Securitize to Go Public in $1.25B Deal to Tokenize Wall Street

The future of finance has just placed its biggest bet yet on the public markets.  Securitize, the long-recognized pioneer in the tokenization of real-world assets (RWAs), announced today, October 28, 2025, that it will become a publicly listed company through a definitive business combination with Cantor Equity Partners II (CEPT -2.12%).

The transaction values Securitize at a formidable $1.25 billion pre-money equity value, a figure that doesn’t just represent a victory for the company, but a landmark validation for the entire on-chain finance ecosystem.  The deal is expected to arm Securitize with up to $469 million in gross proceeds, including an upsized $225 million PIPE financing from a roster of blue-chip investors.

This isn’t just another SPAC merger.  It is a defining moment where the arcane world of blockchain infrastructure collides with the bastions of traditional finance.  In a move of conviction, Securitize plans to tokenize its own equity, demonstrating for all of Wall Street how public company trading can—and, in its view, will—move on-chain.

The new entity, to be renamed Securitize Corp., is expected to trade on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “SECZ.”  For Securitize’s co-founder and CEO, Carlos Domingo, this is the culmination of a multi-year mission.  In the company’s release, he stated, “We founded this company with a mission to democratize capital markets by making them more accessible, transparent, and efficient through tokenization…This is the next chapter in making financial markets operate at the speed of the internet.”

The $19 Trillion Prize: Why Wall Street is Backing Securitize

To understand the significance of this $1.25 billion valuation, one must first understand the market Securitize is built to capture.  The company and its backers are eyeing a total addressable market (TAM) for asset tokenization estimated at a staggering $19 trillion.

Asset tokenization is the process of creating a digital token on a blockchain that represents ownership of a real-world asset.  This could be anything: a share of private equity, a stake in a real estate fund, a piece of fine art, or a credit instrument.

For decades, the most lucrative private market investments have been locked away, accessible only to the largest institutions and the ultra-wealthy.  The process of buying or selling these assets is notoriously slow, opaque, and paper-intensive, often taking weeks or months to settle.

Securitize’s platform is designed to shatter this archaic model. By tokenizing an asset, it can be:

• Made Accessible: Fractionalized and offered to a much broader pool of accredited investors.
• Traded Efficiently: Bought and sold on a regulated secondary market with near-instant settlement.
• Managed Transparently: All ownership records and transactions are recorded on an immutable blockchain, and complex processes like compliance checks and dividend distributions can be automated via smart contracts.

This is the future that finance giants are buying into.  The list of existing Securitize equity holders rolling 100% of their interests into the new public company reads like a “who’s who” of modern finance: ARK Invest, BlackRock, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Blockchain Capital, Hamilton Lane, Jump Crypto, and Tradeweb Markets.

Brandon Lutnick, Chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald and Chairman of Cantor Equity Partners II, put the partnership in stark terms: “We believe that blockchain technology has massive potential to transform finance, and partnering with Securitize underscores our confidence in tokenization as a foundational force in the next era of capital markets.”

The Institution-Grade, “Full-Stack” Pioneer

Securitize’s journey from a 2017 startup to a $1.25 billion public-company-in-waiting was built not on hype, but on a relentless pursuit of regulatory compliance.  This is what separates it from a crowded field of hopefuls.

It is the first platform in the industry to operate a fully regulated, end-to-end “stack.”  Its subsidiaries are SEC-registered as a transfer agent, a broker-dealer, an alternative trading system (ATS), an investor advisor, and a fund administrator.

This comprehensive regulatory “moat” means Securitize can handle the entire lifecycle of a tokenized asset—from initial issuance and investor onboarding to life-cycle servicing (like distributions) and, crucially, secondary market trading on its own ATS.

This full-stack compliance is precisely why the world’s largest asset managers have chosen Securitize as their gateway to the on-chain world.  The partnerships are a testament to institutional trust and adoption, spanning major firms like BlackRock, KKR, Apollo, Hamilton Lane, and VanEck — together representing more than $4 billion in tokenized assets to date.

The table below highlights Securitize’s key institutional partnerships and the tokenized assets that have defined its rise.

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Beyond funds, Securitize has also pioneered the tokenization of company equity, first with Exodus and more recently with FG Nexus, a new framework for tokenizing the stock of already publicly listed companies.  Its plan to tokenize its own “SECZ” stock is the final and most powerful proof of concept.

What’s Next? Bridging AI and On-chain Finance

Never content to rest on its laurels, Securitize is already building the next layer of financial infrastructure.  Just last week, in a separate company announcement from the merger release, the company unveiled its MCP Server (Multi-Chain data access and Permissioning server).

This new technology acts as a secure data oracle, designed to solve a critical problem: how to feed AI models trusted, verified, real-time data from the blockchain.  In short, the MCP Server enables AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) to query on-chain data about tokenized assets securely.

The implications are profound.  Imagine an AI financial advisor that can instantly access and analyze the verified, real-time performance, composition, and compliance status of a tokenized private equity fund directly from the blockchain.  This bridges the gap between AI’s predictive power and the verifiable truth of on-chain assets, paving the way for a new generation of AI-driven financial products and analysis.

From pioneering regulatory pathways and securing partnerships with giants like BlackRock to building the bridges for AI, Securitize has methodically laid the groundwork for a new financial system.  Today’s announcement to go public isn’t an exit; it’s an ignition.  With a war chest of capital and the public validation of Wall Street, Securitize is no longer just a platform.  It is poised to become a core, publicly traded utility for the $19 trillion tokenized world it helped build.