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Crypto Long & Short: Tokenized equities: the model underneath the trade
CoinDeskWednesday, August 26, 2026 at 3:00 PM
RedScroll Brief

In this week's Crypto Long & Short, CoinDesk's Joshua DeVos writes that demand for tokenized equities is accelerating fast, from $16 billion to more than $590 billion in perpetual futures in a single year, but that the headline growth hides the question that matters most.
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- Impact
- High
- Category
- Crypto
- Market relevance
- High
- Why it matters
- Crypto moves are a live stress test of liquidity, regulation, and narrative risk. In this week's Crypto Long & Short, CoinDesk's Joshua DeVos writes that demand for tokenized equities is accelerating fast, from $16 billion to more than $590 billion in perpetual futures in a single year, but that the headline growth hides the question that matters most. Watch liquidity and volatility around Crypto Long and Short — crypto markets reprice narrative risk quickly.
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What happened
In this week's Crypto Long & Short, CoinDesk's Joshua DeVos writes that demand for tokenized equities is accelerating fast, from $16 billion to more than $590 billion in perpetual futures in a single year, but that the headline growth hides the question that matters most.
Why it matters
Crypto moves are a live stress test of liquidity, regulation, and narrative risk.
Background
CoinDesk reported on this under crypto. RedScroll surfaces the signal with an extractive brief — not a reprint of the original article. Read the source for full reporting.
Timeline
CoinDesk published: Crypto Long & Short: Tokenized equities: the model underneath the trade
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Economic impact
Watch liquidity and volatility around Crypto Long and Short — crypto markets reprice narrative risk quickly.
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