Tokenization has proven the rails work. In 2025, interest bearing products like Securitize and BlackRock’s BUIDL scaled fast, alongside private credit efforts like Apollo’s ACRED. The promise is real: real world assets can move on chain with institutional grade custody and settlement. But the first wave is rate sensitive. As the Fed cuts and private credit outcomes diverge, attention shifts to the next category that can sustain growth.

In 2026, tokenized equities are set to take over. The shift is structural: retail owns stocks, but brokers monetize the collateral through funding and securities lending. Tokenized equities change that by making stocks and ETFs usable DeFi collateral. That opens cheaper leverage against fully owned shares and new ways to earn yield on equity exposure by borrowing into yield bearing assets.

In this session, Sentora co founder and CEO Anthony DeMartino and CTO Jesus Rodriguez break down what changes when equities become composable. They will cover how on chain stocks plug into DeFi credit markets, why equity perps can disrupt the broker stack, and which signals matter most as the market moves from early adoption to real scale.