Part I: The problem

1. The gap is the head, not the tail

Solana carries 193 tokenized stocks. The world's top 2,000 public companies include 1,880 that are not among them. The missing set is not the long tail. It is the head: Samsung, Tencent, LVMH, Aramco, Nintendo, SK Hynix.

These are not obscure names. They are the companies whose products fill an ordinary American day: the phone screen, the game console, the luxury drop, the memory chips inside the AI boom. People consume them constantly. They just cannot own them.

Cultural diets went global decades ago. Portfolios stayed national. That gap is not a demand problem.