From DeFi to TradFi: How Crypto Exchanges Are Entering the Financial Markets

BitcoinWorld From DeFi to TradFi: How Crypto Exchanges Are Entering the Financial Markets DEK: The crypto market is gradually expanding beyond its own assets, and more and more platforms are launching tokenized stock markets.

In this article, we’ve tried to explain the crypto industry’s move toward traditional finance and why this is happening. Tokenized assets now account for 29% of total crypto market volume on perpetual DEXs, increased by 18,000% since Q4 2025.

Amid this, Major exchanges have increasingly introduced tokenized assets trading. Tokenized real-world assets exist in both types: spot and perps. For spot, every exchange introduces its own type of assets, which we broke down in this article.

Perps, being derivatives, are traded more actively because they offer leverage, short exposure, and greater capital efficiency without requiring traders to own the underlying asset.