Securitize will start trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) tomorrow (Thursday) under the ticker SECZ, the company said, after shareholders of Cantor Equity Partners II approved a merger that clears the firm's path to public markets.

The vote on Monday removed the last hurdle to the listing. Securitize expects the deal to close today (Wednesday) and hand it roughly $400 million in cash, drawn from the special purpose acquisition company's trust and a private investment that management described as oversubscribed.

The listing lands weeks after SpaceX's June 12 market debut, the largest IPO on record, drew heavy retail demand, another sign of the appetite on Wall Street for high-profile new names.

A Public Proxy for a Private Boom

The listing makes Securitize one of the first publicly traded companies focused purely on tokenization, the business of issuing traditional assets such as funds and bonds as blockchain Blockchain Blockchain comprises a digital network of blocks with a comprehensive ledger of transactions made in a cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin or other altcoins.One of the signature features of blockchain is that it is maintained across more than one computer. The ledger can be public or private (permissioned). In this sense, blockchain is immune to the manipulation of data, making it not only open but verifiable. Because a blockchain is stored across a network of computers, it is very difficult to tamp Blockchain comprises a digital network of blocks with a comprehensive ledger of transactions made in a cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin or other altcoins.One of the signature features of blockchain is that it is maintained across more than one computer. The ledger can be public or private (permissioned). In this sense, blockchain is immune to the manipulation of data, making it not only open but verifiable. Because a blockchain is stored across a network of computers, it is very difficult to tamp Read this Term tokens.

Until now, investors wanting exposure to the sector mostly had to buy individual tokenized products or back private funding rounds, rather than the infrastructure providers themselves.

Founded in 2017, Securitize builds the plumbing that lets asset managers move real-world assets onto blockchains. Its clients include BlackRock, Apollo, KKR and VanEck, and it counts BlackRock and ARK Invest among its early investors.

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Its highest-profile mandate is BlackRock's BUIDL, a tokenized money market fund that Securitize manages. The fund has grown past $3 billion and has become a fixture of the institutional crypto plumbing, showing up as trading collateral across venues.

In April, OKX added BUIDL to its margin framework with Standard Chartered as custodian, and prime broker Hidden Road began accepting the token as collateral across its network.

Securitize chose a SPAC merger over a conventional initial public offering, a route that trades some of the pricing discipline of a roadshow for speed.

Redemptions among Cantor shareholders came in below 30%, according to the company, leaving most of the trust intact.

Benchmark Equity Research reaffirmed a "Buy" rating with a $16 price target earlier in June, citing the firm's regulatory approvals in the United States.

The Retail Tokenization Wave Behind the Listing

Securitize's public debut lands in the middle of a scramble to put tokenized assets in front of retail traders, a theme FinanceMagnates.com has tracked through much of the year.

The idea is simple: represent a stock, bond or fund as a token, and it can trade around the clock and settle almost instantly, without waiting for legacy market hours.

Brokers and exchanges have leaned in hard. Tokenized equities jumped roughly 30-fold in the first months of 2026, reaching around $800 million in market value with monthly volumes near $1.8 billion, according to Foresight Ventures data cited by FinanceMagnates.com.

Robinhood hit a record high after opening tokenized public and private equity to European users, and Bitget and MEXC have raced to fold equity trading into crypto accounts.

The pull toward 24/7 markets has reached the CFD world too. Plus500 launched 24/5 share and ETF trading this year, joining rivals testing longer hours as tokenization Tokenization Tokenization represents the process of substituting a sensitive data element with a non-sensitive equivalent, i.e. token, which bears no extrinsic or exploitable meaning or value. In essence, the rights to the ownership of an asset are converted into a digital token. Tokenization can be used to own an entire unit of an asset. For example, one token that represents the ownership of a piece of real estate or to split ownership of a single unity of an asset such as 200,000 tokens, each one represen Tokenization represents the process of substituting a sensitive data element with a non-sensitive equivalent, i.e. token, which bears no extrinsic or exploitable meaning or value. In essence, the rights to the ownership of an asset are converted into a digital token. Tokenization can be used to own an entire unit of an asset. For example, one token that represents the ownership of a piece of real estate or to split ownership of a single unity of an asset such as 200,000 tokens, each one represen Read this Term pushes the industry toward continuous cycles.

Securitize sits on the institutional side of that shift rather than the retail-facing one.

It built its business years earlier by working through regulated channels, introducing a tokenized feeder into a KKR healthcare fund back in 2022 to bring an institutional product to individual US investors.

Where the exchanges chase trading volume, Securitize sells the issuance and compliance rails those products run on.

Big Numbers, Early Innings

The forecasts around tokenization are large and vary widely. Citi has projected tokenized assets could reach $5.5 trillion by 2030, while Standard Chartered estimated $2 trillion by 2028. Both figures assume financial institutions keep shifting real-world assets onto blockchain rails at pace.

The reality on the ground is smaller. Tokenized real-world assets stood above $24 billion in total value in February 2026, according to RWA.xyz data cited by Finance Magnates, and the market stays concentrated in a handful of asset classes, mostly Treasuries and money market funds.

At the World Economic Forum in Davos in January, executives called tokenization "the name of the game" for the year, though many pointed to wholesale rather than retail markets as the nearer opportunity.

That gap between headline projections and current adoption is part of what SECZ now puts on public display. Fund administrator Apex Group set a target of $100 billion in tokenized assets on its platform by mid-2027, a marker of how far institutions expect the sector to scale.

Securitize's stock gives the market a live gauge of whether that demand shows up in revenue or stays a promise.

Securitize did not disclose full financial terms beyond the cash figures, and its closing filing had not appeared on the SEC's EDGAR system at the time management confirmed the deal. The combined company will operate as Securitize Corp.