Dinari Opens Tokenized U.S. Stocks to Eligible American Investors
Stocks, dividends, and Wall Street infrastructure are moving onchain. Dinari brings 724 tokenized U.S. equities to eligible investors while expanding institutional blockchain possibilities.
Bringing U.S. stocks onchain requires more than blockchain infrastructure. Companies must also navigate securities regulations, custody requirements, and investor protection rules. That has made tokenized equities one of the more challenging real-world asset categories to bring onto blockchain networks.
Dinari’s latest announcement marks an important milestone.
The company has launched access to 724 tokenized U.S. stocks for eligible U.S. investors and businesses through its tokenized securities platform. Supported by a partnership with Circle, the launch enables investors to use USDC to purchase tokenized equities, receive dividend payments, and manage these assets through self-custody wallets.
The available catalogue includes every company in the S&P 500 alongside hundreds of additional U.S.-listed equities.
From Global Access to the U.S. Market
When we previously covered Dinari, the focus was on how the company tokenizes U.S. equities through its dShares model and why Avalanche was chosen as part of its blockchain infrastructure. dShares represent tokenized versions of traditional equities backed by underlying securities, giving holders access to shareholder rights associated with those assets.
This latest announcement focuses on a different milestone: expanding access to eligible U.S. investors.
Access is currently available to U.S. users who complete Dinari’s onboarding process, including identity verification and applicable compliance requirements before purchasing tokenized securities.
Dinari Securities, LLC is registered with the SEC as a broker-dealer and is a FINRA member, providing the regulated securities infrastructure behind the platform.
What’s New With Dinari?
The biggest update is scale.
Eligible investors can now access 724 tokenized U.S. stocks, including the full S&P 500, using USDC from self-custody wallets.
The launch introduces several new capabilities:
USDC-based investing: Investors can purchase dShares using USDC as the settlement asset.
USDC dividend payments: Cash dividends are distributed in USDC to eligible investors’ self-custody wallets, allowing them to hold, transfer, or reinvest those funds onchain.
Broader financial integrations: Businesses can use Dinari’s APIs to integrate tokenized equities into their own products.
The Circle partnership is an important part of this expansion. USDC provides the digital dollar infrastructure connecting tokenized securities with onchain financial applications, allowing investors to interact with equity products using a widely adopted stablecoin.
Infrastructure for Financial Institutions
Dinari’s launch is not only designed for individual investors.
Through its APIs, broker-dealers, banks, fintech companies, wallet providers, and other financial platforms can integrate tokenized U.S. equities into their own applications.
This allows financial companies to add tokenized securities without building the underlying systems for issuance, custody, compliance, and servicing themselves. For institutions exploring blockchain-based financial products, this creates a path to combine traditional securities with features such as self-custody, programmable assets, and onchain interoperability.
Avalanche’s Role Behind Dinari
Dinari supports multiple blockchain networks, including Avalanche, Ethereum, Base, and Arbitrum. Avalanche, however, plays an important role in its architecture.
Dinari Financial Network (DFN) is an Avalanche-powered Layer 1 infrastructure layer designed to support Dinari’s tokenized securities ecosystem.
Meanwhile, the Avalanche C-Chain provides a public smart contract environment where dShares can interact with wallets, decentralized exchanges, lending protocols, and other DeFi applications.
This gives Dinari dedicated infrastructure for tokenized financial products while allowing dShares to connect with Avalanche’s broader ecosystem.
Why Tokenized Equities Are Entering a New Phase
Tokenized real-world assets have grown rapidly in recent years, with tokenized Treasuries becoming one of the earliest successful categories.
Equities have required more infrastructure because they involve additional considerations around custody, ownership records, compliance, and investor protections.
Dinari’s expansion brings tokenized stocks closer to mainstream financial applications by combining securities infrastructure with blockchain-based distribution.
For investors, it introduces a new way to access equities through self-custody wallets. For financial institutions, it provides infrastructure for building products around tokenized securities.
For Avalanche, it reinforces the network’s growing role in real-world asset applications, supporting both dedicated financial infrastructure and public blockchain applications.
Dinari’s latest launch shows that the next phase of tokenized equities will depend not only on blockchain technology, but also on the infrastructure needed to connect digital assets with traditional financial markets.
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