75.43% of the ARK Venture Fund is invested in private companies as of September 30. These companies stay private long after they start to matter, out of reach of most portfolios. Eligible investors can hold tokenized ARKVX from @ARKInvest onchain through Securitize.

Yesterday we teamed up with some of the other digital and traditional transfer agents in the industry (@figure @centrifuge @equiniti (soon to be part of @Bullish) and @plumenetwork sending a joint comment letter to the SEC on their transfer agent rules modernization proposal. We are overall supporting of their initiative and the acknowledging of blockchain record-keeping for tokenized securities but would like to expand it to include wallet addresses, emails or other unique electronic identifiers in particularly for direct holdings of tokenized securities. Some other comments in there as well, full letter in the link below:

Our Head of Issuer Growth @SecuritizeGiang joined @chainlink at Link:NYC to discuss what comes next as firms scale their tokenization offerings, from liquidity and distribution networks to interoperability across the industry. Tokenize the World.

Only 3% of Americans say they're extremely or very familiar with tokenized assets, and 89% are not very or not at all familiar, a new Ipsos survey for @fund_defi finds. We'll keep building until that 3% becomes 100%. Tokenize the World.

🚨NEW: Six more issuers have objected to having their shares tokenized through the @okx/@ICE_Markets TSV: Tesla Amazon Netflix SpaceX Lam Research SoFi Technologies That brings the total number of objections to 56, including five of the Magnificent Seven. Why the objections, @elonmusk and @anthonynoto?

We now have equity perps and spot equity markets on-chain in the US, this will drive massive trading activity for equities basis trade like it did for crypto. Kudos to the SEC and CFTC for their regulatory work.

Today, equity perps can begin trading for the first time on @CFTC registered exchanges. This move reflects my commitment to ensuring that America’s markets remain the most innovative, liquid, and well-regulated in the world. Instead of being forced to turn to offshore, unregulated venues to access equity perpetual futures, Americans may now access equity perps on CFTC-regulated markets subject to robust safeguards. I appreciate the continued partnership of @SECGov and @SECPaulSAtkins as we work to further harmonize our agencies' regulatory initiatives.

🌐 EXPANSION: Securitize expands tokenized U.S. stock offerings on Solana to 25 equities, adding ExxonMobil, Disney, Uber, Salesforce, GameStop, and eight others. Securitize expects the equities to trade on the NYSE's planned 24/7 digital trading venue, subject to launch and regulatory requirements. solana:So11111111111111111111111111111111111111112 ethereum:0xa0b86991c6218b36c1d19d4a2e9eb0ce3606eb48

Gamestop tokens are now tradable on the @Securitize platform. These are CETs (Convertible Entitlement Tokens, not ISTs (Issuer Sponsored Tokens). These tokens are entitlements (not shares). Shout out to @SecuritizeBilly for labeling them so customers know what they are buying.

SECURITIZE LAUNCHES 13 MORE TOKENIZED STOCKS ON SOLANA $SOL, INCLUDING EXXONMOBIL $XOM, SALESFORCE $CRM AND DISNEY $DIS EACH TOKEN IS BACKED 1:1 BY A REAL SHARE HELD IN CUSTODY, WITH DIVIDENDS PASSED THROUGH TO HOLDERS

JUST IN: Securitize launches trading for 13 new tokenized stocks on Solana. The 13 stocks added by Securitize are: • Flex $FLEX • Salesforce $CRM • Lumentum $LITE • GameStop $GME • Exxon Mobil $XOM • Merck & Co. $MRK • Lockheed Martin $LMT • Arista Networks $ANET • Texas Instruments $TXN • Johnson & Johnson $JNJ • Seagate Technology $STX • Uber Technologies $UBER • The Walt Disney Company $DIS

THE BLOCK: Securitize expanded its tokenized U.S. stock offering to 25 equities, adding 13 companies, including ExxonMobil, GameStop, Salesforce, and Disney, to its existing lineup. $SECZ The tokens trade on Solana and are backed 1:1 by underlying shares, providing eligible investors with associated economic benefits and rights, including dividends and voting rights where applicable.

not a part of the team, but I’ll answer to the best of my knowledge. 1). First, it isn’t a wrapper. These stock tokens are called entitlements. I mean broker’s entitlement and are backed 1:1 to the actual shares. They don’t offer a claim that “we will ensure that you get everything that the actual stock does” nor say that they “track the actual stock”. When you buy, what you get is a beneficial claim and as such, what the issuer and its TA have on their master register is securitize’s nominee name and not yours. For wrappers, you likely only get reinvested dividends (that’s if it comes), but with these entitlements, you get to trade them as a US and non U.S. investor, and you get both votes and dividends. 2). This is a triple-barreled question. 1 - you may want to buy securitize’s stock because they are the only one amongst all issuers of tokenized stocks that give full economic benefits to the holders. Some miss votes, some miss accessibility in some regions, some miss dividends as well. But you get all here. 2 - are you able to do cross-collateralization? Yes, but the integration is still on the way, I guess. The initial announcement specifically stated that entitlements will be able to serve as collaterals on lending platforms such as aave when the integration arrives. 3 - are you able to lend the shares onchain to maximize yield? No, I don’t think so (I stand to be corrected). Because, they stated that they *WILL* not lend the real shares out, so I guess this is not possible. As a holder, if your shares are given out to short sellers, you may lose your voting rights, and dividends during that period of lending. Although, dividends are usually replaced by whatever fee has been paid.