Dinari introduced Thursday that it’s going to combine LayerZero, an interoperability protocol, to permit tokenized U.S. shares, often known as d-shares, to be traded and settled throughout a number of blockchains.
In accordance with DeFiLlama, Dinari is an on-chain protocol that provides tokenized securities buying and selling, with a complete lock of roughly $45 million. The preliminary rollout will cowl 4 blockchains and 200 tokenized U.S. shares, with plans to develop to LayerZero’s community of over 150 blockchains and ultimately to your complete U.S. inventory market.
In accordance with a press launch seen by The Defiant, every dShare is backed 1:1 by underlying safety, and LayerZero’s Omnichain Fungible Token (OFT) commonplace permits tokens to be transferred between completely different blockchains with out creating separate variations.
This integration goals to additional join conventional market infrastructure with on-chain inventory buying and selling. On this instance, Dinari supplies the compliance and cost system, whereas LayerZero’s OFT helps greater buying and selling volumes and smoother exercise throughout the community.
“DFN supplies the infrastructure wanted for tokenized shares to operate at market scale,” stated Gabe Otte, CEO of Dinari. “LayerZero connects its infrastructure to world liquidity and creates a system that enables actual U.S. shares to maneuver and settle throughout chains whereas sustaining the compliance and protections that buyers count on from conventional markets.”
Dinari has raised $22.65 million from buyers together with VanEck Ventures and Hack VC, the discharge stated. Earlier this yr, Dinari obtained a license from the Securities and Alternate Fee (SEC) to behave as a registered switch agent. The transfer will allow the platform to allow banks and fintechs to supply tokenized U.S. shares to buyers around the globe.
At present’s integration additionally comes as on-chain buying and selling platforms are recording elevated exercise. TradeXYZ, a perpetual alternate that enables customers to commerce shares and different property, at this time surpassed $200 million in 24-hour buying and selling quantity (about 10% of its historic whole). Open Curiosity (OI) additionally hit a brand new excessive as buying and selling round Nvidia’s earnings soared.
Nasdaq’s current utility to checklist tokenized shares can also be gaining momentum. Whereas the transfer was seen as a significant step for conventional markets, consultants have warned that integrating blockchain-based funds with legacy techniques may be time-consuming and complicated.

