The potential of on-chain equity trading is enormous, but only if the custodial, liquidity, and legal protections are carried forward from public markets.
If you’ve ever bought a stock and assumed you “owned it” the moment you hit confirm, you’ve already met the least glamorous part of markets: settlement. Settlement is the back-end handoff where the system ensures that the buyer’s cash and the seller’s security actually swap places for good, with no take-backs and no missing pieces.
Securitize will introduce a new onchain trading experience for public stocks in early 2026, blending traditional market access with blockchain-based settlement and trading. Securitize is preparing to offer the first fully compliant, onchain trading of natively tokenized public stocks in…
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Coinbase is About to Launch Prediction Markets and Tokenized Stocks: Report
Coinbase is reportedly set to launch its own prediction markets with Kalshi, alongside potential tokenized stock offerings.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has opened the door for tokenized assets to be used across U.S. derivatives markets. The commission has launched a digital assets pilot program covering Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDC, and tokenized real-world assets. In its Dec .…
The US equity market is valued at roughly $68 trillion, yet only about $670 million of that value currently exists on-chain in tokenized form. The scale of that gap has become a focal point for policymakers and market participants as regulators signal a shift toward integrating blockchain-based settlement into the core of American financial infrastructure.