And 40 days after releasing BUIDL, it became the fastest-growing and now the largest tokenized fund in history.
Congratulations to all the people at
@BlackRock
and
@Securitize
who made this happen; hard work and long-term thinking pay off.
via
@coindesk
I just sent $10K in Bitcoin from Coinbase to Kraken and paid less than $3, whomever thinks that Bitcoin transactions are expensive, has never use a regular bank to do an international transaction.
So, the news is out. We have completed our new funding round led by
@BlackRock
. They are the best partner we can think of, and having them in our company solidifies our partnership.
We look forward to doing more products together. Let's talk about the rest of the investors 1/7
Announcing our $48M series B co-lead by
@blockchaincap
and
@MorganStanley
whom they are also taking a board seat at our company to help us reinvent private capital markets. Thanks to all
@Securitize
employees for making my job so much easier.
We submitted a proposal to be part of the
@arbitrum
DAO as the placement agent for Blackrock's BUIDL, and we hope to get the support of the
@arbitrum
community to bring a large tradfi institution into their treasury
Incredible effort from the
@arbitrum
DAO and the team at
@OffchainLabs
to get institutions comfortable with submitting a proposal on a public forum. 🤝
What started out as a brainstorming session around providing support for RWA teams, turned into an amazing governance proposal
The news is out: We have partnered with Blackrock, the largest asset manager in the world, to help them bring their assets on-chain starting with BUIDL. They have invested in our company and joined our board, and I could not be more proud of the team at
@Securitize
that made this
Securitize is proud to announce we have partnered with
@BlackRock
. Together, we’re launching BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL).
BUIDL will provide investors with the opportunity to earn U.S. dollar yields by subscribing to the fund with Securitize
The email from the CEO of
@expensify
to their customer database is completely innapropiate irrespective of your political views. Total spam. We use them. Alternatives?
🚨NEW: The House Financial Services Digital Assets Subcommittee will discuss tokenizing real world assets in a hearing next Wednesday.
Wonder if
@carlosdomingo
or anyone from
@BlackRock
will be asked to testify? 🙂
We just announced that
@securitize
issued digital securities can now be placed in your Investment Retirement Account (IRA) in the US to enjoy the tax benefits that only traditional securities had before. Major step forward for the industry. via
@coindesk
Yes
@Algorand
security tokens will be supported for trading at Securitize Markets starting with
@exodus_io
soon and hopefully many more in the future!!
JUST IN: Token issuance tech provider
@Securitize
has registered as a transfer agent with the SEC, a move it says will boost blockchain adoption.
Report by
@Nate_DiCamillo
1) Today we are announcing a major development
@Securitize
strategy. We have signed a definitive agreement to purchase a BD/ATS, subject to regulatory approval, to launch our own secondary market place for security tokens. Thread below 👇
Congratulations to
@FlareNetworks
for their investment from our shareholder
@Ripple
's
@XpringDev
We partnered with them to issue compliant security tokens that can be held seamlessly by
#XRP
users using their
#XRP
key, expanding the universe of assets available to
#XRP
users.
At
@securitize
we are extremely excited and proud to be the digital transfer agent and technology partner for
@SDinwiddie_25
and
@DreamFanShares
world's first Professional Athlete Investment Security Token. Innovation takes courage, kudos.
We have just announced a partnership with our shareholder
@sbigroup
to bring institutional custody to the security token market. The infrastructure gets getting better to drive adoption.
SBI Digital Asset Holdings is to integrate its institutional crypto wallet with the digital securities platform from
@Securitize
, a regulated U.S. firm.
Via
@Tanzeel_Akhtar
Today a major milestone in the security token/digital asset security space and crowdfunding industry it happened, the RegA+ filling for
@exodus_io
was approved by the SEC and their fund raising just started. A thread on the significance of this 👇
Wow, this is so forward thinking, well done Wyoming and Senator Lummis. Yes blockchain based securities removing the need for a centralized clearing house like DTCC is the future. We will do this for private markets first where you don't need to use centralized depositories.
What happened with
#GameStop
this week is basically unprecedented. At one point, there were 38% MORE outstanding claims to GameStop stock than stock that actually existed! Good news: we can fix this with
#blockchain
Today
@OverstockCEO
announced in their earnings call that they are integrating
@Securitize
Digital Securities protocol to
@tzeroblockchain
to be able to trade security tokens issued with our platform. Thanks to
@Noursalehi
for the vote of confidence. Great win for our customers.
Bitcoin might not end up replacing banks but will force them to reduce their outrageous fees the same way that Skype and WhatsApp forced telcos to reduce the cost of SMS and voice calls. We all win. Support it.
#NEW
: Chairman
@PatrickMcHenry
announces a Digital Assets, Financial Technology and Inclusion Subcommittee hearing entitled "Next Generation Infrastructure: How Tokenization of Real-World Assets Will Facilitate Efficient Markets."
Read more 🔗
In a fireside chat with
@SergeyNazarov
,
@Securitize
Co-Founder and CEO Carlos Domingo shared insights on tokenizing funds alongside some of the largest firms in the world, such as BlackRock and KKR.
Why
#TokenizedAssets
are taking asset management into a whole new era ⬇️
So today we finally launched Securitize Markets, our secondary market trading platform for security tokens or digital asset securities operated with the BD/ATS license we purchased a year ago. Let me summarize what this means below 🧵👇 1/20
Announcing our funding round at
@securitize_io
Congrats to the team for making it happen. “Coinbase and others invest $12.75M in project to create 'digital security offerings'” via
@techcrunch
1/4) Today at
@CoinDesk
First Mover we announced that
@Securitize
Capital will be issuing digital asset securities for our two inaugural yield funds one denominated in BTC and another one in USDC with low fees of 0.5% starting minute 46:30
This is what the pipeline from BlackRock Treasuries to stablecoins looks like.
In code.
In goes US Treasuries out comes USDC.
There's $27 trillion in Treasuries.
The banks are opening branches on Ethereum.
Institutionals are coming to the security token space. Welcome to our new set of great investors. "Token Tech firm
@Securitize
Raises $14 Million From Santander, MUFG, Nomura"
John and I have shared a vision of moving traditional finance to the blockchain via tokenization since we first met in 2017 and now we are finally making this a reality together. Thanks to the
@avalancheavax
for the support on the project, hopefully the first of many more.
We're just a couple of weeks away from
@token2049
in Singapore! Securitize Co-founder & CEO
@carlosdomingo
will join a panel discussion on "Redefining Ownership: Tokenization and Next-Generation Markets" on September 19 at 3:20 PM SGT.
Don’t miss this chance to hear from the
It took YC 13 years for one of his companies to go public, this is how long the accelerator business takes to be successful and I believe that we will see many more going public afterwards. Unless you have patience you should not get into that business.
We are entering the corporate debt issuance market with the best partner we could think of "Securitize To Join IBM's Blockchain Accelerator To Modernize $82T Corporate Debt Market"
If you aren’t already following Securitize, now’s the time to start. We'll be making a lot of big news about the digitization of regulated finance and increasing access to the private capital markets. And we’re kicking that off Tuesday morning.
No entiendo porque hay que usar una VPN para poder acceder a
@renfe
a comprar un billete desde el extranjero y en cualquier caso tampoco funciona aunque lo hagas, mismos errores, desastre total. Voy a tener que hacer una cara llamada internacional para poder reservar un billete.
@carlosdomingo
Buenas tardes, Carlos. Sentimos mucho las molestias. Por favor, prueba a realizar la compra a través de nuestra app y usando VPN. Saludos.
Among all the noise about Libra, this very significant announcement from
@Ripple
did not get enough attention. Great interview with
@bgarlinghouse
about their MoneyGram investment.
4/4) Last but not least, the digital asset securities for the funds will be issued on the
@Algorand
blockchain. Thanks to the ongoing support of
@stevekokinos
and the Algorand team and
@borderless_cap
principals
@DG__tw
and
@arul_1111i
for helping us build the future of finance
In Miami-Dade we have had the first day without any reported coronavirus case since the pandemic started in March last year. Vaccines work and the pandemic is over here.
At
@Securitize
we are tokenizing a piece of a private equity fund from leading PE firm
@KKR_Co
and put it on the
@avalancheavax
blockchain, major step forward to use public blockchains to democratize access to private capital markets.
via
@WSJ
We just made the Top 50 Blockchain companies of
@CBinsights
at the capital markets category. So proud of all the
@Securitize
team. What a way to end the year.
Hoy se ha publicado mi libro sobre cyrptomonedas y blockchain, lo podeis comprar ya aqui Por menos de 9 euros te pones al dia de uno de los temas mas fascinantes de la actualidad!!
We just announced at the Global Brain Alliance Forum in Tokyo that we are acquiring Japanese leading blockchain company
@Buidlll
founded by Global Brains CEO
@YYurimoto
and
@JUN_Omise
to accelerate our expansion in the Japanese market.
This was a fun recording with
@RyanSAdams
and
@TrustlessState
. I have been a fan of the pod for a long time, but this was my first appearance, and we had a great conversation!! Thanks for the invite
@BanklessHQ
PREMIERE:
@BlackRock
's $10T Bet on Ethereum
The largest institutions in the world are here, and they’re tokenizing their assets
We knew this was big…but after recording this episode we realized this is an even bigger deal than we thought
Find out why 👇
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, largest trust bank in Japan and one of the largest in Asia has issued their first security token using
@securitize
platform, institutional adoption is coming.
English here
Japanese here
We are glad to announce that we are joining the MUFG lead Security Tokens Consortium along industry giants like NTT, KDDI, KPMG or Accenture as the only issuance and management and platform of the 22 members
Congratulations to the
@circle
team for a major accomplishment. We recently did the first onchain regulated securities transaction using EURC as the e-money token that now is also regulated. You can see the transaction on the
@avax
blockchain here
BREAKING NEWS:
@Circle
announces that USDC and EURC are now available under new EU stablecoin laws; Circle is the first global stablecoin issuer to be compliant with MiCA. Circle is now natively issuing both USDC and EURC to European customers effective July 1st.
Details
Few days back I sent $5K from Dubai to Spain and the bank charged me $15 and took two days, today I sent 30 BTC and it took seconds and I paid $0.2. And people still question whether cryptocurrencies are the future?
News are out!! We are officially launching Securitize Markets at 9:30am today, head to to create your trading account using Securitize ID and join the other 400K investors that have already done.
NEW: Security token issuer
@Securitize
has launched Securitize Markets, a secondary trading marketplace to sell and trade security tokens.
Report via
@Nate_DiCamillo
We are proud to announce that the high profile real estate security token deal of the St. Regis hotel in Aspen is moving to the Securitize platform and our digital securities protocol will be powering their token. Another validation of our technology
And the new name of our broker dealer has been formally approved, welcome to Securitize Markets, you can now find us on Finra Broker Dealer check site.
"BlackRock’s growing confidence in the digital assets market is also highlighted by its backing for Securitize, joining Tradeweb and Hamilton Lane in a $47mn fundraising round for the platform, which uses digital tokens to represent assets. BlackRock’s global head of strategic
Now we should let UK get back into Europe but under the condition that they use the metric system, adopt the euro, drive on the right side of the road, switch the electric plugs to two round pins and serve only cold beer.
Today I had to honor of receiving the Fast Company Award to the most innovative companies on the Web3 category on their gala event in NY. Congratulations to all
@Securitize
employees that made it happen.
Congratulations to
@homium
for their launch in partnership with
@Securitize
as their transfer agent and tokenization platform issuing tokens on
@avax
Our first token representing helocs
Homium issues tokenized home equity loans on Avalanche 🔺
The blockchain industry has seen a resurgence in focus on asset tokenization. Through shared appreciation home equity loans,
@homium
introduces a way for homeowners to borrow against their home equity without increasing
I got an email from an investment bank soliciting for a 4M euros funding round for a pretty well know Spanish startup. What kind of company needs to retain an investment bank to raise a round of that size? That the CEO cannot go directly to investors does not look good.
Our acquisition of a BD/ATS for digital asset securities has been approved by regulators and it is now officially closed. Moving to execution. More news on our plans and timeline soon. Stay tuned.
We just announced the acquisition of Pacific Stock Transfer, a traditional transfer agente on what is one of the first acquisitions of a Wall Street firm by one in crypto. Let me explain you what this means for us and the industry 🧵👇 1/11 via
@coindesk
“The path forward comes from embracing a simple fact: tokenized assets are a superior way to represent financial assets.”
In a recent
@CoinDesk
article,
@ChainLinkGod
highlights the shift in decentralized finance (DeFi) and demand for stablecoins as tokenized assets offer an
The
@arbitrum
STEP allocation to diversify their treasury into RWA is out!! Out of 32 companies, only 6 were chosen, with
@Securitize
's
@BlackRock
BUIDL fund receiving the highest allocation and being the only tradfi tokenized fund selected!! Full list here
Excited to be joining
@Algorand
at
#Decipher
in Miami on November 29-30th! Register today for this inaugural two-day experience that will bring the community of builders, businesses, investors & innovators together to decipher the future on
#Algorand
:
First two security tokens that will be trading in the US are both issued with
@Securitize
Digital Securities protocol, another first for us and our partner
@OpenfinanceIO
Today in tokenization...
@re
launches its tokenized reinsurance fund on
@avax
(powered by
@securitize
). Providing mostly non-cat insurance exposure to accredited and institutional investors, Re is building the "decentralized Lloyd's of London".
First investors into the fund
Time to modernize securities trading, complicated in public markets unless DTCC does it but doable on private securities that do not require centralized clearing houses and can use blockchain to settle trades instantly without counter-party risk.