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Ondo Finance's token surged 20% on June 3 after Chainlink price feeds went live for its tokenized equities.
ONDO rose 20% to $0.42 on June 3 after Ondo Finance integrated Chainlink price feeds for its tokenized stock products on Ethereum.
Tokenized equities can now serve as collateral across DeFi applications through the new Chainlink oracle infrastructure, Ondo Finance said. With Chainlink serving as the official data oracle, tokenized equities can be used as high-quality collateral across DeFi lending protocols. The integration introduced price feeds for STRCon, a Strategy preferred offering an 11.5% yield, and FLHYon, the underlying asset of a fixed-income ETF.
Ondo Finance is the largest issuer of tokenized equities. Its Ondo Global Markets platform holds more than 70% market share among tokenized equity issuers, according to RWA.xyz, and crossed $1 billion in total value locked on May 11 — the first tokenized stock platform to hit that mark in under eight months. Cumulative trading volume has passed $18 billion, with TVL doubling since January 2026.
The move comes days before Ondo Perps, a platform for leveraged trading of tokenized US stocks and ETFs, goes live on June 9. The product offers up to 20x leverage and is available outside the US, where perpetual futures on equities are not permitted for retail traders. Traders can post their tokenized stock holdings as margin — someone holding tokenized Tesla shares, for example, can use them as collateral to open a leveraged Nvidia position without putting up additional cash.
ONDO broke out of a multi-year falling wedge in early May, ending a prolonged downtrend that had weighed on the token since late 2024. Price has since compressed within a symmetrical triangle, a pattern often viewed as continuation when accompanied by rising demand. The 20% rally pushed the token toward the upper boundary of that formation, bringing a decisive breakout attempt into focus.
If buying pressure holds and ONDO clears triangle resistance, the next upside targets sit around $0.50 and $0.60 during June, according to technical analysis. Continued momentum could support even higher levels in the months ahead. However, the breakout still needs confirmation — a failure to hold above the triangle's upper boundary could delay the next leg higher and keep price trapped within consolidation.
The launch follows a milestone for US perps. On May 29, the CFTC approved KalshiEX's BTCPERP, the country's first regulated Bitcoin perpetual futures contract. The same day, the regulator cleared a path for Coinbase to offer perpetual futures to US customers through an offshore affiliate, treating the products as foreign futures. Ondo Perps and the Kalshi approval differ in scope — one is non-US equity perps, the other a US-regulated Bitcoin perp — but together they point to growing regulatory acceptance of the product structure.
This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice.
