NEW YORK, July 7 — The figure that matters: $1.25 billion. That is the valuation at which Securitize, a digital-asset platform, went public via a special-purpose acquisition company merger. The deal raised approximately $400 million and landed the company on the New York Stock Exchange on July 2 under the ticker SECZ.
The bottom line: Securitize used a SPAC to get the regulatory and capital foundation for a blockchain experiment it is already running on its own stock. By the numbers, the SPAC merger gave Securitize a traditional public listing.
Then the company turned around and tokenized $295 million of its own shares on the Solana and Avalanche blockchains. The sequence is a concrete example of the convergence between conventional finance and decentralized finance, or DeFi. Investors will note that the SPAC route remains a viable mechanism for digital-asset firms that want the credibility of a NYSE listing.
Securitize raised approximately $400 million through the merger, a sum that provides the capital buffer to operate as a public company while it pursues tokenization strategies. The tokenization of $295 million of Securitize’s own stock on Solana and Avalanche is the part of the story that matters for the broader market.
The company is effectively eating its own cooking — putting its shares on public blockchains where they can trade or be used in DeFi protocols. This is not a theoretical white paper; it is live, and it is backed by the balance sheet of a NYSE-listed firm. Securitize’s move represents a test case for whether tokenized equities can gain traction outside the traditional brokerage and clearinghouse infrastructure.
The company chose Solana and Avalanche, two proof-of-stake networks.
A SPAC as a stepping stone
The special-purpose acquisition company structure worked here as a mechanism to get public-market access. Securitize merged with a shell company that already had a listing commitment, raising the approximately $400 million from investors who backed the combination. The resulting public entity then had the regulatory standing to list on the NYSE, a venue that demands compliance with SEC reporting and corporate governance standards.
That regulatory foundation is what enabled the tokenization. Without the SPAC merger, Securitize would have remained a private company with limited ability to issue tokenized shares that public-market investors could trust.
The SPAC gave it the stamp of a regulated public issuer. The $1.25 billion valuation places Securitize in the upper tier of digital-asset companies that have gone public. The figure reflects investor confidence in the thesis that tokenization of real-world assets — stocks, bonds, real estate — will become a major business line for Wall Street.
What to watch next
The key question for investors is whether Securitize can scale its tokenization beyond its own stock. The company has demonstrated the technical and regulatory feasibility of putting $295 million of shares on Solana and Avalanche. The next step would be to tokenize assets for other issuers — a move that would turn the SPAC listing from a one-time fundraising event into an ongoing business model.
The NYSE listing under SECZ gives Securitize the visibility and capital to pursue that expansion. The SPAC merger now looks like the foundation for a broader push into the convergence of traditional finance and DeFi.
The numbers — $1.25 billion valuation, approximately $400 million raised, $295 million tokenized — tell the story of a company that used an old Wall Street vehicle to build a new blockchain bridge.
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