And 40 days after releasing BUIDL, it became the fastest-growing and now the largest tokenized fund in history.
Congratulations to all the people at
@BlackRock
and
@Securitize
who made this happen; hard work and long-term thinking pay off.
via
@coindesk
I just sent $10K in Bitcoin from Coinbase to Kraken and paid less than $3, whomever thinks that Bitcoin transactions are expensive, has never use a regular bank to do an international transaction.
So, the news is out. We have completed our new funding round led by
@BlackRock
. They are the best partner we can think of, and having them in our company solidifies our partnership.
We look forward to doing more products together. Let's talk about the rest of the investors 1/7
Announcing our $48M series B co-lead by
@blockchaincap
and
@MorganStanley
whom they are also taking a board seat at our company to help us reinvent private capital markets. Thanks to all
@Securitize
employees for making my job so much easier.
The news is out: We have partnered with Blackrock, the largest asset manager in the world, to help them bring their assets on-chain starting with BUIDL. They have invested in our company and joined our board, and I could not be more proud of the team at
@Securitize
that made this…
Securitize is proud to announce we have partnered with
@BlackRock
. Together, we’re launching BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL).
BUIDL will provide investors with the opportunity to earn U.S. dollar yields by subscribing to the fund with Securitize…
The email from the CEO of
@expensify
to their customer database is completely innapropiate irrespective of your political views. Total spam. We use them. Alternatives?
We just announced that
@securitize
issued digital securities can now be placed in your Investment Retirement Account (IRA) in the US to enjoy the tax benefits that only traditional securities had before. Major step forward for the industry. via
@coindesk
Yes
@Algorand
security tokens will be supported for trading at Securitize Markets starting with
@exodus_io
soon and hopefully many more in the future!!
JUST IN: Token issuance tech provider
@Securitize
has registered as a transfer agent with the SEC, a move it says will boost blockchain adoption.
Report by
@Nate_DiCamillo
1) Today we are announcing a major development
@Securitize
strategy. We have signed a definitive agreement to purchase a BD/ATS, subject to regulatory approval, to launch our own secondary market place for security tokens. Thread below 👇
Congratulations to
@FlareNetworks
for their investment from our shareholder
@Ripple
's
@XpringDev
We partnered with them to issue compliant security tokens that can be held seamlessly by
#XRP
users using their
#XRP
key, expanding the universe of assets available to
#XRP
users.
At
@securitize
we are extremely excited and proud to be the digital transfer agent and technology partner for
@SDinwiddie_25
and
@DreamFanShares
world's first Professional Athlete Investment Security Token. Innovation takes courage, kudos.
We have just announced a partnership with our shareholder
@sbigroup
to bring institutional custody to the security token market. The infrastructure gets getting better to drive adoption.
SBI Digital Asset Holdings is to integrate its institutional crypto wallet with the digital securities platform from
@Securitize
, a regulated U.S. firm.
Via
@Tanzeel_Akhtar
Today a major milestone in the security token/digital asset security space and crowdfunding industry it happened, the RegA+ filling for
@exodus_io
was approved by the SEC and their fund raising just started. A thread on the significance of this 👇
Wow, this is so forward thinking, well done Wyoming and Senator Lummis. Yes blockchain based securities removing the need for a centralized clearing house like DTCC is the future. We will do this for private markets first where you don't need to use centralized depositories.
What happened with
#GameStop
this week is basically unprecedented. At one point, there were 38% MORE outstanding claims to GameStop stock than stock that actually existed! Good news: we can fix this with
#blockchain
Today
@OverstockCEO
announced in their earnings call that they are integrating
@Securitize
Digital Securities protocol to
@tzeroblockchain
to be able to trade security tokens issued with our platform. Thanks to
@Noursalehi
for the vote of confidence. Great win for our customers.
Bitcoin might not end up replacing banks but will force them to reduce their outrageous fees the same way that Skype and WhatsApp forced telcos to reduce the cost of SMS and voice calls. We all win. Support it.
So today we finally launched Securitize Markets, our secondary market trading platform for security tokens or digital asset securities operated with the BD/ATS license we purchased a year ago. Let me summarize what this means below 🧵👇 1/20
Announcing our funding round at
@securitize_io
Congrats to the team for making it happen. “Coinbase and others invest $12.75M in project to create 'digital security offerings'” via
@techcrunch
1/4) Today at
@CoinDesk
First Mover we announced that
@Securitize
Capital will be issuing digital asset securities for our two inaugural yield funds one denominated in BTC and another one in USDC with low fees of 0.5% starting minute 46:30
This is what the pipeline from BlackRock Treasuries to stablecoins looks like.
In code.
In goes US Treasuries out comes USDC.
There's $27 trillion in Treasuries.
The banks are opening branches on Ethereum.
Institutionals are coming to the security token space. Welcome to our new set of great investors. "Token Tech firm
@Securitize
Raises $14 Million From Santander, MUFG, Nomura"
John and I have shared a vision of moving traditional finance to the blockchain via tokenization since we first met in 2017 and now we are finally making this a reality together. Thanks to the
@avalancheavax
for the support on the project, hopefully the first of many more.
It took YC 13 years for one of his companies to go public, this is how long the accelerator business takes to be successful and I believe that we will see many more going public afterwards. Unless you have patience you should not get into that business.
We are entering the corporate debt issuance market with the best partner we could think of "Securitize To Join IBM's Blockchain Accelerator To Modernize $82T Corporate Debt Market"
If you aren’t already following Securitize, now’s the time to start. We'll be making a lot of big news about the digitization of regulated finance and increasing access to the private capital markets. And we’re kicking that off Tuesday morning.
No entiendo porque hay que usar una VPN para poder acceder a
@renfe
a comprar un billete desde el extranjero y en cualquier caso tampoco funciona aunque lo hagas, mismos errores, desastre total. Voy a tener que hacer una cara llamada internacional para poder reservar un billete.
@carlosdomingo
Buenas tardes, Carlos. Sentimos mucho las molestias. Por favor, prueba a realizar la compra a través de nuestra app y usando VPN. Saludos.
Among all the noise about Libra, this very significant announcement from
@Ripple
did not get enough attention. Great interview with
@bgarlinghouse
about their MoneyGram investment.
4/4) Last but not least, the digital asset securities for the funds will be issued on the
@Algorand
blockchain. Thanks to the ongoing support of
@stevekokinos
and the Algorand team and
@borderless_cap
principals
@DG__tw
and
@arul_1111i
for helping us build the future of finance
In Miami-Dade we have had the first day without any reported coronavirus case since the pandemic started in March last year. Vaccines work and the pandemic is over here.
At
@Securitize
we are tokenizing a piece of a private equity fund from leading PE firm
@KKR_Co
and put it on the
@avalancheavax
blockchain, major step forward to use public blockchains to democratize access to private capital markets.
via
@WSJ
Hoy se ha publicado mi libro sobre cyrptomonedas y blockchain, lo podeis comprar ya aqui Por menos de 9 euros te pones al dia de uno de los temas mas fascinantes de la actualidad!!
We just made the Top 50 Blockchain companies of
@CBinsights
at the capital markets category. So proud of all the
@Securitize
team. What a way to end the year.
This was a fun recording with
@RyanSAdams
and
@TrustlessState
. I have been a fan of the pod for a long time, but this was my first appearance, and we had a great conversation!! Thanks for the invite
@BanklessHQ
PREMIERE:
@BlackRock
's $10T Bet on Ethereum
The largest institutions in the world are here, and they’re tokenizing their assets
We knew this was big…but after recording this episode we realized this is an even bigger deal than we thought
Find out why 👇
We just announced at the Global Brain Alliance Forum in Tokyo that we are acquiring Japanese leading blockchain company
@Buidlll
founded by Global Brains CEO
@YYurimoto
and
@JUN_Omise
to accelerate our expansion in the Japanese market.
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, largest trust bank in Japan and one of the largest in Asia has issued their first security token using
@securitize
platform, institutional adoption is coming.
English here
Japanese here
We are glad to announce that we are joining the MUFG lead Security Tokens Consortium along industry giants like NTT, KDDI, KPMG or Accenture as the only issuance and management and platform of the 22 members
Few days back I sent $5K from Dubai to Spain and the bank charged me $15 and took two days, today I sent 30 BTC and it took seconds and I paid $0.2. And people still question whether cryptocurrencies are the future?
News are out!! We are officially launching Securitize Markets at 9:30am today, head to to create your trading account using Securitize ID and join the other 400K investors that have already done.
NEW: Security token issuer
@Securitize
has launched Securitize Markets, a secondary trading marketplace to sell and trade security tokens.
Report via
@Nate_DiCamillo
We are proud to announce that the high profile real estate security token deal of the St. Regis hotel in Aspen is moving to the Securitize platform and our digital securities protocol will be powering their token. Another validation of our technology
Congratulations to
@homium
for their launch in partnership with
@Securitize
as their transfer agent and tokenization platform issuing tokens on
@avax
Our first token representing helocs
Homium issues tokenized home equity loans on Avalanche 🔺
The blockchain industry has seen a resurgence in focus on asset tokenization. Through shared appreciation home equity loans,
@homium
introduces a way for homeowners to borrow against their home equity without increasing…
And the new name of our broker dealer has been formally approved, welcome to Securitize Markets, you can now find us on Finra Broker Dealer check site.
Now we should let UK get back into Europe but under the condition that they use the metric system, adopt the euro, drive on the right side of the road, switch the electric plugs to two round pins and serve only cold beer.
I got an email from an investment bank soliciting for a 4M euros funding round for a pretty well know Spanish startup. What kind of company needs to retain an investment bank to raise a round of that size? That the CEO cannot go directly to investors does not look good.
We just announced the acquisition of Pacific Stock Transfer, a traditional transfer agente on what is one of the first acquisitions of a Wall Street firm by one in crypto. Let me explain you what this means for us and the industry 🧵👇 1/11 via
@coindesk
Our acquisition of a BD/ATS for digital asset securities has been approved by regulators and it is now officially closed. Moving to execution. More news on our plans and timeline soon. Stay tuned.
Excited to be joining
@Algorand
at
#Decipher
in Miami on November 29-30th! Register today for this inaugural two-day experience that will bring the community of builders, businesses, investors & innovators together to decipher the future on
#Algorand
:
First two security tokens that will be trading in the US are both issued with
@Securitize
Digital Securities protocol, another first for us and our partner
@OpenfinanceIO
Time to modernize securities trading, complicated in public markets unless DTCC does it but doable on private securities that do not require centralized clearing houses and can use blockchain to settle trades instantly without counter-party risk.
Today at
@Securitize
we are announcing Instant Access, a feature for all our issuers to enable instant compliant trading of digital securities without counter-party risk and no trading fees. Thread 👇
I am a bit surprised by the crypto Twitter community reaction on the SEC guidance. This is what they have said all along. 90% of utility tokens are securities and were sold ilegally. Face it. You took the risk and now figure out how to fix it.
Happy second anniversary to
@Securitize
!! It was incorporated on November 30th 2017. We have come a long way since then in a short period of time thanks to a great team at the company.
How BlackRock’s New Fund on Ethereum Got a Very Crypto Welcome
On
@Unchained_pod
, Securitize CEO
@carlosdomingo
discusses BlackRock's new $100M BUIDL Fund:
🌍 Why they chose Ethereum
🔥 Why public blockchains are better
🏃How Crypto Twitter front ran their announcement
🌪️ The…
And to end the day we got
@nikkei
the largest financial newspaper in Japan covering our series B and even on the print edition!!
米セキュリタイズ、三井住友信託などから52億円調達
And before the day ends (it has been a long one), happy anniversary to
@Securitize
, today we become 3 years old, lets review the major milestones we did each year
Great piece by
@securitize
general counsel Brian Farber busting a myth that has been circulating recently about public blockchains and security tokens "Why blockchain miners shouldn't be considered broker-dealers: the legal view" -
@TheBlock__
First
@securitize_io
new customer of the year, first tokenized warrant and first project in Australia for us. Starting 2019 strong!! "2019 Starts With a New First: A Digital Warrant Offering | Crypto Briefing"
“Unemployment rate in Florida is 5.1%, compared to 9.3% in California, 8.7% in New York and 6.9% in Texas.” And the number of cases or deaths is no different. Clearly strict lockdowns for a long time did not make a difference except destroying the economy.
The last few months at
@Securitize
we have worked with the friends at
@etherscan
to enable a Security Token tag on Ethereum tokens issued that actually represent a real security. You can see the ones that have been already verified here.