What already existed
They trade on DEXes. Pyth publishes equity and xStock feeds (
Equity.US.AAPL/USD, Crypto.AAPLX/USD, and siblings). Kamino listed several xStocks.
What did not exist
- No perp market. You could not long or short the token with isolated margin.
- No interest. Kamino xStocks utilization is ~0, so supply APY is ~0. Holding in Kamino was still just holding.
- No one-click credit. No path from “I own TSLAx” to “that TSLAx is working in a market that pays.”
What Vanna added
- Isolated lending pools for those mints — borrowers create a rate
- Margin credit against the same tokens
- Long / short via borrow + Jupiter (real tokens, not a virtual future)
- Farm that routes stock equity into Kamino main-market USDC/SOL, where APY is real

