Securitize has placed tokenized versions of Apple, Nvidia, Tesla and nine other U.S. mega-caps onto the Solana blockchain, marking the largest single batch of traditional equities to reach a public crypto rail and setting up a potential bridge to the New York Stock Exchange's planned 24-hour digital venue.
The product and the pipes
The new Securitize Stocks line covers twelve companies, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Netflix, Circle, Strategy and Palantir round out the list alongside the three headline names. Each token is backed one-for-one by an actual share held in custody, preserves dividend and voting rights, and settles in USDC on Securitize's PropAMM platform. Jump Trading will provide liquidity. RQD handles clearing, custody and settlement infrastructure linking the tokens to traditional securities markets.
The regulatory backdrop
The launch arrives weeks after the SEC unveiled an innovation exemption intended to create a pathway for blockchain-based securities trading venues. That exemption, combined with the ICE-OKX joint venture preparing a tokenized securities venue, gives Securitize a regulatory foothold that earlier tokenized-stock attempts lacked. Both the NYSE digital platform and the OKXICE venue remain subject to launch timing and regulatory approval.
Securitize's track record
The Florida-based firm, founded in 2017, has issued $4.5 billion in tokenized assets to date. Its best-known deal was the first blockchain-based money market fund for BlackRock, which also backed Securitize alongside ARK Invest before the company's own NYSE listing in June. Securitize has also tokenized $300 million of its own shares on Solana and Avalanche.
Ownership structure unchanged
The tokens represent security entitlements rather than direct entries on the issuers' shareholder registers. Conversion to direct registration may become available if the underlying companies adopt tokenization themselves. "The opportunity is to bring equities onchain without leaving behind the ownership, investor protections and market infrastructure that make U.S. capital markets work," said Carlos Domingo, Securitize's chairman and chief executive.