Who keeps the price honest
Only authorized participants can create and redeem, so they keep the price near the share on weekdays; nobody else can arbitrage it. US markets are closed now, so the rail is shut and the price floats until they open.
- Who can create and redeem
- Authorized participants and professional clients onboarded with Backed, from whitelisted wallets. Not the public: a retail holder sells on an exchange or a DEX.
- How
- Requests to Backed’s primary market. xPort is the in-kind route: send xStocks from a whitelisted wallet and Alpaca delivers the shares to a linked brokerage account.
- How fast
- Cash redemption is due by T+5; xPort is advertised as 24/5.
- When
- 24/5 through xPort; the cash route runs on business days.
- Minimum
- $5,000 direct with the issuer
- Cost
- Up to 0.5% of the value per issuance or redemption (the prospectus allows up to 5%); xPort currently free
- Shares or cash
- Yes, through xPort, for clients onboarded with both Backed and Alpaca; the cash route excludes delivery.
- Seen on chain
- Redemptions observed on-chain: last on 2026-10-09 (recurring scan from 2026-09-23). The count comes from the one-off scan of 2026-09-22 to 2026-09-23 until this scan covers that window.
Read on 2026-09-30 from the issuer’s redemption terms; the terms and their sources are under Can a holder redeem?.