The result has been a rush to treat blockchains like infallible digital notaries, recording truthful information and sharing it around.
The future of business contracting is, we believe, the exchange of product and service tokens for digital payment tokens.
When combining tokenization with the complex business logic enabled by smart contracts, we can represent complex business interactions faithfully, and we can do so much more reliably than most companies can today.
It’s not atypical for companies to find that their ability to negotiate agreements far exceeds their ability to actually keep to those agreements.
To get there from here, however, the first step is for companies to embrace tokenization and move away from simply treating blockchains like fancy digital notaries.
On June 14, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) director of corporate finance made waves in the cryptocurrency space when he commented at Yahoo Finance’s All Market Summit: Crypto that ether is not a security.
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 .…
