The joint venture between OKX and the New York Stock Exchange's owner has told the SEC it plans a 24/7 venue for tokenised US shares, with a 30-day objection window before trading can start.

The commissioner who designed the five-year exemption for tokenised share trading announced her departure on 25 September 2026. It leaves a two-member Commission holding a temporary permission that no trading venue has yet used.

MoonPay has bought a set of American securities permissions rather than a piece of technology, which is the hardest part of tokenisation to build. None of those permissions reach a UK company's shares.

An SEC lawyer has put a rough date on when tokenised share trading starts in the United States, and a commissioner has set out the one control companies have over it.

DTCC moves its tokenisation service for Russell 1000 shares, major ETFs and US Treasuries into full production in October 2026. The SEC staff relief behind it lasts three years from launch, and the UK's Digital Securities Sandbox runs to December 2028.

The US has just moved the tokenisation debate from theory to live market structure. On 17 September 2026, the US Securities and Exchange Commission issued an order giving temporary, conditional relief to certain venues that want to trade tokenised US stocks. The relief applies to “Tokenised Securities Venues” and exempts them, under set conditions, from being treated as an “exchange” under the Exchange Act. That matters because tokenised shares have been held back by a

A dispute that began with AMC's chief executive calling Robinhood's stock tokens "vile" has escalated into a question about whether lent-out collateral is still there. The row is surfacing three genuinely different structures now competing under the same "tokenised equity" label, and the differences

The US Securities and Exchange Commission cancelled its 14 August open meeting, where it had been expected to propose Regulation Crypto Assets, its first formal crypto specific rulemaking, and to unveil a long anticipated innovation exemption for tokenised securities. The regulator cited an unforese

Securitize, the tokenisation platform best known in the UK for its custody and infrastructure work with BlackRock's tokenised fund, took a regulatory step past its origins as an issuance and trading platform this week. Its subsidiary, Securitize Capital LLC, became a fully registered investment advi

The institutional custody race in digital assets has a significant new entrant. Laser Digital, the digital asset subsidiary of Japanese banking group Nomura, has received conditional approval from the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to establish Laser Digital National Trust Bank, a de n

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

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.