Five chains carry the tokenized stocks this site tracks. Four are EVM chains and one is not, and that split has practical consequences for anyone trying to verify a token.
Below is the map, with the reasoning we can see behind it. Where we would be guessing at motive we say so, because an issuer's reason for picking a chain is the issuer's to state and mostly they have not stated it.
The five, as of 14 Aug 2026
Robinhood Chain carries 194 listings, all from Robinhood, and nothing else. It is an EVM chain, read through Blockscout.
Solana carries 82 listings: 75 from Ondo Global Markets and 7 from Backed through xStocks. It is the only non-EVM chain here.
Ethereum carries 75 listings: 60 from Ondo Global Markets and 15 from Backed through xStocks.
BNB Chain carries 60 listings, all from Ondo Global Markets. Read through BscScan.
Base carries 20 listings, all from Dinari. EVM, read through Blockscout.
The pattern that stands out
Three of the five chains have exactly one issuer on them. Solana and Ethereum are shared, both by the same pair: Ondo and Backed.
That points at something about how this category is developing: issuers mostly did not start out choosing a chain in order to be near each other, and Robinhood went furthest by running its own - but the shared chains are where a second issuer has since turned up. We would not read a ranking into any of this, and neither should you. A chain with one issuer is neither better nor worse than a shared one, and the number of listings on a chain is a fact about that issuer's catalogue rather than about the chain.
Why the verification test differs by issuer and chain
Robinhood and Ondo deploy their EVM tokens behind a proxy with a beacon pointing at an implementation contract. That gives you a strong verification test: a lookalike token can copy a symbol, but it cannot get itself pointed at by the issuer's beacon. Ondo also keeps an allowlist contract that answers whether an address is theirs, which is a second independent check.
The other tokens have no beacon to test. Solana tokens are Token-2022 mints with no proxy at all, and Backed's Ethereum tokens and Dinari's Base tokens are checked a different way: by matching the address against the issuer's own published list.
This is why we say which test applies to which chain. A chain where a beacon test is unavailable is a chain where a different check is the one you have.
Chain is a facet, never a gate
Nothing on this site makes you pick a chain before you can see a stock. There is no chain switcher in the way, and the chain is printed on a token as a fact rather than offered as a choice.
The reason is that Person B does not have a chain preference and should not be required to invent one. Someone who arrived asking "is AAPL on chain" needs the answer rather than a menu. The chain pages exist for the reader who arrived already asking about a specific chain, which is a real reader, just not the first one.
Where to look
The chains matrix maps every stock to the chains it is on. Each chain has its own page: Robinhood Chain, Ethereum, BNB Chain, Solana and Base. /developers/contracts has every address we track, grouped by chain.
Counts change as issuers list more stocks. Every figure above carries the date this was written, and the chain pages carry the timestamp of the last read.