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Ondo's Portfolio Tokens Reach $33.9 Million in First Month

An onchain count confirms Ondo's $30 million claim for a new kind of token. Three wallets hold 92 percent of it.

Published by CryptoLately on 6 min read · 25 sources
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The Hudson Yards skyline in New York at night in March 2025, with office towers lit against a dark blue sky. Photo: Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net) / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
“Ondo says its new portfolio tokens passed $30 million in under a month. An onchain count finds $33.9 million, and three wallets hold most of it. Is this a new market or a few big buyers?”

Ondo Finance said at 17:54 UTC on Oct. 23, 2026 that its new portfolio tokens had passed $30 million1. The first three launched on Sept. 242.

Ondo Finance@Ondo

Ondo is now #1 in tokenized portfolios.

Less than a month after launch, Ondo Intelligent Portfolios has surpassed $30M in TVL, growing 46% in just one week.

Seven portfolios spanning income, growth, and thematic investing, including three based on strategies developed by… pic.twitter.com/gTcUgN4nav

Ondo's graphic reading Ondo Intelligent Portfolios, $30,000,000 in TVL, in white and green on a dark green card
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Ondo posted its $30 million milestone on X at 17:54 UTC on Oct. 23, 2026, with this graphic. The CryptoLately.com Desk then checked the figure against the chain.Post by Ondo Finance (@Ondo) on X, Oct. 23, 2026

The CryptoLately.com Desk checked that figure against the chain, on the Blockscout explorer. Supply times price for all seven tokens came to $33.9 million on Ethereum at 00:11 UTC on Oct. 247 to13. That was 8:11 p.m. on Oct. 23 in New York.

Ondo's number holds. Ownership is narrow. Three wallets held $31.3 million of the $33.9 million, or 92.3 percent.

What a Portfolio Token Is

A portfolio token holds a whole investment plan. Ondo Finance defines it as “a blockchain-based token that provides economic exposure to a basket of underlying assets managed according to a defined portfolio”5. Its site adds that "each portfolio is managed, sponsored, and administered by Ondo."

Underneath sit Ondo Stocks, the company's tokenized stocks and funds3. Ondo Finance calls them “tokenized equities and ETFs backed by real securities sourced from real market liquidity.” A model provider sets the target weights, and Ondo rebalances "back to base weights approximately every quarter," its docs say6.

BlackRock supplied the plans for the first three2. BLKHIon chases income, BLKDIGon diversified growth and BLKGRWon high growth. Ondo designed four more and added them on Oct. 14. MAG7Xon "pairs the Magnificent 7 with crypto," BRAINon holds AI leaders, and YLD5on and YLD8on target 5 and 8 percent income.

Lisa O'Connor leads BlackRock's Model Portfolio Solutions team and is co-CIO for Global Solutions in its Multi-Asset Strategies group2. She made the case for the format on Sept. 24. “Tokenization creates new ways for portfolio strategies to be delivered through digital infrastructure. Diversified portfolio strategies can be incorporated into tokenized investment products, enabling eligible investors to access diversified allocations through a single instrument,” she said.

The glass facade of 50 Hudson Yards in New York, BlackRock's headquarters, in July 2024
Photo 150 Hudson Yards in New York, BlackRock's headquarters, in July 2024. BlackRock developed three of the seven portfolio strategies for Ondo.Kidfly182 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0

Ian De Bode, Ondo's acting chief executive and president, spoke for the token side on Sept. 242. “Portfolios like these have never been available onchain. Now, they are made accessible onchain, transferable at any time, and usable across DeFi,” he said.

Seven Tokens, $33.9 Million

MAG7Xon, one of Ondo's own designs, is the largest of the seven. Each token's value on Ethereum at 00:11 UTC on Oct. 24, with its holder count:

  • MAG7Xon (Ondo): $8.33 million, 36 holders7.
  • BLKGRWon (BlackRock strategy): $7.92 million, 1,545 holders8.
  • BLKDIGon (BlackRock strategy): $4.72 million, 28 holders9.
  • BLKHIon (BlackRock strategy): $4.39 million, 1,561 holders10.
  • BRAINon (Ondo): $4.37 million, 1,529 holders11.
  • YLD5on (Ondo): $3.46 million, 17 holders12.
  • Smallest, YLD8on (Ondo): $0.76 million, 18 holders13.

That splits the money about evenly. BlackRock's three strategies held $17.0 million, and Ondo's four held $16.9 million. All seven are also available on BNB Chain, where Ondo launched them alongside Ethereum4.

Ondo's seven portfolio tokens held $33.9 million on Ethereum on Oct. 23, 2026

Each token's value on Ethereum in $ millions, read 00:11 UTC Oct. 24 (Oct. 23 in New York)

    Read the chart as a table
    ItemValue
    MAG7Xon (Ondo), Big Tech + crypto$8.33M
    BLKGRWon (BlackRock), high growth$7.92M
    BLKDIGon (BlackRock), diversified$4.72M
    BLKHIon (BlackRock), high income$4.39M
    BRAINon (Ondo), AI leaders$4.37M
    YLD5on (Ondo), 5% income target$3.46M
    YLD8on (Ondo), 8% income target$0.76M

    Three Wallets Hold 92 Percent

    A few wallets built that total. Across all seven tokens, the three largest held $31.3 million at 00:11 UTC on Oct. 247 to13. Every other wallet together held $2.6 million. Five wallets held 99.4 percent.

    Holder counts split two ways. Four tokens have fewer than 40 holders each. BLKHIon, BLKGRWon and BRAINon each have more than 1,500, yet their three largest wallets still held 89 to 95 percent. Blockscout shows the leaders as unlabeled wallets. The same three wallets are the three largest holders of six of the seven tokens.

    Ondo's own marketing VP cheered one large purchase. Ben Grossman quoted an alert of 51,470.10 MAG7Xon minted for $279,278.92 at 18:02 UTC on Oct. 2215. "Very cool to see portfolio tokens getting picked up in size!" he wrote. Ondo's team page lists his title14.

    On Oct. 23 he quoted Ondo's milestone post16. “Not only largest but also the fastest growth of portfolio tokens ever?” he wrote. Ondo's post had called the firm "#1 in tokenized portfolios," a rank of its own making1. RWA.xyz, the tracker the CryptoLately.com Desk used, has yet to give tokenized portfolios a ranking of their own17.

    Three wallets held 92.3% of Ondo's $33.9 million in portfolio tokens on Oct. 23, 2026

    All seven tokens on Ethereum by holder in $ millions, read 00:11 UTC Oct. 24 (Oct. 23, New York)

    • Three largest wallets: $31.3M
    • Every other wallet: $2.6M
      Read the chart as a table
      ItemValue
      Three largest wallets$31.3M
      Every other wallet$2.6M
      Whole$33.9M

      Where Ondo Sits

      Portfolios are Ondo's newest line and its smallest. RWA.xyz put tokenized real-world assets at $39.01 billion on Oct. 23, with stablecoins counted apart17. Ondo held $4.00 billion of that, about 10 percent20. Its portfolio tokens come to under 1 percent of Ondo's total. The CryptoLately.com Desk has also checked Ondo's $4 billion milestone and met the team behind its stocks.

      Treasury funds are where Ondo leads18. Tokenized U.S. Treasury funds held $14.64 billion on Oct. 23. Ondo had $3.0 billion, ahead of Franklin Templeton's Benji at $2.7 billion, Circle at $2.4 billion and Securitize at $2.3 billion. Ondo's USDY, at $2.4 billion, sits level with Circle's USYC and ahead of BlackRock's BUIDL at $2.2 billion.

      Stocks are a closer race19. Tokenized stocks totaled $3.45 billion. Binance's own stock tokens, bStocks, led with $1.2 billion25. Ondo came second with $888.6 million, about 26 percent. xStocks followed at $614.0 million.

      Ondo led tokenized Treasury platforms with $3.0 billion on Oct. 23, 2026

      Value of tokenized U.S. Treasury funds by platform on RWA.xyz, in billions of US dollars

        Source: RWA.xyz [18].

        Read the chart as a table
        ItemValue
        Ondo$3.0B
        Franklin Templeton$2.7B
        Circle$2.4B
        Securitize$2.3B

        The chart below follows ONDO, the token tied to Ondo Finance, with CoinGecko's prices and times in UTC.

        OndoONDO

        Rank 49 by market value · $2 billion

        $0.4067 +1.56% in 24 hours

        Times are UTC. A record of price, not investment advice.

        What It Means for Tokenized Assets

        Portfolios turn tokenized stocks into a finished product. Ondo says the positions inside each portfolio are Ondo Stocks3. So every dollar in the new line also sits in Ondo's stock business, the race Ondo trails Binance in.

        The New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street in Manhattan, with a crowd on the street in front of its columned facade, in September 2018
        Photo 2The New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street in September 2018. Ondo says the stock tokens inside each portfolio are backed by real securities.Igge / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

        Equity is the fastest-growing corner of the market. AFME, the European banks' trade group, put tokenized assets at $39 billion in 2026, up 52 percent from $25.5 billion in 202521. Tokenized equity rose 357 percent to $3.2 billion.

        A portfolio adds a step past single stocks. One token carries the mix, the weights and a rebalance about every quarter. That is the job O'Connor and De Bode describe, delivered through a token that moves between wallets.

        The Case for Caution

        Critics see trading rules loosening faster than protections grow. The SEC approved "a temporary, conditional exemption" for some tokenized stock trading on Sept. 17, 2026, Commissioner Mark T. Uyeda wrote22. That exemption allows limited trading of tokenized U.S.-listed stocks on certain onchain venues.

        Paul S. Atkins, then an SEC commissioner, wearing a headset microphone at the St. Gallen Symposium in 2005
        Photo 3Paul S. Atkins at the St. Gallen Symposium in 2005, when he was an SEC commissioner. He chairs the SEC that approved the Innovation Exemption on Sept. 17, 2026.St. Gallen Symposium / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

        Benjamin Schiffrin, director of securities policy at Better Markets, objected on Sept. 1723. “The SEC has said that tokenized securities are securities. But that doesn't matter if the SEC is going to exempt tokenized securities from the federal securities laws that protect investors, which is exactly what the ‘innovation exemption’ does,” he said. His statement adds that "the SEC endangers investors."

        Four IMF authors flagged a second risk on Oct. 824. “Tokenized markets today remain relatively illiquid and exhibit higher volatility than traditional counterparts,” wrote Gonzalo Fernandez Dionis, Caio Ferreira, Mindaugas Leika and Athanasios Vamvakidis.

        The International Monetary Fund headquarters building at 700 19th Street NW in Washington, D.C.
        Photo 4The International Monetary Fund's headquarters in Washington, D.C. Four IMF authors wrote on Oct. 8, 2026 that tokenized markets remain illiquid and more volatile than traditional ones.APK / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0

        Each side now needs one thing. Advocates need the holder base to widen, so $33.9 million rests on more than three wallets. Critics need the concentration to persist, along with the thin markets the IMF describes. For now the record shows a real category, small and held by a few.

        What to Do

        • Check where you live. Ondo sells these portfolios "only outside the United States and only to eligible non-U.S. persons"5. Inside the United States, the SEC exemption covers limited trading of tokenized U.S.-listed stocks on certain onchain venues22.
        • Ask who runs the token. Ondo manages all seven, and BlackRock supplied three strategies5. Its site also says “holding tokens does not by itself make you eligible to mint or redeem on the platform.”
        • Open the holder list on a block explorer before you trust a total. Three wallets held 92.3 percent of these seven tokens7 to13.

        By the numbers

        • Seven tokens: $33.9 million on Ethereum at 00:11 UTC on Oct. 24, 20267 to13.
        • Three wallets: 92.3 percent of it, or $31.3 million7 to13.
        • BlackRock's strategies: $17.0 million across their three tokens8910.
        • Ondo's claim: $30 million on Oct. 23, with growth of "46% in just one week"1.
        • Whole market: $39.01 billion in tokenized real-world assets on RWA.xyz on Oct. 23, 202617.
        • Ondo overall: $4.00 billion, about 10 percent of that total20.
        • Treasury funds: $3.0 billion at Ondo, first among platforms18.
        • Tokenized stocks: $888.6 million at Ondo, second to Binance's bStocks1925.
        • Equity growth: 357 percent since 2025, by AFME's count21.

        What to watch

        Holder counts come first. A falling three-wallet share on Blockscout would show buyers beyond the first few7. Ondo's next milestone post is the second marker, since its $30 million claim came with a weekly growth figure1.

        The stock race is the third. Every portfolio dollar sits in Ondo Stocks, so new money in the seven tokens adds to Ondo's $888.6 million against Binance's $1.2 billion19.

        Sources

        1. Ondo Finance, "Ondo is now #1 in tokenized portfolios.," post on X, Oct. 23, 2026, https://x.com/Ondo/status/2113690435600175228
        2. Ondo Finance, "Ondo Launches Intelligent Portfolios, Powered by BlackRock, Bringing Portfolio Strategies Onchain," PR Newswire, Sept. 24, 2026, https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ondo-launches-intelligent-portfolios-powered-by-blackrock-bringing-portfolio-strategies-onchain-302889264.html
        3. Ondo Finance, "Introducing Ondo Intelligent Portfolios," Ondo Finance blog, Sept. 24, 2026, https://ondo.finance/blog/introducing-ondo-intelligent-portfolios
        4. Ondo Finance, "Ondo Finance Announces Expansion of Ondo Intelligent Portfolios to Seven With New Magnificent 7, AI and Targeted Portfolios," PR Newswire, Oct. 1, 2026, https://www.prnewswire.com/de/pressemitteilungen/ondo-finance-announces-expansion-of-ondo-intelligent-portfolios-to-seven-with-new-magnificent-7-ai-and-targeted-portfolios-302896317.html
        5. Ondo Finance, "Ondo Intelligent Portfolios," read Oct. 23, 2026, https://ondo.finance/intelligent-portfolios
        6. Ondo Finance, "Intelligent Portfolios," Ondo Finance Docs, read Oct. 23, 2026, https://docs.ondo.finance/intelligent-portfolios
        7. Blockscout, "Ondo Magnificent 7 and Crypto Portfolio (MAG7XON) token and holders," read 00:11 UTC on Oct. 24, 2026, https://eth.blockscout.com/token/0xee69f45715bfa6a4cffe2bb7e0d71093b9d58705?tab=holders
        8. Blockscout, "Ondo High Growth Powered by BlackRock (BLKGRWON) token and holders," read 00:11 UTC on Oct. 24, 2026, https://eth.blockscout.com/token/0xc90341cb9cb8d65af044fab23b659b7b4279399b?tab=holders
        9. Blockscout, "Ondo Diversified Growth Powered by BlackRock (BLKDIGON) token and holders," read 00:11 UTC on Oct. 24, 2026, https://eth.blockscout.com/token/0x6e17534a1fc047907d8f422ca166944d6469e053?tab=holders
        10. Blockscout, "Ondo High Income Powered by BlackRock (BLKHION) token and holders," read 00:11 UTC on Oct. 24, 2026, https://eth.blockscout.com/token/0x787769d6fc857169f5243ef66d3f0a954149d3ba?tab=holders
        11. Blockscout, "Ondo AI Leaders Portfolio (BRAINON) token and holders," read 00:11 UTC on Oct. 24, 2026, https://eth.blockscout.com/token/0x8d7a1fcfaf626f8db3852c12d4cdc863d9441283?tab=holders
        12. Blockscout, "Ondo 5 Targeted Income TR Portfolio (YLD5ON) token and holders," read 00:11 UTC on Oct. 24, 2026, https://eth.blockscout.com/token/0x3d68e46ba86ebe702b2399245730dde2f7e4b077?tab=holders
        13. Blockscout, "Ondo 8 Targeted Income TR Portfolio (YLD8ON) token and holders," read 00:11 UTC on Oct. 24, 2026, https://eth.blockscout.com/token/0xa045c4477fb0a0630a50e7915a7fb4d82ede362b?tab=holders
        14. Ondo Finance, "Team," read Oct. 23, 2026, https://ondo.finance/team
        15. Ben Grossman, "Very cool to see portfolio tokens getting picked up in size!," post on X, Oct. 22, 2026, https://x.com/ben_grossman/status/2113372910895390733
        16. Ben Grossman, "Not only largest but also the fastest growth of portfolio tokens ever?," post on X, Oct. 23, 2026, https://x.com/ben_grossman/status/2113697420597239898
        17. RWA.xyz, "RWA.xyz | Analytics on Tokenized Real-World Assets," as of Oct. 23, 2026, https://app.rwa.xyz/
        18. RWA.xyz, "RWA.xyz | Tokenized U.S. Treasury Funds," as of Oct. 23, 2026, https://app.rwa.xyz/treasuries
        19. RWA.xyz, "RWA.xyz | Tokenized Stocks," as of Oct. 23, 2026, https://app.rwa.xyz/stocks
        20. RWA.xyz, "RWA.xyz | Ondo," as of Oct. 23, 2026, https://app.rwa.xyz/platforms/ondo
        21. Association for Financial Markets in Europe, "DLT-Based Capital Market Report 2026 YtD (October)," AFME, Oct. 19, 2026, https://www.afme.eu/publications/data-research/dlt-based-capital-market-report-2026-ytd-october/
        22. Mark T. Uyeda, "Statement on the Innovation Exemption," U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Sept. 17, 2026, https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/speeches-statements/uyeda-statement-innovation-exemption-091726
        23. Benjamin Schiffrin, "SEC's Innovation Exemption Imperils Investors," Better Markets, Sept. 17, 2026, https://bettermarkets.org/newsroom/secs-innovation-exemption-imperils-investors/
        24. Gonzalo Fernandez Dionis, Caio Ferreira, Mindaugas Leika and Athanasios Vamvakidis, "What Is Needed for Tokenization to Deliver," International Monetary Fund, Oct. 8, 2026, https://www.imf.org/en/blogs/articles/2026/10/08/blog-what-is-needed-for-tokenization-to-deliver
        25. Binance, "bStocks AUM: $1,000,000,000+," post on X, Oct. 15, 2026, https://x.com/binance/status/2110687133455233268

        Cite this piece

        Ryan Elliott Dennis, "Ondo's Portfolio Tokens Reach $33.9 Million in First Month," CryptoLately, Oct 23, 2026, https://cryptolately.com/articles/ondos-portfolio-tokens-reach-33-9-million-in-first-month

        Tags: tokenized portfolios · Ondo · BlackRock · RWA · tokenized stocks · tokenized Treasuries · Ethereum

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