TREE NEWS reports: DeFi protocol Glider co-founder Brian Huang published a critique on September 22 of the SEC’s tokenized securities exemption, saying the 60-page framework has limited market demand and no existing institution meets all its requirements. Huang said the exemption applies only to permissioned participants, excludes unregistered tokenized stock products from Robinhood, Coinbase, Binance, Ondo and xStocks, and caps tokenized NMS stock volume at 0.25% of the underlying stock’s average daily volume. Glider plans to file a comment letter with the SEC.
Glider Co-Founder Questions SEC Tokenized Securities Exemption Scope
The critique cuts to a structural problem: an exemption whose conditions no current institution can satisfy functions less as a bridge than as a statement of intent, and the volume cap on tokenized NMS stock reinforces that reading. Its practical effect is to leave the most visible tokenized-equity products outside the framework entirely, which matters for platforms and issuers that had assumed a compliance path was opening. Whether the SEC treats the comment letter as a signal to widen scope, or leaves the framework as a deliberately narrow pilot, is the open question.
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