For UK founders and investors watching the tokenisation of equity markets, one of the clearest signals yet that this space is being given a real regulatory foundation arrived from Washington on 18 May 2026. Bloomberg Law reported that the US Securities and Exchange Commission, under Chair Paul Atkin

On 14 May 2026, the United States Senate Banking Committee passed the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act in a 15-9 vote. Two Democrats joined Republicans to advance the bill, marking the first bipartisan approval of comprehensive US digital asset regulation at committee level. The vote moves the legis

For UK founders and investors watching tokenised equity markets develop, one recurring structural objection has been governance: if you hold tokenised shares, can you actually vote? The answer, until recently, has been sometimes. As of this week, Broadridge Financial Solutions has moved the industry

Sometime in the next two months, a tokenisation platform will ring the opening bell on NASDAQ for the first time. Securitize Corp — the rebranded entity that will emerge from the merger of Securitize, Inc. with Cantor Equity Partners II (CEPT) — is expected to close its business combination in the first half of 2026, trading under the ticker "SECZ."

On 21 April 2026, Atkins told an industry audience that the SEC was "on the cusp" of releasing a framework that would allow tokenised securities to trade directly on blockchain networks for the first time under formal regulatory cover. For an industry that has operated in legal grey areas for years, that statement represents a significant shift in the regulatory weather.

Most so-called "tokenised stocks" — including some popular DeFi products — are synthetic: a token whose price tracks an underlying stock, backed by some form of collateral or contractual claim.

What Tokenisation Means for Startups Tokenisation refers to the process of converting ownership rights in an asset into a digital token on a blockchain. This technology allows companies to represent shares, equity, or other financial instruments as tokens that can be traded more easily and transparently. For startups, tokenisation offers several advantages: Access to a broader investor base: Tokens can be sold to investors worldwide without traditional intermedia

the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued joint guidance that the digital assets industry has been waiting over a decade for. For the first time, the SEC formally defined different types of crypto assets and how the regulator will approach them — ending years of enforcement-by-litigation and replacing it with a clear taxonomy.