The companies, products and regulatory developments shaping the broker industry.
The OKX–ICE venture plans a 23 November launch with more than 70 instruments, permissioned wallets and share-linked rights. Issuer participation and individual instrument terms define the offer.
Hadron issuers gain an option to use RedStone valuation inputs and auction-based settlement infrastructure, but T+0 is conditional rather than a universal delivery guarantee.
A month-long trial of the regulated 21X order book on LayerZero’s private-permissioned Zero network reported a 45-fold performance comparison; the result is a pilot metric, not live production throughput.
Broadridge, Computershare, Equiniti and Superstate join NYSE’s transfer-agent network, but agreements to support issuer-sponsored tokens are not an approved live exchange.
The issuer reports $1 billion of assets and more than 1,500 tokenised instruments. Its minting and share-conversion routes have separate eligibility and operating terms.
The arrangement links investment cash flows to a separately issued Hong Kong dollar-backed stablecoin.
A joint study puts the legal effect of ledger entries at the centre of the Netherlands’ tokenisation plans.
The chief executive’s reported timetable adds a financing ambition to Alpaca’s existing brokerage and token-conversion infrastructure. Funding securities inventory and moving that inventory through a network solve different parts of institutional trading.
Binance’s October milestone combines a larger certificate range with $40bn of cumulative trading. Issuer rights, dividend reinvestment and trading hours shape how bStocks compare with conventional shares.
The September expansion builds on Canadian and institutional launches earlier in 2026. Its operating proposition covers statements, tax processing, asset servicing and the records linking digital holdings to customer accounts.