--- title: "Securitize Debuts on the NYSE and Puts Its Own Stock on the Blockchain" description: "Securitize, the BlackRock-backed tokenization firm, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker SECZ on Wednesday — and on day one issued $266 million of its own shares as blockchain tokens on Solana and Avalanche. It is a milestone for the effort to move real assets onto crypto rails." category: "Crypto" category_url: https://boursel.com/category/crypto author: "Hannah Blackwood" published: 2026-07-02T19:44:00.000Z updated: 2026-07-02T19:44:00.000Z canonical: https://boursel.com/article/securitize-debuts-on-the-nyse-and-puts-its-own-stock-on-the-blockchain tags: ["securitize", "tokenization", "nyse", "solana", "blackrock"] --- # Securitize Debuts on the NYSE and Puts Its Own Stock on the Blockchain Securitize, the BlackRock-backed tokenization firm, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker SECZ on Wednesday — and on day one issued $266 million of its own shares as blockchain tokens on Solana and Avalanche. It is a milestone for the effort to move real assets onto crypto rails. A company that has spent years arguing that stocks and funds belong on a blockchain just made the case with its own shares. **Securitize**, a leading **tokenization** firm backed by BlackRock, started trading on the **New York Stock Exchange under the ticker SECZ** on Wednesday, with the stock **opening up more than 8% at about $12.75**, [Decrypt reported](https://decrypt.co/372689/securitize-trading-nyse-tokenized-shares-solana-avalanche). The company reached the public market through a merger with a **Cantor Fitzgerald-backed blank-check company** (a SPAC), a deal that [raised around $400 million](https://news.bitcoin.com/securitize-lists-on-nyse-july-2-as-400-million-spac-deal-finally-closes/). (A **SPAC**, or special-purpose acquisition company, is a shell firm that raises money in an IPO and then merges with a private business to take it public.) ## Tokenizing itself The eye-catching part came the same day. Securitize **issued $266 million of tokenized SECZ shares** onto the **Solana and Avalanche** blockchains — digital tokens that represent the very same common stock trading on the NYSE, which the company billed as "the largest tokenized stock in the world," per Decrypt. Chief Executive **Carlos Domingo** was pointed about the distinction: "SECZ is not a synthetic token or offshore wrapper. It is issuer-sponsored tokenization of the same common stock trading on the NYSE." (**Tokenization** means issuing a blockchain token that stands in for a real asset — here, a share — with the asset held and tracked through the normal legal plumbing rather than a copycat crypto derivative.) That last point is the whole pitch. Earlier "tokenized stocks" were mostly unregulated products issued offshore. Securitize is a **registered broker-dealer and transfer agent**, so its tokens are the official shares, not lookalikes — the same distinction other firms, like Ondo Finance, have been racing to establish. ## What Securitize actually does Securitize's business is turning traditional financial assets — money-market funds, bonds, private credit — into blockchain tokens that can settle in seconds and trade around the clock. As of June it managed **more than $4 billion in tokenized real-world assets**, per company disclosures. Its highest-profile job is tokenizing **BlackRock's BUIDL**, a large tokenized money-market fund that has become a flagship for the idea that Wall Street's safest instruments can live on-chain. Putting its assets on **Solana and Avalanche**, not just Ethereum, is a bid to reach beyond crypto insiders to a broader base. ## Why a tokenization firm listing matters There is a neat symmetry here: the company that tokenizes other people's assets is now both a **public company on the NYSE** and a **tokenized stock on two blockchains** at once. That dual existence is meant as a proof of concept — evidence that a real, regulated U.S. equity can trade on crypto rails alongside the traditional market, with the same legal rights. The backdrop is a fast-growing **"real-world asset" (RWA)** movement, in which banks, asset managers and crypto firms are tokenizing funds and securities. The tokenized-asset market has expanded sharply over the past year into the tens of billions of dollars, and boosters project much larger figures ahead — though those long-range forecasts are promotional estimates, not certainties. ## Why it matters For **crypto**, Securitize's debut is a maturity marker: a core piece of tokenization infrastructure is now a public company, subject to the disclosure and scrutiny that entails. For **traditional finance**, it is another sign that tokenization is moving from experiment toward plumbing — with a BlackRock-backed firm and blue-chip funds leading the way, rather than crypto-native speculation. And for **investors**, the SECZ experiment poses a concrete question: will a tokenized version of a real stock attract genuine trading, or remain a symbolic showcase? Boursel gives no investment advice; the takeaway is that the company most associated with putting assets on a blockchain has now put itself there too — a bet that the line between Wall Street and crypto rails will keep blurring. ## Sources - [Securitize begins trading on NYSE as tokenized shares land on Solana, Avalanche](https://decrypt.co/372689/securitize-trading-nyse-tokenized-shares-solana-avalanche) - [Tokenizing SECZ: Securitize brings its own public stock on-chain at listing day](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/tokenizing-secz-securitize-brings-its-own-public-stock-onchain-at-listing-day-302816978.html) - [Securitize lists on NYSE as $400 million SPAC deal closes](https://news.bitcoin.com/securitize-lists-on-nyse-july-2-as-400-million-spac-deal-finally-closes/)