August was a record month. Token Terminal counts 928.4K new tokenized stock holders in a single month. The entire base at the end of July was 771K, so August alone was bigger than everything that came before it, and x3.4 the previous monthly record of 272K, set only in July. That is not a line drifting upward. That is a step change.

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