Base Announces Plans to Tokenize Around 500 Stocks by Year-End

Published: October 8, 2026 – 11:18 UTC

Coinbase and Base plan to focus on developing tokenized securities.
Among the most promising areas, a Base representative highlighted a focus on privacy and the development of AI agents.

Tokenization of stocks will become one of the priority areas for Coinbase and Base over the next one to two years. Base’s head for the Asia-Pacific region and Singapore, Nick See Tong, told the Incrypted team about this in a conversation at CoinFerenceX.

He noted that Coinbase and Base aim to bring the number of such onchain assets to around 500 by the end of 2026.

According to him, Coinbase entered the tokenized securities market somewhat late, but the model the company chose differs from competitors’ offerings.

In particular, tokenized stocks are backed by real securities at a 1:1 ratio, which are held in a bankruptcy-remote structure.

“In the coming months, we plan to add about 10 new stocks every day. By the end of the year, we will have around 500 stocks on the blockchain with deep liquidity,” See Tong said.

The Base representative added that the ecosystem is interested in attracting developers of financial products based on tokenized securities. Among the potential areas, he named lending, borrowing, structured products, and options.

AI agents and privacy

Answering a question about the most talked-about areas of the crypto market, See Tong singled out AI agents. In his view, despite growing interest in the technology, mass adoption of autonomous e-commerce is still a long way off.

He believes users first need to get used to using AI agents for everyday tasks, including buying goods and booking services. Only after that can we expect widespread adoption of such solutions for executing transactions via blockchain.

At the same time, speaking about the prospects for mass adoption of cryptocurrencies, See Tong suggested that the next billion users will be AI agents.

*Discussion at CoinFerenceX. Photo: Incrypted.*

At the same time, the Base representative called privacy the most undervalued area of the industry.

“Privacy matters for any financial institution that transacts and trades on the blockchain,” he noted.

He expects that over the next one to two years, privacy solutions will see significantly higher demand. The Base representative also noted that blockchain platform developers are already working on the relevant technologies.

As a reminder, NEAR Protocol co-founder Ilya Polosukhin previously said in a conversation with Incrypted that privacy technology is important for bringing institutional players into the market.

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Source: Incrypted