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DEX & DeFi ReportOctober 12, 2026

Trading volume and value locked across stablecoins, tokenized funds, commodities and stocks.

PUBLISHED
DATA AS OFOctober 12, 2026
PERIODPast 30 days
Original article on X ↗
Token Terminal · ORIGINAL RESEARCH16 FIGURES
In this report 5 sections

This is a 30-day edition of RWA Activity on the Terminal, a joint report from RWA Foundation and Token Terminal. Instead of market cap and holders, it looks at where tokenized assets are being used: trading volume on decentralized exchanges and value locked in DeFi protocols. It covers stablecoins, tokenized funds, tokenized commodities and tokenized stocks, by venue or protocol and by chain.

All figures are taken strictly from Token Terminal as of October 12, 2026, and cover the past 30 days. No third-party data has been added, and no figures have been adjusted or estimated.

DEX figures show the change in trading volume over the past 30 days compared with the 30 days before. DeFi TVL figures show the change in value locked over the past 30 days. Where Token Terminal lists several versions or pools of the same protocol, such as Uniswap V2, V3 and V4 or Raydium's CLMM and CPMM pools, they are combined into one figure. Each chart is built from Token Terminal's top 10 list, and totals are sums of those entries only.

01Overview

Stablecoins dominated both measures. Stablecoin DEX volume across the top venues rose $12.2 billion, led by Uniswap, and stablecoin DeFi TVL rose $2.2 billion, led by Morpho. Tokenized stock DEX volume rose about $3.2 billion across the top venues, but by chain it shifted sharply, away from BNB Chain and Robinhood Chain toward Solana and Base.

Tokenized funds and commodities moved on a much smaller scale. Fund DEX volume rose about $60 million and fund DeFi TVL about $105 million. Commodity DEX volume rose about $172 million, almost all of it on Solana, while commodity DeFi TVL grew by about $516,000.

02DEX trading volume

Stablecoins

Uniswap's stablecoin DEX volume rose $5.5 billion, combining V4 (+$4.1 billion) and V3 (+$1.4 billion), about 45% of the $12.2 billion increase across the top venues. Raydium (+$1.6 billion), Aerodrome (+$1.5 billion) and GoonFi (+$1.1 billion) followed. Fluid (+$824.4 million), Orca (+$643.3 million), Metric (+$607.5 million) and Tessera (+$449.7 million) completed the list.

Stablecoin DEX volume growth by venue
FIGURE 01 · Token Terminal — Stablecoin DEX volume growth by venueDownload chart ↓

By chain, Base added $4.2 billion in stablecoin DEX volume and Ethereum $2.0 billion, about 70% of the $8.9 billion across the top 10 chains. Robinhood Chain (+$1.1 billion) and Arc (+$611.8 million) followed, then Solana (+$297.7 million), Monad (+$201.8 million), Polygon (+$195.0 million), Avalanche (+$155.2 million), Plasma (+$65.9 million) and Tempo (+$31.4 million).

Stablecoin DEX volume growth by chain
FIGURE 02 · Token Terminal — Stablecoin DEX volume growth by chainDownload chart ↓

Tokenized funds

Fluid's tokenized fund DEX volume rose $36.0 million and Aerodrome's $20.4 million, together about 94% of the top venues' net increase. AlphaQ (+$1.7 million) and PancakeSwap (+$1.6 million) followed. Uniswap (+$75,800), Raydium (+$41,200) and Hyperliquid (−$5,000) moved by less than $100,000.

Tokenized fund DEX volume growth by venue
FIGURE 03 · Token Terminal — Tokenized fund DEX volume growth by venueDownload chart ↓

By chain, Arbitrum One added $54.1 million, Base $20.3 million and Plasma $17.3 million. Robinhood Chain added $2.0 million. BNB Chain (+$21,200) and Monad (+$9,600) grew slightly, while Polygon (−$29,200), HyperCore (−$5,000) and Tempo (−$870) declined.

Tokenized DEX volume growth by chain
FIGURE 04 · Token Terminal — Tokenized DEX volume growth by chainDownload chart ↓

Tokenized commodities

Raydium's commodity DEX volume rose $102.6 million across its CLMM (+$59.0 million) and CPMM (+$43.6 million) pools, about 60% of the top venues' total. Orca added $43.5 million and Uniswap $18.0 million, net of a $431,800 decline on V2. Meteora (+$6.2 million) and Fluid (+$2.1 million) followed. Aerodrome declined $11,900.

Commodity DEX volume growth by venue
FIGURE 05 · Token Terminal — Commodity DEX volume growth by venueDownload chart ↓

By chain, Solana added $99.3 million, more than every other chain combined. Celo (+$212,000), Plasma (+$109,100) and XDC Network (+$1,700) grew slightly. HyperCore fell $3.6 million and HyperEVM $1.0 million, with smaller declines on Arbitrum One, Monad and Base.

Commodity DEX volume growth by chain
FIGURE 06 · Token Terminal — Commodity DEX volume growth by chainDownload chart ↓

Tokenized stocks

Raydium's tokenized stock DEX volume rose $1.34 billion across its CLMM (+$802.8 million) and CPMM (+$534.5 million) pools, and Aerodrome's rose $1.3 billion. Orca added $362.9 million and Meteora $123.8 million. GoonFi (+$42.2 million), Hyperliquid (+$7.7 million) and ZeroFi (+$3.0 million) followed, while Byreal fell $1.2 million.

Tokenized stock DEX volume growth by venue
FIGURE 07 · Token Terminal — Tokenized stock DEX volume growth by venueDownload chart ↓

By chain, the picture changed. Solana added $2.2 billion and Base $1.3 billion, while BNB Chain fell $2.3 billion and Robinhood Chain $2.0 billion. Ethereum (+$30.6 million) and HyperCore (+$7.7 million) grew, and X Layer fell $117,100. Across these chains, the net change was a decline of about $762 million.

Tokenized stock DEX volume growth by chain
FIGURE 08 · Token Terminal — Tokenized stock DEX volume growth by chainDownload chart ↓

03DeFi TVL

Stablecoins

Morpho added $1.5 billion in stablecoin DeFi TVL, about 68% of the $2.2 billion added across the top protocols. SparkLend (+$237.5 million) and Aave (+$219.1 million) followed, then Fluid (+$124.2 million) and Uniswap (+$75.1 million across V4 and V3). Orca (+$26.6 million), Aerodrome (+$15.8 million), Raydium (+$12.1 million) and PancakeSwap (+$9.3 million).

Stablecoin DeFi TVL growth by protocol
FIGURE 09 · Token Terminal — Stablecoin DeFi TVL growth by protocolDownload chart ↓

By chain, Ethereum added $520.5 million, about 30% of the $1.7 billion across the top 10 chains. Base (+$361.6 million), Arc (+$352.1 million) and Plasma (+$243.5 million) followed. Robinhood Chain (+$93.3 million), Arbitrum One (+$68.4 million), Tempo (+$48.7 million), Avalanche (+$22.8 million), OP Mainnet (+$4.9 million) and World Chain (+$2.1 million).

Stablecoin DeFi TVL growth by chain
FIGURE 10 · Token Terminal — Stablecoin DeFi TVL growth by chainDownload chart ↓

Tokenized funds

Morpho added $42.2 million in tokenized fund DeFi TVL, Aave $33.8 million and Pendle $24.9 million, about 96% of the $105.5 million across the top protocols. Orca added $3.6 million. Uniswap, Aerodrome, Fluid, Flux Finance, Raydium and Meteora each added under $500,000.

Tokenized fund DeFi TVL growth by protocol
FIGURE 11 · Token Terminal — Tokenized fund DeFi TVL growth by protocolDownload chart ↓

By chain, OP Mainnet added $36.9 million, Monad $19.2 million and Robinhood Chain $8.4 million. Polygon added $14,400, and the remaining chains in the top 10 moved by less than $200.

Tokenized fund DeFi TVL growth by chain
FIGURE 12 · Token Terminal — Tokenized fund DeFi TVL growth by chainDownload chart ↓

Tokenized commodities

Commodity DeFi TVL grew by about $516,000 across the top protocols. Orca added $300,100, about 58% of the total. PancakeSwap (+$91,800), Raydium (+$60,200), Morpho (+$36,200) and Meteora (+$21,600) followed, with Aerodrome (+$4,400) and Venus (+$2,100) adding smaller amounts.

Commodity DeFi TVL growth by venue
FIGURE 13 · Token Terminal — Commodity DeFi TVL growth by venueDownload chart ↓

By chain, Arc added $208,500, Celo $139,100 and Solana $57,000. Base added $2,500, while Arbitrum One fell $36,300.

Commodity DeFi TVL growth by chain
FIGURE 14 · Token Terminal — Commodity DeFi TVL growth by chainDownload chart ↓

Tokenized stocks

Pendle added $22.4 million in tokenized stock DeFi TVL, about 40% of the $56.5 million across the top protocols. PancakeSwap (+$11.3 million across two pools), Kamino (+$7.8 million) and Aave (+$4.8 million) followed. Raydium (+$3.2 million), Aerodrome (+$2.9 million), Morpho (+$1.8 million), Meteora (+$1.6 million) and Orca (+$651,800) completed the list.

Tokenized stock DeFi TVL growth by protocol
FIGURE 15 · Token Terminal — Tokenized stock DeFi TVL growth by protocolDownload chart ↓

By chain, Ethereum added $22.8 million, Solana $8.0 million, BNB Chain $7.1 million and Base $7.0 million. Robinhood Chain fell $25.2 million, the largest move on the chart and the only significant decline.

Tokenized stock DeFi TVL growth by chain
FIGURE 16 · Token Terminal — Tokenized stock DeFi TVL growth by chainDownload chart ↓

04What stands out

  • Uniswap led stablecoin DEX volume growth, and Morpho led stablecoin DeFi TVL growth by a wide margin.
  • Raydium appears in every DEX venue chart, and led commodity and stock DEX volume growth.
  • Solana led commodity DEX volume and stock DEX volume by chain, while BNB Chain and Robinhood Chain saw the largest stock DEX declines.
  • Robinhood Chain grew in stablecoin DEX volume and DeFi TVL but declined in tokenized stock DEX volume and stock DeFi TVL.
  • Orca, an RWA Foundation member, appears in seven of the eight venue and protocol charts and led commodity DeFi TVL growth.

05Conclusion

Over the past 30 days, stablecoins accounted for most of the growth in RWA DEX trading and DeFi deposits, with Uniswap and Morpho leading. Tokenized stock trading grew on Solana and Base while falling on BNB Chain and Robinhood Chain. Tokenized funds and commodities are still small in DeFi, with growth concentrated in a handful of protocols.

All figures are sourced strictly from Token Terminal as of October 12, 2026, and reflect the past 30 days. This report is for informational purposes only and is not investment advice.

About this edition

Originally published by RWA Foundation on X on October 12, 2026, with data and reporting from Token Terminal. The report’s text and charts are preserved here. Figures reflect the source’s stated data windows and methodology; this is a dated research edition.

For informational purposes only. This report is not financial or investment advice.