# What is Ondo Global Markets?

> An issuer putting 75 tokenized stocks across Ethereum, BNB Chain and Solana. Its dividend figure lives outside the token, which means your wallet balance will not move when one is paid.

- **Kind:** Explainer
- **Checked:** 2026-07-29
- **Updated:** 2026-07-30
- **Author:** Stocks On Chain

## Sources

- Ondo Global Markets: Ondo Stocks overview: https://docs.ondo.finance/ondo-stocks/overview
- Ondo Global Markets: eligibility: https://docs.ondo.finance/ondo-stocks/eligibility

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Ondo Global Markets issues tokenized stocks across three chains. As of this writing we
track 75 of its stocks and 195 of its listings, spread over Ethereum, BNB Chain and
Solana, with a different slice of the catalogue on each. That makes it the broadest
multi-chain deployment on this site.

We are not connected to Ondo. This is a report on what Ondo publishes and what its
contracts show.

## The structure

Ondo issues through Ondo Global Markets (BVI) Limited, using a bankruptcy-remote
special purpose vehicle. Ondo states its tokens are total return trackers that give
economic exposure similar to holding the share and reinvesting dividends, not title
to the share or shareholder rights.

Two phrases there carry the meaning. "Bankruptcy-remote" describes the intent to
separate the vehicle's assets from the operating company's insolvency. "Not title" is
Ondo saying, in its own words, that you are not being given ownership of the share. We
quote it rather than paraphrase it, because an issuer's characterisation of its own
product is the issuer's to make.

## The part that catches people out

Ondo handles dividends by publishing a synthetic share value, often shortened to sValue.
It says how many shares one token now counts as, and it rises as dividends are
reinvested. This is the same family of mechanic Robinhood uses, with one structural
difference that has a real practical effect.

Ondo's figure lives in a separate contract rather than on the token.

When a dividend is reinvested, your token balance stays where it was, and so does the
number your wallet displays. Nothing visible happens in your wallet at all. What changed
is how many shares each of your tokens represents, and that number is in Ondo's contract
rather than in your wallet's view of the token.

Reading a static wallet balance as evidence that no distribution occurred is the mistake
this design invites, and it is the most useful thing to know about holding one.

## One instrument, several chains

Ondo registers the same claim on the same vehicle across three chains. AAPLon on
Ethereum and AAPLon on Solana are the same instrument with the same sValue, rather than
two products that happen to share a name.

This is why this site has an instrument layer between a stock and a listing. One stock,
one page. Under it, one instrument per issuer, carrying one wrapper and one eligibility
rule. Under that, one listing per chain, each with its own contract address. Ondo is the
reason that distinction had to exist: without it, three contract addresses would look
like three products.

Ondo registers its complete catalogue on one chain's oracle, so every sValue we publish
is stamped with the chain we actually read it from. We report where a number came from
rather than implying each chain published it separately.

## Who can hold them

Ondo states: Persons who place buy orders from within the United States, or any of
its states, possessions, territories or federal districts, and persons who are
"U.S. persons" or acting for the account or benefit of any "U.S. persons" within the
meaning of Rule 902 of Regulation S promulgated under the United States Securities
Act of 1933, as amended, are also prohibited from subscribing for, acquiring or
redeeming Ondo Stocks.

That is Ondo's own wording, and it names the definition of "U.S. person" it relies on.
Read the linked eligibility page in full.

## Where to look

The issuer page is at [/issuers/ondo](/issuers/ondo), with every contract address and
the full eligibility statement. The chain pages for
[Ethereum](/chains/ethereum), [BNB Chain](/chains/bnb-chain) and
[Solana](/chains/solana) show what else shares those chains. The
[glossary](/glossary) defines synthetic share value, total return tracker and
instrument.

Every claim about Ondo above is Ondo's own published description, linked at the top.

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Source: https://stocksonchain.io/wiki/what-is-ondo-global-markets
Data read: 2026-07-30T00:00:00.000Z
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