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Securitize Tokenises Its Own Shares on NYSE Debut, Creating the Largest Tokenised Stock at Launch

  • Writer: Shawn Jhanji
    Shawn Jhanji
  • Jul 8
  • 3 min read
For anyone in the UK still weighing whether tokenised equity is a real market or a slide in a pitch deck, the past week offered a concrete answer. On 2 July, Securitize began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker SECZ, and on the same day it made its own newly listed shares available as a token onchain. It is the first company to bring its own public stock onchain at the moment it becomes a listed entity, and the tokenised version is expected to be the largest tokenised stock in the world at launch. Securitize is not a fringe name. It is the firm that turns funds run by BlackRock, Apollo and VanEck into blockchain tokens, and it administers BlackRock's BUIDL, the single largest tokenised Treasury product. It reached the public market through a merger with Cantor Equity Partners II, a special purpose vehicle backed by Cantor Fitzgerald that raised around 400 million dollars and valued the business at roughly 1.25 billion dollars going in. The listing itself is a milestone. The self tokenisation is the part that matters for the direction of travel.

For anyone in the UK still weighing whether tokenised equity is a real market or a slide in a pitch deck, the past week offered a concrete answer. On 2 July, Securitize began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker SECZ, and on the same day it made its own newly listed shares available as a token onchain. It is the first company to bring its own public stock onchain at the moment it becomes a listed entity, and the tokenised version is expected to be the largest tokenised stock in the world at launch.


Securitize is not a fringe name. It is the firm that turns funds run by BlackRock, Apollo and VanEck into blockchain tokens, and it administers BlackRock's BUIDL, the single largest tokenised Treasury product. It reached the public market through a merger with Cantor Equity Partners II, a special purpose vehicle backed by Cantor Fitzgerald that raised around 400 million dollars and valued the business at roughly 1.25 billion dollars going in. The listing itself is a milestone. The self tokenisation is the part that matters for the direction of travel.


What actually happened


Alongside the ordinary NYSE listing, Securitize issued an issuer sponsored token representing the same common stock, initially on the Avalanche and Solana networks. Eligible United States investors can access tokenised SECZ through Securitize's own regulated platform, subject to onboarding, KYC and AML checks, jurisdictional eligibility and the applicable securities law that governs any share.


The framing from the company was deliberate. Chief executive Carlos Domingo stressed that SECZ is not a synthetic token or an offshore wrapper, but issuer sponsored tokenisation of the same common stock trading on the NYSE, made available through regulated infrastructure. In his words, that is how tokenisation should scale, with real ownership, regulatory clarity and the issuer at the centre.


That distinction is the whole story. Earlier waves of tokenised stock were often built by third parties creating a derivative or a claim that tracked a share without being the share. This is the issuer itself putting its own equity onchain, with the same legal ownership as the paper version.


"A share is a share is a share".


Why it matters to founders and investors


The UK relevance is not that British founders will list on the NYSE and tokenise on Solana next quarter. It is what the model demonstrates about plumbing that is now being built in parallel here through the Digital Securities Sandbox and the PISCES regime for private company shares.


Three things stand out. First, the issuer sponsored model answers the credibility question that has dogged tokenised equity, namely whether a token really is the share or merely a bet on its price. When the company issues the token itself, that gap closes. Second, doing it at listing day rather than years later signals that tokenisation is moving from retrofit to default, something a company builds in from the start rather than bolts on. Third, an issuer sponsored token that carries real ownership is the template a private UK company could one day use to give employees and early backers a tradable holding, without inventing a synthetic instrument.


None of this removes the hard parts. Custody, the reconciliation between an onchain ledger and the official share register, and investor eligibility rules still decide whether any of it is usable. But the argument that tokenised equity is theoretical is harder to make when the firm that tokenises BlackRock's funds has just tokenised itself.




Key takeaways


  • Securitize listed on the NYSE as SECZ on 2 July and tokenised its own common stock the same day, a market first for a newly listed company.

  • The token is issuer sponsored and represents the same shares, initially on Avalanche and Solana, and is expected to be the largest tokenised stock at launch.

  • The listing valued Securitize at around 1.25 billion dollars via a Cantor Fitzgerald backed vehicle that raised roughly 400 million dollars.

  • The issuer sponsored model closes the credibility gap between a token and the underlying share, the same gap UK private markets will have to close for tokenised equity to work here.


Sources: PR Newswire, Blockhead, Markets Media, Cryptobriefing.

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