The tokenization firm put its real common stock on Solana and Avalanche the same day it began trading on the New York Stock Exchange, in what it says is a first for a newly public company.
Posted July 2, 2026 at 8:15 pm EST.
Securitize put its own stock on a blockchain the day it went public. The tokenization firm began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker SECZ on Thursday and the same day tokenized its common stock on Solana and Avalanche. According to the company, it is the first newly public company to bring its own equity onchain on its first day of trading.
Tokenized SECZ was worth roughly $295 million onchain as of publication, according to data tracker RWA.xyz. Each token is the same common stock that trades on the exchange, the company said, rather than a newly created share class.
That distinction is the whole point. Over the past year, exchanges and brokerages including Robinhood, Kraken, and Coinbase have rolled out tokenized stock products, but most are third-party tokens that track shares the platform holds or references. Securitize instead put its own registered shares onchain through its own SEC-licensed transfer-agent and broker-dealer rails.
Co-founder and CEO Carlos Domingo said in the announcement: “SECZ is not a synthetic token or offshore wrapper. It is issuer-sponsored tokenization of the same common stock trading on the NYSE, made available through regulated infrastructure.”
Domingo was blunter in an interview: “We just wanted to lead by example and show people that if you want to issue real shares onchain, not fake shares, not copy cats, whatever you want to call it, then you can do it.”
Securitize, whose existing backers include BlackRock and Ark Invest, went public through a merger with the special-purpose acquisition company Cantor Equity Partners II. It has spent years building tokenization plumbing for asset managers, and was tapped by the NYSE earlier this year to help build a 24/7 tokenized-equity trading platform.
Company president Brett Redfearn put it more plainly in an interview: “We’re gonna eat our own dog food.” He expects other public companies to bring their shares onchain within the year.
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