By Isaac • July 18, 2026 1:34 pm •
Tokenized stocks are no longer a thought experiment. The harder question is whether blockchain can get into the room before those shares begin trading.
Cantor Fitzgerald and Securitize now want to move the technology upstream, to the point where a public company actually raises money.
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The firms announced an agreement Wednesday to support initial public offerings and follow-on stock sales with blockchain-based infrastructure.
It is a much bigger ambition than putting a digital wrapper around shares that already exist.
Cantor will bring the investment-banking machinery: equity capital markets, trading and access to companies preparing to sell stock. Securitize will supply the regulated infrastructure to issue, distribute and service tokenized securities.
If the model works, blockchain would
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