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Odaily News – In response to today's "AMC CEO questions Robinhood over stock tokenization controversy," Backpack CEO Armani Ferrante posted on X, stating that he is a maximalist on tokenization but agrees that Aron's core concerns carry substantive weight: Robinhood's Stock Tokens are debt securities, not 100% backed by the underlying stocks. The funds used to purchase these tokens do not all flow into the actual stock market; instead, through an authorized participant redemption mechanism and partial cash/eligible financial instrument collateral, value leaks to intermediaries, which may lead to divergence between on-chain prices and the underlying shares. He noted in his remarks: "For every $1 a user spends on Robinhood's stock tokens to buy the corresponding stock, less than $1 actually flows into the real stock market."He also pointed out that proper tokenization should be strictly aligned with the stock market, achieving 1:1 stock backing, direct linkage to real market trading, and granting users full shareholder rights, thereby bringing more international capital inflows to listed companies. He also acknowledged that Robinhood Chain is one of the most exciting ecosystems in the crypto space recently, urging the industry to get tokenization right as it iterates.
Within 24 hours of SpaceX’s Nasdaq listing, the $SPCX token—issued by Backpack Securities—surpassed $35 million in trading volume, leading all tokenized stock trading volumes on Solana and exceeding the next $SPCX competitor’s volume by over five times. Its liquidity ranked second among all tokenized stocks. Armani Ferrante, CEO of Backpack, stated that liquidity is concentrated on Backpack’s tokenized stocks because it is the only solution enabling round-trip trading between Solana and Nasdaq, allowing purchases and sales via brokerage accounts and redemption of underlying securities. Backpack Securities, launched by Backpack, aims to integrate traditional and tokenized stock trading, fostering coexistence of real equities across brokerage and on-chain environments and supporting 7×24 real-time U.S. equity trading. The $SPCX token is pegged to actual SpaceX shares; users can deposit and withdraw on-chain shares into Backpack Securities and transfer them to U.S.-based brokerages such as IBKR.