Trillions Are Moving Onchain: Highlights from Ondo Summit 2026

This year’s Ondo Summit 2026 brought regulators, TradFi heavyweights, crypto-native builders, and policymakers into the same room around a shared conclusion: capital markets are moving onchain — and the shift is accelerating.

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As Goldman Sachs’ Head of Strategy and ISDA Chair Amy Hong put it succinctly: 

Tokenization has the potential to really improve operational efficiencies.

Amy Hong, Goldman Sachs’ Head of Strategy & ISDA Chair

The audience reflected that reality. This wasn’t a crypto-only gathering — it was a roll call of global financial infrastructure and leading fintech brands:
 
Citi, Visa, BNY, Swift, DTCC, Nasdaq, CME Group, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, Fidelity, Franklin Templeton, Vanguard, State Street, Mastercard, PayPal, Bloomberg, Moody’s, Euroclear, London Stock Exchange Group — alongside crypto firms like Coinbase, Galaxy, Pantera, and VanEck.

These are the custodians, exchanges, settlement layers, asset managers, and data providers that already move trillions of dollars every day. Their growing alignment around tokenization signals a clear shift — from isolated experiments to coordinated market infrastructure.

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RWAs and Perps Converge

Two themes dominated nearly every discussion at Ondo Summit:

• Real-world assets (RWAs)

• Perpetual futures (perps)

Both are already massive markets.

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RWAs now represent tens of billions of dollars in onchain value. Perpetual futures generated tens of trillions in trading volume in 2025 alone. Ondo’s thesis is simple: the next phase comes from combining the two.
 
As Ondo framed it:

RWAs x Perps: Two of crypto’s biggest opportunities are converging.

 @OndoFinance

Until now, that convergence hasn’t worked well onchain. The reason isn’t technical — it’s economic.
 
In traditional markets, traders can post equities as collateral. Onchain, most platforms only allow stablecoins, locking capital and reducing efficiency. That’s where Ondo Perps changes the model.

Unlike previous onchain equity derivatives platforms held back by fragmented capital and shallow liquidity, Ondo Perps is the first to accept tokenized securities as collateral — not just stablecoins.

 Nathan Allman, Founder & CEO, Ondo Finance

By allowing tokenized stocks, ETFs, and commodities to be used as collateral, Ondo unlocks capital that was previously trapped — bringing onchain derivatives closer to how real markets actually function.
 
Ondo Perps (launching outside the U.S.) will allow traders to:

• Trade 24/7 perpetual futures

• Use tokenized securities as collateral

• Access up to 20x leverage

• Tap liquidity tied directly to traditional exchanges

Assets include AAPL, NVDA, TSLA, MSFT, AMZN, COIN, QQQ, plus Gold and Silver.

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Tokenized Stocks Are Already Live — and Regulation Is Catching Up

While perps are coming soon, spot tokenized equities are already live at scale.
 
Ondo confirmed that 200+ U.S. stocks and ETFs are now available across Europe via Blockchain.com’s DeFi Wallet, emphasizing:

Self-custody. Full ownership. No middleman.

 

@Blockchain.com

Shortly after, Ondo announced that MetaMask users now have access to the largest selection of tokenized stocks directly inside the wallet — a major signal that tokenized securities are moving into mainstream crypto UX.

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At the same time, regulation is accelerating.

Ondo highlighted that the CLARITY Act could become law as early as April, with growing bipartisan momentum. Voices from the White House and U.S. Treasury took the stage at the Summit — a clear sign that tokenization is no longer being debated as if, but how.

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Ondo also revealed it has confidentially filed a registration statement with the SEC, voluntarily aligning with U.S. disclosure standards before being required to do so. This positions Ondo not as an edge-case crypto platform, but as institution-grade market infrastructure.

As WisdomTree CEO Jonathan Steinberg summed it up on stage: “Eventually everything will go onchain. You can feel the energy building.”

Looking Ahead: Institutional Adoption and Onchain Trillions

To close the Summit, leading voices from both TradFi and crypto offered their 2026 outlook — not as hype, but as strategic trend forecasts.
 
Tom Lee of Fundstrat & BitMine and Dan Morehead of Pantera Capital shared perspectives on what’s next:

→ Key market trends for 2026
→ How institutional adoption is unfolding
→ The ways trillions of dollars will begin to move onchain
 
Watch their full discussion here:

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Their conversation — blending macro, institutional capital flows, and tokenization roadmaps — captured the Summit’s overall theme: the future of markets isn’t offchain or onchain — it’s both at once.