, roughly $1.6 billion of the $1.84 billion tracked.

Why this matters: Token emissions buy volume for as long as they run. The real test is whether quoting from wallets holds professional market makers once the 10 million 1INCH is spent.

INFRASTRUCTURE

Zama CEO Claims 1,000 Confidential Transfers Per Second on GPUs

Zama CEO Rand Hindi said the fully homomorphic encryption firm hit 1,000 confidential transfers per second on GPUs, up from 0.2 tps at its 2022 ETHcc demo, and put the cost near $0.000004 per ERC7984 transaction. The figures are self-reported, came without published test methodology, and run on no live network. Hindi said mainnet activation is planned for the end of the year, with targets of 10,000 tps by 2028 and 100,000 by 2030. Zama's confidential RFQ swap product went live July 24.

Why this matters: Throughput is why encrypted tokens stayed a demo for four years. Hindi's number lands on a GPU rig, with the first live test still months out.