Tokenized stocks are finally no longer just display items that can't be touched.

Venus Protocol has launched bStocks collateralized lending on BNB Chain, allowing users to use on-chain US stocks like TSLAB, NVDAB, SPCXB as collateral to borrow stablecoins without selling their holdings.
This step may seem like a simple product feature expansion, but in fact, it is a substantial integration of RWA and DeFi liquidity pools.
In the past, RWA narratives mostly stayed at the "on-chain" stage; assets were on the chain but lacked interaction with native DeFi protocols.
Venus directly places tokenized stocks into lending pools shared with BTC, ETH, and BNB, meaning traditional stock assets are beginning to merge into native crypto financial Lego blocks.
For users, holding stocks is no longer just a passive wait for appreciation; they can generate liquidity just like crypto assets.
But risks are also worth noting.
The underlying liquidation mechanism of tokenized stocks relies on on-chain oracles and liquidity depth; in extreme market conditions, if stock prices plummet and trigger chain reactions of liquidations, it could lead to cross-asset risk transmission.
Additionally, whether bStocks' liquidity is sufficient to support large-scale lending remains to be seen.
This is not only progress for Venus but also a key step for RWA from "display" to "usable."
When traditional assets truly become composable modules in DeFi, the asset boundaries of the crypto market will be redefined.
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