Today, OKX launched more than 40 tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs, giving customers across Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia, the CIS region, MENA and Türkiye a way to trade Apple, NVIDIA, Tesla, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and dozens of other names directly from the crypto account they already use, 24 hours a day, against USDT.

Every one of those tokens is built on xStocks, Payward’s tokenized equity framework. This is the latest and largest step in a partnership that’s been compounding for months.

“We’re excited to see OKX build the industry’s first single market for every tokenized stock on xStocks – more than 40 U.S. equities and ETFs, trading around the clock in one deep market instead of scattered across competing tokens. When OKX needed a tokenization partner to build on its global exchange they built on xStocks, because we’re the framework proven at this scale, with the liquidity, custody model and track record to back it,” said Val Gui, General Manager of xStocks.

Typically exchanges that have launched tokenized stocks end up creating a separate market for every issuer’s version of the same equity, so “Tesla” ends up fragmented across three or four competing tickers with thin liquidity in each.

OKX built something different: a single market per stock, prioritising xStocks first, with the potential to add future issuers.

With xStocks, every token is backed 1:1 by real shares held in regulated custody, so the market structure OKX is building can scale without sacrificing the guarantee that matters most: one token, one real share, always redeemable.

Customers can now trade more than 40 tokenized stocks and ETFs on OKX, including:

• The Magnificent Seven: Apple (XAAPL), NVIDIA (XNVDA), Tesla (XTSLA), Microsoft (XMSFT), Alphabet (XGOOGL), Amazon (XAMZN) and Meta (XMETA)
• Indices and ETFs: S&P 500 (XSPY) and Nasdaq-100 (XQQQ)
• Semiconductors: Micron (XMU), SanDisk (XSNDK), Marvell (XMRVL), Intel (XINTC) and AMD (XAMD)
• Crypto and fintech names: Circle (XCRCL), Strategy (XMSTR), Coinbase (XCOIN) and Robinhood (XHOOD)

These tokenized stocks trade against USDT, through the order book or via instant Buy, Sell and Convert, in the same account, the same UX customers already use for crypto, now extended to tokenized U.S. equities.

The launch is the visible, headline moment, but xStocks and OKX have been working together successfully for months:

• OKX Wallet held a trading competition with xStocks, generating $1.7 billion in volume in two weeks, taking 70% market share of trading volume during the competition, an early signal of just how much retail demand is waiting for tokenized access once the friction is removed.
• xChange integration (the atomic swap layer behind xStocks) is live across OKX DEX on three chains, with more to come.
• xStocks and the atomic RFQ engine are deployed on X Layer, alongside xPoints.
• xStocks was a day-one launch partner of OKX’s Exchange OS rollout in May 2026.

All of these building blocks, combined with xStocks having processed billions in combined trading volume for a large and growing base of unique holders, ultimately led to OKX choosing xStocks as its tokenization partner.