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NEAR co-founder says fragmented liquidity is the biggest hurdle for tokenized stocks

  • —Polosukhin: buying $10 million of Nvidia via Nasdaq is easy, but an equivalent onchain trade is hard
  • —Liquidity for tokenized equities is fragmented across Solana, Ethereum and Base
  • —NEAR Intents lets users specify an asset and size, with solvers sourcing or minting it via Ondo
  • —Ondo Stocks integrated with near.com in September, bringing 20 tokenized stocks and ETFs; TVL topped $1 billion
Why it matters: If NEAR Intents can unify onchain and traditional liquidity, large tokenized-equity trades could execute without relying on thin markets.
Source: Crypto Briefing