Dinari launches tokenized S&P 500 stocks for US investors

A San Mateo-based financial technology company has launched a platform allowing eligible U.S. investors to trade tokenized versions of all S&P 500 stocks using blockchain technology. Dinari announced the rollout on Tuesday, August 4, 2026, through a partnership with Circle, the issuer of the USDC stablecoin.

The platform enables users to buy and sell over 700 tokenized equities, called dShares, by funding self-custody digital wallets with USDC instead of using a traditional brokerage account. Each digital token is backed one-to-one by an underlying share held in regulated custody, a structure the company says preserves traditional shareholder rights like voting and dividends, which would be distributed in USDC.

According to Dinari co-founder and CEO Gabriel Otte, the launch bridges the separate worlds of traditional investing and digital assets. He described the model as replacing multiple layers of conventional brokerage infrastructure, allowing for instant settlement of trades and giving investors direct control of their assets through compatible wallets. The company aims to connect the multi-trillion-dollar U.S. equities market with the growing stablecoin ecosystem.