Securitize has announced a definitive business combination with Cantor Equity Partners II, a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by an affiliate of Cantor Fitzgerald, that will value the tokenisation platform at $1.25 billion and make it the first publicly traded company focused on securities tokenisation infrastructure.
The transaction includes an upsized $225 million PIPE financing led by Arche, Borderless Capital, Hanwha Investment & Securities, InterVest, and ParaFi Capital, alongside $244 million in CEPT's trust account — delivering potential gross proceeds of approximately $469 million. Existing equity holders including ARK Invest, BlackRock, Hamilton Lane, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, and Tradeweb Markets will roll 100% of their stakes into the combined entity, which will trade on Nasdaq under the ticker SECZ with completion expected in the first half of 2026.
According to Blockworks, as part of the transaction Securitize plans to tokenise its own equity — issuing its shares as on-chain tokens — a first-of-its-kind move designed to demonstrate how capital markets can operate entirely on-chain. The move puts Securitize's technology thesis into practice at the most visible possible level: if tokenised securities are the future of capital markets, Securitize's own shares should be tokenised.
Founded in 2017, Securitize has tokenised more than $4 billion in assets — a company-reported figure — through partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Hamilton Lane, KKR, and VanEck. It operates as an SEC-registered broker-dealer, digital transfer agent, fund administrator, and operator of an SEC-regulated Alternative Trading System.
The listing is a market structure milestone rather than a deployment story — it signals that the tokenisation infrastructure layer has matured sufficiently for institutional investors to back a dedicated public company in the space.