(SeaPRwire) –   Monday Trade now facilitates round-the-clock (24/5) trading of numerous prominent U.S. stocks, ensuring each is 1:1 backed and settled directly on-chain.

HONG KONG, April 18, 2026 — Monday Trade, a decentralized trading platform operating on Monad, commenced trading today for ten leading tokenized stocks. This makes it the inaugural platform to offer users access to these financial instruments on Monad’s high-performance Layer 1 network. Anchored’s comprehensive tokenization infrastructure is responsible for issuing and backing these tokenized stocks, with each token fully collateralized (1:1) by its corresponding U.S. asset, held in regulated custody.

This launch allows traders to access tokenized shares of various major corporations directly via their Web3 wallets, with trades settled in USDC and full on-chain custody. In contrast to conventional brokerage setups, users benefit from 24/5 trading availability and real-time settlement, all while retaining absolute ownership of their holdings.

This expansion signifies a strategic transformation for Monday Trade, evolving from a crypto-native decentralized exchange (DEX) into an all-encompassing trading venue that connects traditional finance with decentralized finance. The platform, which already provides spot and perpetual futures trading, now establishes itself as the primary liquidity hub for real-world assets within the Monad network.

Institutional-Grade Infrastructure Meets DeFi Accessibility

The tokenized stocks available on Monday Trade are issued utilizing Anchored’s institutional-grade infrastructure. Every tokenized stock on Monday Trade is fully backed (1:1) by underlying securities, held through partnerships with licensed institutional brokers. The platform facilitates a smooth conversion of USDC stablecoins into tokenized stocks, thereby removing the complexities of traditional brokerage account setup while upholding the security inherent in self-custodial wallets.

Leveraging Monad’s architecture, which boasts 10,000 transactions per second and sub-second finality, Monday Trade processes trades in milliseconds, allowing traders to react to market shifts instantly. The platform offers support for both market and limit orders, featuring professional-grade charting by TradingView, live market data, and extensive portfolio management tools.

“Introducing tokenized stocks to Monad signifies a profound change in how traders can engage with traditional financial markets,” stated Mark Lee, a Core Contributor at Monday Trade. “By integrating Anchored’s tokenization infrastructure with Monad’s speed and transparency, we are dismantling the obstacles that have historically prevented everyday traders from accessing global stocks with the same efficiency as institutional participants. This launch is merely the initial step in our broader vision to render all asset classes accessible on the Monad network.”

This launch coincides with the rapid growth of real-world asset tokenization, now recognized as one of the crypto industry’s fastest-expanding segments. The total value of on-chain real-world assets, excluding stablecoins, has surpassed $21 billion, with tokenized U.S. Treasuries alone contributing over $9 billion, underscoring significant institutional interest in blockchain-powered traditional assets.

“Monday Trade’s integration perfectly exemplifies the type of distribution partnership Anchored was designed to facilitate: providing DeFi-native users with effortless access to institutional-grade, fully collateralized tokenized stocks within their existing on-chain environment,” commented Wenny Cai, Co-Founder & CEO of Anchored. “This represents the initial phase of a wider deployment across the Monad ecosystem, with additional tokenized stocks planned for future release.”

“Monday Trade’s introduction of tokenized stock trading highlights Monad’s capacity to manage sophisticated financial applications at scale,” stated Keone Hon, Co-Founder and GM at Monad Foundation. “Boasting 10,000 transactions per second (TPS) and sub-second finality, Monad delivers the essential infrastructure for real-world financial markets to function flawlessly on-chain. We are enthusiastic about Monday Trade spearheading this novel category on the network and illustrating the future of high-frequency finance.”

Connecting Traditional Finance and DeFi

This tokenized stock offering aligns with Monday Trade’s Q2 2026 roadmap, which prioritizes capital efficiency and broadening the range of available asset classes. Through the synergy of Anchored’s full-lifecycle tokenization infrastructure, Monday Trade’s trading platform, and Monad’s high-performance layer, this collaboration establishes a vertically integrated ecosystem. Within this ecosystem, tokenized stocks can be traded with the characteristic speed, transparency, and self-custody inherent to Web3.

As of April 16, 2026, traders can access Monday Trade’s tokenized stock markets via monday.trade. The platform supports integration with leading Web3 wallets such as MetaMask, Coinbase Wallet, and WalletConnect.

About Monday Trade

Monday Trade serves as a comprehensive DEX for on-chain trading on Monad, delivering an optimal blend of centralized and decentralized exchange trading experiences. Constructed on Monad’s high-performance Layer 1 blockchain, Monday Trade provides millisecond execution for spot trading, perpetual futures, and now, tokenized equities. Further information is available at monday.trade.

About Monad

Monad is a Layer 1 blockchain engineered to facilitate high-frequency finance, achieving 10,000 transactions per second, single-slot finality, and 0.5-second block times. Operating on consumer-grade hardware and offering full EVM compatibility, Monad furnishes the robust performance infrastructure required for the subsequent wave of decentralized applications on-chain. Discover more at monad.xyz.

About Anchored

Anchored functions as the global digital operating system for real-world assets, supplying comprehensive infrastructure for the compliant tokenization, distribution, and trading of RWAs. The platform manages the entire asset lifecycle, encompassing origination, compliance, issuance, distribution across DeFi and CeFi platforms, secondary market liquidity, and redemption. Currently, Anchored provides two distinct product categories: tokenized stocks and tokenized fund products.

Operating within a compliance-centric, multi-jurisdictional framework, Anchored caters to institutional investors, centralized exchanges, market makers, and DeFi protocols that seek regulated on-chain access to conventional financial instruments.

For more information, visit anchored.finance.

Media Contact:

Tracy Giap
Monday Trade
tracy@monday.trade

Toni Morales
Anchored
toni@anchored.finance

SOURCE Anchored Capital Ltd