TREE NEWS update: The US Securities and Exchange Commission issued an order creating a regulatory pathway for certain trading platforms to offer tokenized representations of publicly traded US equities, effective immediately. The policy, called the “Innovation Exemption,” grants qualifying platforms and liquidity providers regulatory relief to conduct tokenized stock trading, subject to conditions. Two requirements are drawing debate: token holders must receive rights equal to those of traditional shareholders, and listed companies retain the right to object to the tokenization of their securities.
SEC Opens Path for Tokenized US Stock Trading on Regulated Platforms
AI take
The exemption matters less as a green light than as a conditional one: equal-rights treatment plus issuer veto means tokenized equities arrive only where both platforms and listed companies consent, which could fragment liquidity across tokens rather than consolidate it. Issuer objection rights give corporates a de facto gatekeeping role over secondary-market innovation, an unusual concession that may shape which names get tokenized first. Whether qualifying platforms can attract meaningful liquidity under those constraints is the open question.
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