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Nine Listed Companies Object to Tokenized Shares on OKX-ICE Platform

Oct 19, 2026 09:26 ET · 2h ago

TREE NEWS update: Nine publicly listed companies have formally objected to their shares being issued in tokenized form on a proposed platform backed by OKX and Intercontinental Exchange, the parent of the New York Stock Exchange. The companies include Cerebras Systems, AppLovin, Applied Digital, Rocket Lab, CoreWeave, Verizon Communications, Applied Optoelectronics, Broadcom and UnitedHealth Group. The announcement did not disclose the specific reasons for the objections. Under the SEC’s innovation exemption published on September 17, tokenized trading platforms must give issuers written notice and an opportunity to object before listing third-party tokenized shares.

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The objection is the first real stress test of the SEC's innovation exemption, which handed issuers a veto rather than merely a notification right. Because the companies gave no reasons, the market cannot yet tell whether this is a narrow procedural pushback or a broader corporate refusal to accept tokenized wrappers on their equity. The nine names span very different sectors, from semiconductors to healthcare to telecom, so the objection does not read as one industry's grievance. What matters next is whether other issuers follow, and whether platforms read the exemption's notice-and-object mechanism as workable or as a de facto listing block.

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