MetaMask, the popular self-custodial wallet, has added access to tokenized U.S. stocks, exchange-traded funds, and products through a new integration with Ondo Finance’s Global Markets platform, the companies announced Tuesday.
Eligible MetaMask mobile users in “supported non-U.S. jurisdictions” can now buy and trade more than 200 U.S. tokenized securities, including stock-tracking companies like Tesla, Apple, and Nvidia, as well as ETFs tied to gold, silver, and Nasdaq, directly within their wallets without opening a traditional brokerage account, according to the announcement.
This announcement marks one of the first times that tokenized US stocks and ETFs have been made natively available through major self-custodial wallets, highlighting how real-world asset tokenization has the potential to become more tightly integrated with traditional financial infrastructure.
The companies said the move comes as crypto companies seek to blur the lines between traditional financial and on-chain markets, and as tokenized real-world assets grow into a market worth more than $22 billion globally.
“Access to U.S. markets remains via legacy rails; brokerage accounts, fragmented apps, and rigid trading windows have not meaningfully evolved,” Joe Rubin, founder and CEO of ConsenSys and co-founder of Ethereum, said in a press release shared with CoinDesk. “By bringing Ondo’s tokenized US stocks and ETFs directly into MetaMask, we see what a better model looks like: a single self-custodial wallet that allows people to move between crypto and traditional assets without intermediaries and without giving up control.”
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