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Anchored Finance has launched tokenized versions of traditional stocks on Uniswap’s decentralized exchange, using the Arbitrum Layer-2 network as its primary venue. The deployment, which went live on August 24, brings 10 tokenized equities onto one of DeFi’s most liquid trading platforms, each backed 1:1 by shares held through US regulated brokers and custodians.
What Anchored built and how it works
Anchored Finance first announced its plans on August 20, targeting a launch window of August 21 to 24. The team met that timeline, with tokens going live on the later end of the window after completing technical and liquidity preparations.
The tokenized stocks are issued as ERC-20 tokens. Liquidity routing runs through UniswapX, an order-routing protocol that aggregates liquidity sources to find optimal execution for traders. Settlements happen in USDC, and Anchored has also built on-chain issuance workflows, meaning the creation and redemption of tokenized shares follows a transparent, verifiable process.
The deployment isn’t limited to Arbitrum. Anchored simultaneously launched on Ethereum mainnet, Base, and Monad, spreading its tokenized equities across four networks.
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Anchored’s approach leans on US custodial services to hold the underlying shares, creating a compliance framework where each on-chain token corresponds to a real share sitting in a regulated brokerage account.
What this means for tokenized equities
Post-launch trading volume data for Anchored’s tokens hasn’t surfaced yet. A 1:1 backing model with regulated custody addresses the trust problem. USDC settlements remove friction. Multi-chain deployment across four networks increases surface area for discovery, and Uniswap integration means these tokens don’t need to build their own trading ecosystem from scratch.
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