Securitizewill start trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) tomorrow (Thursday)under the ticker SECZ, the company said, after shareholders of Cantor EquityPartners II approved a merger that clears the firm's path to public markets.The vote onMonday removed the last hurdle to the listing. Securitize expects the deal toclose today (Wednesday) and hand it roughly $400 million in cash, drawn fromthe special purpose acquisition company's trust and a private investment thatmanagement described as oversubscribed.The listinglands weeks after SpaceX's June 12 market debut, the largest IPO on record, drewheavy retail demand, another sign of the appetite on Wall Street forhigh-profile new names.A Public Proxy for aPrivate BoomThe listingmakes Securitize one of the first publicly traded companies focused purely ontokenization, the business of issuing traditional assets such as funds andbonds as blockchain tokens. Until now,investors wanting exposure to the sector mostly had to buy individual tokenizedproducts or back private funding rounds, rather than the infrastructureproviders themselves.Founded in2017, Securitize builds the plumbing that lets asset managers move real-worldassets onto blockchains. Its clients include BlackRock, Apollo, KKR and VanEck,and it counts BlackRock and ARK Invest among its early investors.Itshighest-profile mandate is BlackRock's BUIDL, a tokenized money market fundthat Securitize manages. The fund has grown past $3 billion and has become afixture of the institutional crypto plumbing, showing up as trading collateralacross venues. In April, OKX added BUIDL to its marginframework with Standard Chartered as custodian, and prime broker Hidden Road began accepting thetoken as collateralacross its network.Securitizechose a SPAC merger over a conventional initial public offering, a route thattrades some of the pricing discipline of a roadshow for speed. Redemptionsamong Cantor shareholders came in below 30%, according to the company, leavingmost of the trust intact. BenchmarkEquity Research reaffirmed a "Buy" rating with a $16 price targetearlier in June, citing the firm's regulatory approvals in the United States.The Retail TokenizationWave Behind the ListingSecuritize'spublic debut lands in the middle of a scramble to put tokenized assets in frontof retail traders, a theme FinanceMagnates.com has tracked through much of the year. The idea issimple: represent a stock, bond or fund as a token, and it can trade around theclock and settle almost instantly, without waiting for legacy market hours.Brokers andexchanges have leaned in hard. Tokenized equities jumped roughly30-fold in the first months of 2026, reaching around $800 million in market valuewith monthly volumes near $1.8 billion, according to Foresight Ventures datacited by FinanceMagnates.com. Robinhood hit a record high after opening tokenizedpublic and private equity to European users, and Bitget and MEXC have raced to fold equity trading into cryptoaccounts.The pulltoward 24/7 markets has reached the CFD world too. Plus500 launched 24/5 share and ETFtrading this year,joining rivals testing longer hours as tokenization pushes the industry towardcontinuous cycles.Securitizesits on the institutional side of that shift rather than the retail-facing one.It builtits business years earlier by working through regulated channels, introducing a tokenized feeder intoa KKR healthcare fund back in 2022 to bring an institutional product to individual US investors. Where theexchanges chase trading volume, Securitize sells the issuance and compliancerails those products run on.Big Numbers, Early InningsTheforecasts around tokenization are large and vary widely. Citi has projectedtokenized assets could reach $5.5 trillion by 2030, while Standard Charteredestimated $2 trillion by 2028. Both figures assume financial institutions keepshifting real-world assets onto blockchain rails at pace.The realityon the ground is smaller. Tokenized real-world assets stood above $24 billionin total value in February 2026, according to RWA.xyz data cited by FinanceMagnates, and the market stays concentrated in a handful of asset classes,mostly Treasuries and money market funds. At theWorld Economic Forum in Davos in January, executives called tokenization"the name of the game" for the year, though many pointed to wholesalerather than retail markets as the nearer opportunity.That gapbetween headline projections and current adoption is part of what SECZ now putson public display. Fund administrator Apex Group set a target of $100billion in tokenized assets on its platform by mid-2027, a marker of how far institutionsexpect the sector to scale. Securitize'sstock gives the market a live gauge of whether that demand shows up in revenueor stays a promise.Securitizedid not disclose full financial terms beyond the cash figures, and its closingfiling had not appeared on the SEC's EDGAR system at the time managementconfirmed the deal. The combined company will operate as SecuritizeCorp.This article was written by Damian Chmiel at www.financemagnates.com.