Securitize Teams Up with Cantor Fitzgerald for Tokenized Public Offerings

TL;DR:

• Securitize and Cantor Fitzgerald will collaborate to enable public companies to conduct IPOs and follow-on offerings onchain.
• Cantor brings equity capital markets and trading capabilities, while Securitize provides infrastructure to issue, distribute and service tokenized securities.
• Securitize Markets, an SEC-registered broker-dealer affiliate, will participate in offering and settlement processes as the companies target transparency, efficiency, modernized ownership records and global onchain investors within established traditional public-offering frameworks.

Securitize and Cantor Fitzgerald are teaming up to bring initial public offerings and follow-on offerings onchain, moving tokenized securities beyond secondary trading and into capital formation. The agreement pairs Cantor’s equity capital markets and trading capabilities with Securitize’s regulated tokenization infrastructure. Public companies could raise capital and issue securities using blockchain-based infrastructure while working inside traditional public-offering frameworks. The collaboration pushes tokenization into primary markets, where regulatory discipline and investor access matter most.

The practical promise is broader than a blockchain label on shares. Securitize and Cantor say public companies could gain enhanced transparency, operational efficiency, modernized ownership records and access to a global onchain investor base. Securitize will provide infrastructure used to issue, distribute and service tokenized securities, while Securitize Markets, its SEC-registered broker-dealer affiliate, will participate in offering and settlement processes. The model tries to preserve Wall Street mechanics, but update how ownership, distribution and servicing are handled.

Onchain offerings test capital markets modernization

Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo framed the partnership as a way to avoid forcing public companies to choose between traditional capital-market access and blockchain benefits. That framing matters because issuers are unlikely to embrace tokenization if it means stepping outside legal, underwriting and market structures. Cantor brings conventional market credibility, while Securitize brings the regulated digital-securities stack. The pitch is continuity with better infrastructure, not a replacement of IPO standards with crypto-native fundraising.

Cantor’s Pascal Bandelier said the firm is bringing its equities franchise onchain, noting that Cantor ranked number one in U.S. IPOs in 2025. He described tokenization as becoming part of mainstream capital markets and said the partnership brings equity-market rigor to onchain settlement and distribution. The strategy is to make tokenized securities feel less experimental to issuers, investors and intermediaries. The real test is whether efficiency becomes adoption, because public offerings depend on confidence, liquidity, compliance and trusted execution.

Securitize arrives with relevant positioning. Securitize says it has more than $5 billion in assets under management as of July 2026 and works with managers including Apollo, BlackRock, BNY, Hamilton Lane, KKR and VanEck. Its U.S. affiliates include a broker-dealer, an ATS, a transfer agent and fund-services operations, while its European affiliate is authorized under the EU DLT Pilot Regime. The infrastructure is already regulated, but onchain IPOs need issuers willing to test tokenized ownership records in public markets.