Cantor Equity Partners II shareholders voted Monday to approve a merger with Securitize, clearing the final pre-close hurdle before the combined company lists on the New York Stock Exchange on July 2 as Securitize Corp., the first publicly traded tokenization company in the United States.
The vote passed with 12,432,037 shares in favor and 2,151,147 against, according to a Form 8-K filed with the SEC by Cantor Equity Partners II on Monday. The business combination is expected to close Tuesday, July 1, with shares trading under the ticker SECZ the following day. Gross proceeds from the transaction, including a $225 million private investment in public equity (PIPE), are expected to reach approximately $400 million.
Securitize operates as a regulated tokenization platform serving institutional asset managers. It holds SEC registrations as a broker-dealer, transfer agent, and fund administrator, and is the issuance platform for BlackRock's BUIDL fund, one of the largest tokenized money-market products on-chain. The company also provides infrastructure to Apollo, Hamilton Lane, KKR, and VanEck, with more than $4 billion in assets under management as of April 2026, per company disclosures.
Securitize is also the only company licensed to operate regulated digital-securities infrastructure across both the United States and Europe, following authorization under the EU's DLT Pilot Regime.
Public Markets Access
The NYSE listing gives asset managers and banks a publicly traded reference point for tokenization infrastructure. Until now, Securitize operated as a private company, with no public equity vehicle. The combined entity, Securitize Corp., will carry a balance sheet funded by the $400 million in merger proceeds, available for expanding infrastructure and product capacity.
The "first publicly traded tokenization company" framing rests on Securitize's regulated infrastructure positioning, distinct from protocols or tokenized-asset issuers. Converge's prior coverage noted the PIPE was oversubscribed and final redemptions came in below 30%, which CEO Carlos Domingo had attributed to strong institutional demand despite early skepticism about the SPAC vehicle.
Expanding the Stack
In the months leading up to the close, Securitize announced a collaboration with the NYSE to support tokenized securities infrastructure development, added secondary trading rails for tokenized equities through Jump Crypto and Jupiter on Solana, and issued Hamilton Lane's HLSCOPE private-credit fund on TRON as its first multi-chain institutional product beyond Ethereum. Securitize also received FINRA approval to custody tokenized securities, completing what the company describes as a full on-chain issuance-to-custody infrastructure stack.
The NYSE listing adds a public equity layer to that stack. Asset managers that have used Securitize's infrastructure privately can now buy shares in the entity operating that infrastructure alongside their institutional product access.