Securitize Heads to the NYSE.

The Firm That Tokenises BlackRock's Funds Is About to Become a Public Stock Itself.

There is a neat circularity to the week ahead in New York. Securitize, the firm that turns funds run by BlackRock, Apollo and VanEck into blockchain tokens, is itself about to become a publicly traded share.

After receiving the final nod for proposed merger with Cantor Equity Partners II, the combined company is set to close on 1 July and begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange on 2 July under the ticker SECZ.

"Today, tokenization is moving into the mainstream, and we believe becoming a public company gives us the visibility, credibility, and capital to lead that next phase of growth," Securitize Co-founder and CEO Carlos Domingo said last week.

For a UK founder or investor who has watched tokenisation arrive mostly as press releases and pilots, this is a different kind of signal. A pure play tokenisation business is not raising another private round. It is submitting to the discipline of a public listing, quarterly reporting and a daily share price set by the market. That is a maturity test the sector has not faced before.

What is actually happening

Securitize is going public through a merger with Cantor Equity Partners II, a special purpose acquisition company. The deal, first announced in October 2025, values Securitize at around 1.25 billion dollars before new money and is expected to bring in roughly 400 million dollars in gross proceeds. The path cleared its biggest regulatory hurdle in early June when the US Securities and Exchange Commission declared the registration statement effective, which is the step that lets a SPAC deal proceed to a vote.

The business underneath the ticker is substantial. Securitize administers more than 4 billion dollars of tokenised assets, including BlackRock's USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund, the tokenised money market product that has become the reference point for the whole category. In the past year the firm has also become the first to custody tokenised securities inside a regular broker dealer, and it has been named the first digital transfer agent eligible to mint blockchain native securities for corporate and fund issuers on the NYSE's planned tokenised securities platform. Continental Stock Transfer, one of the oldest names in US share registry, recently named Securitize its preferred tokenisation partner.

Why it matters to UK readers

None of this is a UK seed round, and it is worth being clear about that. Securitize operates at the institutional, US regulated end of the market, tokenising large funds and Treasuries rather than the ordinary shares of an early stage company in Leeds or Bristol. The catch hidden inside the excitement is that the rails being built and now capitalised here are wholesale rails, designed first for the assets that already trade in size.

But the rails are the same rails. The transfer agent function, the custody approvals, the ability to mint a compliant security as a token and settle it against a stablecoin, these are the building blocks that any future market in tokenised private or startup equity will run on. When the infrastructure layer attracts a public listing and the backing of institutions that move slowly and care about compliance, it tells you the plumbing is being laid in places that are hard to rip out later. For founders, the relevant question is not whether they can tokenise their cap table next week. It is who will own and operate the infrastructure when they can, and on what terms.

The other quiet lesson is about capital formation itself. Securitize is using a public listing, not a token sale, to raise its own growth capital. The firm that sells the new mechanism is reaching for the old one. That is not hypocrisy, it is sequencing. The tools mature in the order the regulation allows, and the institutional money follows certainty before it follows novelty.

Key takeaways

• Securitize is set to list on the NYSE under the ticker SECZ around 2 July, following a shareholder vote on 29 June, in a SPAC merger valuing it near 1.25 billion dollars and raising about 400 million dollars.

• The firm administers over 4 billion dollars of tokenised assets and tokenises BlackRock's flagship digital liquidity fund.

• It has secured first mover roles in tokenised securities custody and as a digital transfer agent for the NYSE's planned tokenised platform.

• The infrastructure being capitalised is wholesale and institutional first, but it is the same infrastructure any future market in tokenised startup equity would depend on.

Sources: The Block (29 June 2026), Blockchain.news, Intercontinental Exchange investor releases, StockTitan.