Tokenization's Wild West: Regulators Give Green Light to US Stock Trading The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has granted temporary relief for trading platforms to list tokenized stocks, sparking a 14% surge in Securitize's stock price.
Proponents of this emerging technology hail the move as a victory, but it comes with risks. Tokenization involves registering ownership rights for real world assets on a digital ledger.
The SEC's "Innovation Exemption" order will allow limited trading of tokenized publicly traded US stocks for five years.