Securitize Brings Nvidia, Apple and Amazon Onchain With Tokenized Stocks on Solana

In brief

• Securitize launched tokenized U.S. stocks backed one-to-one by real shares, opening with 12 names including Apple, Nvidia, Tesla and Microsoft.
• Unlike many offshore price-tracking products, each token is a security entitlement under the UCC that preserves rights like dividends and voting.
• The launch joins an accelerating tokenized-stock race, with NYSE and OKX-ICE trading venues planned but not yet live.

Tokenization platform Securitize is bringing a dozen of the biggest U.S. stocks to crypto traders, launching tokenized equities backed one-to-one by real shares, with Solana as the first network.

Announced Wednesday, the new Securitize Stocks product opens with security entitlements to 12 widely held names, including Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Google, Tesla, Meta, Amazon, Netflix, Circle, Strategy and Palantir.

The tokens will initially trade on Securitize's registered broker-dealer platform on Solana, settling in the USDC stablecoin, and will be available to eligible investors in the U.S., the European Union, and other permitted jurisdictions.

What sets the offering apart, the company said, is what sits behind each token. Rather than simply tracking a stock's price, as many offshore tokenized-equity products do, each Securitize Stock is backed one-to-one by an underlying share and represents a security entitlement under the Uniform Commercial Code, preserving investor rights and economic benefits like dividends and, where applicable, voting. The shares backing the tokens won't be lent out, and holders can convert their entitlements into actual registered shares where an issuer supports it.