Spreads is live, offering users to trade tokenized stocks, and copy trade politicians, funds, and social media equities portfolio in one click

Spreads, a new onchain trading application, has launched a terminal that lets users trade tokenized stocks and indices with USDC and “copy trade” the portfolios of public figures and institutions, including politicians, funds, and social media personalities, in a single click. Tokenized stocks are blockchain-based tokens that mirror the price of traditional equities, allowing users to gain price exposure to listed companies and indices onchain, typically without conventional shareholder rights such as voting. According to the project’s launch announcement, Spreads positions itself as the “first onchain tokenized stock terminal,” aggregating more than 50 tokenized stocks and indices into a unified interface built on existing tokenized-equity infrastructure. The launch comes amid a broader push to bring traditional equities onchain through tokenization, a process in which real-world assets such as stocks are represented as digital tokens on a blockchain. Major exchanges and financial institutions are exploring tokenized equities to enable near-24/7 trading, faster or instant settlement, and global, programmable access to equity markets. By combining tokenized stock trading with copy-trading of public portfolios (such as those of politicians who disclose holdings, and public funds), Spreads is targeting the overlap between onchain DeFi users and retail traders interested in mirroring the strategies of recognizable market participants. This model also raises familiar questions around regulation, data sourcing, and investor protection that are already emerging across the tokenized securities and retail copy-trading sectors.

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