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Public companies have a surprisingly basic problem: they often don’t know who owns their stock. Carlos Domingo, co-founder and CEO of Securitize, is betting that blockchain can fix that, and he’s putting his own company’s shares on the line to prove it.
Securitize, which recently listed on the NYSE under the ticker SECZ, is pitching onchain records as the authoritative shareholder register for public companies. The traditional system, built around the Depository Trust Company, creates layers of intermediaries that obscure who actually holds a company’s shares.
The DTC problem, explained simply
When you buy stock through a brokerage, you don’t appear on the company’s books as a direct owner. Instead, the DTC holds shares in “street name” through a chain of custodians and brokers. The company issuing the stock sees a handful of large institutions on its register, not the millions of individual investors who actually own pieces of the business.
This makes routine corporate actions, like distributing dividends, conducting proxy votes, or simply communicating with shareholders, far more complicated than it needs to be. Securitize’s model flips this by using blockchain as the official ownership ledger. As an SEC-registered transfer agent, the company enables issuers to maintain direct control over their capitalization tables.
From theory to NYSE reality
On July 2, 2026, the company debuted on the New York Stock Exchange and simultaneously tokenized $295 million of its own common stock on the Solana and Avalanche blockchains. That makes it the largest tokenized equity event to date.
The tokenized structure enables 24/7 onchain trading and settlement for eligible investors, a meaningful upgrade over the traditional market hours and T+1 settlement cycle that US equities currently operate under, while maintaining full compliance with existing securities regulations.
The company’s partnership with Computershare, announced in April 2026, adds institutional credibility. Computershare is the world’s largest transfer agent, serving roughly 60% of S&P 500 companies. Together, the two firms introduced Issuer-Sponsored Tokens, or ISTs, which allow US public companies to tokenize their shares while preserving full shareholder rights.
ISTs function as a digital wrapper around existing shares. Shareholders still get voting rights, dividend distributions, and all the legal protections they’d have under the traditional system, with the ownership record living on a blockchain instead of in a database maintained by a series of intermediaries.
What this means for the broader market
Securitize currently manages around $4 to $5 billion in tokenized assets. That’s significant for a company in this space, but it’s a rounding error compared to the US equities market, which totals an estimated $70 trillion.
For investors, the shift toward onchain shareholder records introduces several practical benefits: enhanced transparency through real-time ownership verification, accelerated settlement that reduces counterparty risk, and improved transferability for eligible investors.
Securitize’s vertically integrated model, combining transfer agent services with tokenization technology, gives it a structural advantage over competitors that only offer one piece of the puzzle. The company controls the full stack from issuance to trading to settlement.
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