Securitize Puts Apple, Nvidia, and Tesla Onchain With 12 Tokenized Stocks on Solana

Securitize, the regulated broker-dealer and tokenization platform, has launched tokenized versions of 12 major U.S. equities on Solana, bringing blue-chip stocks including Apple, Nvidia, Tesla, Microsoft, and Amazon onto a public blockchain for the first time through a fully compliant, broker-dealer-backed product.

Each token is backed 1:1 by real shares held in custody, and token holders retain both dividend rights and voting rights tied to the underlying equity. Trading is live now on Solana for eligible U.S. and EU investors through Securitize's broker-dealer platform. NYSE and OKX-ICE venues are planned as future trading destinations, which would mark the first listing of tokenized equities on a major traditional exchange.

The product, called Securitize Stocks, does not merely represent exposure to share prices. According to the company's announcement, the tokens carry "a path to direct share ownership," meaning holders can, in principle, redeem tokens for the underlying shares. That distinguishes this structure from earlier synthetic or derivative-based tokenized stock products, several of which collapsed or were shut down following regulatory pressure between 2021 and 2023.

Solana's selection over Ethereum is notable. The network has spent the past two years aggressively courting institutional partners, and its transaction throughput, which regularly exceeds 3,000 transactions per second under load, makes it a more practical settlement layer for equity-scale trading volumes than Ethereum mainnet. Securitize has existing relationships across both chains, having previously used Ethereum for its tokenized fund products, including its work with BlackRock's BUIDL fund. Choosing Solana for this launch signals a deliberate infrastructure decision, not a default.

The real-world asset (RWA) tokenization sector has grown substantially in 2026, with total onchain RWA value across all chains exceeding $15 billion earlier this year. Tokenized U.S. Treasuries led that growth, with products from BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, and Ondo Finance capturing most of the inflows. Equities represent the next logical frontier, but also a harder regulatory problem: unlike Treasuries, individual stocks carry more complex shareholder rights, corporate action events, and securities law entanglements. Securitize's approach of preserving dividends and voting rights addresses the most obvious objections, but the SEC has not issued formal guidance specifically covering tokenized equities, leaving some legal ambiguity intact.

Custody and counterparty risk are the product's most significant structural vulnerabilities. Token holders depend entirely on Securitize's custody infrastructure to maintain the 1:1 backing. A custody failure, operational breach, or regulatory action against Securitize itself would put that backing at risk in ways that do not apply to direct share ownership. Solana's historical network outages also introduce a category of trading disruption that has no equivalent in traditional equity markets. These are not hypothetical risks; Solana experienced multiple significant outages between 2021 and 2023, though the network's reliability record has improved considerably since then.

The planned NYSE integration carries the most long-term weight. Traditional exchanges listing tokenized equity tokens would validate the asset class in a way that crypto-native trading venues cannot. It would also force a reckoning among traditional brokers and asset managers who have so far treated tokenized securities as a niche experiment. Securitize has not disclosed a timeline for the NYSE listing, and exchange approvals of this kind involve regulatory review that could extend the process by months or longer.

Accessibility remains a constraint. The product is currently limited to eligible investors in the U.S. and EU, which in practice means accredited investors and qualified purchasers. Retail participation in most jurisdictions is excluded for now. The democratization argument for tokenized equities, that onchain rails could give anyone with a crypto wallet access to Apple or Nvidia shares, is real in theory. In practice, the regulatory framework that makes this product legitimate is also the framework that restricts who can use it.

Tokenized stock projects date back to at least 2018, when platforms including Polymath and early Securitize products began exploring the space. Eight years of iteration, regulatory friction, and a few high-profile failures have produced a product that looks substantially more durable than its predecessors. Whether the NYSE integration materializes, and whether regulators provide the formal guidance the sector still lacks, will determine how far this particular milestone actually travels.