Securitize wants to release compliant, natively tokenised equities in early 2026. This will let people exchange actual share ownership 24/7 on the blockchain.
Securitise, a business that focuses on tokenising securities, said on Tuesday that it wants to introduce what it calls the first compliant, on-chain trading experience for public equities that are issued as tokens that represent real share ownership.
According to the release, Securitize plans to launch its stock product in the first quarter of 2026. The company clarified that the offering aims to prevent structures that mimic stock prices but fail to demonstrate ownership. Instead, the tokens “are real, regulated shares: issued onchain and recorded directly on the issuer’s cap table.”
Interface for users of decentralised finance (DeFi)
Securitize said that natively tokenised public equities, where tokens stand for real stock ownership, were stored on the blockchain but largely exchanged using regular offchain methods. Its argument is that buyers and sellers would be able to trade “fully on-chain” in real time, even when traditional markets are closed.
A compliant tokenised stock ecosystem, Securitize, has spoken out against the current surge of tokenised stock products, saying they “offer exposure, not ownership.” The company said that some of its products depend on special-purpose vehicles or offshore structures that can make pricing errors or increase counterparty risk.
It also criticised tokenised stock products, saying that they “aren’t even compliant” because they are issued as permissionless assets without Know Your Customer’s (KYC) or anti-money laundering (AML) regulations.
The company also says that standard stock infrastructure is out of date and has to be rebuilt and disintermediated, and that investors rarely own “shares in their own name” since settlement takes at least a day.
If tokenisation is going to be important on a large scale, it has to give real ownership, real securities, and keep investors safe.
Securitize explained that its method is based on regulated securities and compliance rules. These include safeguards that only enable transfers happen to approved or “whitelisted” wallets.
Regulated stocks get into DeFi
Securitize said it would be the shares’ transfer agent and is registered with the SEC. Transfer agents keep track of shareholders and introduce changes to ownership. The company argued that, by combining that position with blockchain-based issuance, the tokens would be legally recognised as shares instead of a proxy claim.
Securitize dismissed speedier settlement as the key selling point, arguing that programmability, or the ability of tokenised securities to work with smart contracts and on-chain financial apps, is a bigger possibility.