Ethereum-focused digital asset treasury agency FG Nexus (FGNX) mentioned Thursday it has tapped tokenization specialist agency Securitize to let buyers maintain its widespread and most well-liked shares as tokens on the Ethereum blockchain.
After Securitize’s tokenization remedy, shareholders can select to transform their widespread inventory (FGNX) into Ethereum-based tokens, giving them the identical authorized rights as conventional shares. The corporate will even tokenize its perpetual most well-liked inventory (FGNXP), which pays common dividends, making it the primary U.S. exchange-listed dividend fairness to transition totally onto the crypto rails.
The method goals to streamline how public equities are owned and traded utilizing blockchain rails, whereas being topic to the identical laws and rights as common securities. The tokenized shares can be settled in close to instantaneously, tracked on blockchain and transferred by means of Securitize’s SEC-registered broker-dealer and Various Buying and selling System (ATS).
“Tokenization is quickly altering monetary markets by means of elevated effectivity and enhanced investor entry,” mentioned Maja Vujinovic, CEO of Digital Property at FG Nexus. “By tokenizing our shares, we’re embracing blockchain know-how to additional improve the shareholder expertise whereas sustaining the best requirements of regulatory compliance.”
Shift to onchain
The transfer comes as tokenization of economic devices, similar to fairness shares, bonds, and funds, is gaining momentum throughout crypto markets.
A variety of tokenized fairness choices debuted over the previous few months, together with Robinhood, Gemini, Ondo Finance’s World Markets and xStocks by Kraken and Backed Finance, creating token variations of the most important publicly-traded corporations and ETFs. Some companies, like FG Nexus, have chosen native tokenization, a construction that offers an identical rights to token holders as common shares.
“Our undertaking with FG Nexus is predicted to lead to U.S. buyers with the ability to maintain actual inventory, not an artificial wrapper, with immediate settlement, automated compliance and the flexibility to commerce onchain by means of our regulated ATS,” Securitize co-founder and CEO Carlos Domingo mentioned.
Securitize, additionally recognized for issuing BlackRock’s $4 billion tokenized cash market fund, was an early mover on this sector, creating tokens of publicly-traded crypto pockets supplier Exodus (EXOD) shares on Algorand in 2021.
SharpLink Gaming (SBET), one other ETH treasury agency, additionally unveiled plans to introduce its inventory on Ethereum with tokenization agency Superstate’s Opening Bell platform.
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