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Representing conventional securities, including fund shares, as blockchain records while preserving the underlying legal instrument.
CoreWeave, Broadcom and Cerebras have each objected to OKXICE trading tokenized versions of their shares, on a venue that treats 30 days of silence as consent. Davis Polk says a company can object only to a venue that sends it a notice. Each no covers one platform.
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OKX marketing chief Haider Rafique plans to leave by the end of December, Bloomberg reported on October 15, citing people familiar with the matter. One departure is thin evidence of turnover at a company valued at $25 billion after ICE's investment.
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The SEC unveiled a five-year exemption for stock tokens two days after the Senate's failed CLARITY cloture vote. TD Cowen cautions that agency rules like it are the easiest to rescind, so firms building on it carry that risk.
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Perpetuals.com filed a notice on Wednesday to run a tokenized U.S. stock venue under the SEC's five-year exemption, the second company to do so. Trading could begin in mid-November at the earliest. So far the exemption has drawn two sets of plans.
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EasyA has filed a draft SEC registration for a 2027 direct listing after a third party valued it at $1.1 billion. That figure does not guarantee the trading price, and the company has not said how its tokenized shares would work.
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Morgan Stanley moved tokenized-equity support on its alternative trading system from the second half of 2026 to Q1 2027. Its digital asset head cites limited products and demand, crypto.news reported, as DTCC still plans an October 2026 service.
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Koscom has signed memorandums with 13 securities firms on a shared tokenization platform ahead of Korea's Feb. 4, 2027 rules. Four brokers named in the same report are working through their own builds or outside partners, so the case for shared infrastructure is unproven.
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South Korea proposes letting stocks, bonds and funds trade under its tokenized securities framework from 2027, with annual retail OTC purchase limits. How hard those limits bite depends on whether buyers trade tokenized assets or only hold them.
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SEC's September 17 exemption gives eligible tokenized shares full shareholder rights while letting their trading venues pick their own price feeds. Douro Labs asked SEC staff on October 9 for provider-neutral standards to judge those feeds.
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Robinhood Chain's daily transactions have fallen more than 40% since mid-September, barely three months after the network went live. Robinhood paid customers' swap fees through the whole slide, so the money users still keep parked on the chain is the better test of it.
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Robinhood is exploring a Stock Token with T. Rowe Price, the $1.9 trillion asset manager, that would track an actively managed ETF. It would be Robinhood's first token on a fund whose holdings a manager picks, and board approval, regulatory clearance and filings still stand between the talks and anything an allocator can buy.
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Solana exchange Orca and lender Loopscale merged into Formation to finance AI, energy and defense firms on Loopscale's $2 billion lending record. ORCA stakers carry the first cost: a related proposal would cut their share of protocol fees from 40% to 10%, Cryptopolitan reported.
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The Senate blocked the Clarity Act 49-50 on Tuesday. By Thursday the SEC had published a tokenized-stock exemption its chairman tied to that defeat, on terms a future chairman can withdraw without a vote.
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Three federal agencies moved on crypto rules within 48 hours of the Senate's 49-50 vote that stalled the Clarity Act. Only the stablecoin rules sit on a statute, so businesses using the SEC and CFTC relief hold permissions a later administration can withdraw.
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Either Paul Atkins or Mark Uyeda can now act alone as the SEC's quorum under a rule effective Oct. 2, but only on matters where the other is disqualified. Decisions on the pending crypto custody and offering proposals therefore sit with a Commission of two people.
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Bitfinex Securities charges a $100,000 minimum to issue a $5 million one-year bond, 2% up front and five times what its own 0.4% formula yields. Below $25 million the floor sets the price, so Paolo Ardoino's goal of 80% cheaper capital reaches small issuers mainly through pooling funds.
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OKX and NYSE owner ICE have filed with the SEC to run a 24/7 venue for more than 60 tokenized U.S. stocks traded against stablecoins. How useful it turns out to be depends on how deep its liquidity pools stay on weekends, when no cash market is open for arbitrage.
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CFTC on Oct. 5 opened a consultation on an optional federal registration for crypto venues offering retail leverage, with 60 days for comments. Chairman Michael Selig also proposed a 28-day wallet-delivery test that would generally exempt those trades from registered-exchange trading rules.
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OKXICE, a joint venture of OKX and ICE, plans to trade more than 63 tokenized US stocks in Uniswap v4 liquidity pools. Uniswap's pricing formula would stay unchanged while a compliance token gates access, all under a temporary SEC exemption.
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South Korea's Financial Services Commission proposed rules on October 1 letting stocks, bonds and funds trade as tokens from February 4, 2027. Comments close November 11, while bills from both main parties would push the January 1 crypto income tax back as far as 2030.
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