OKX and ICE Schedule Nov. 23 Launch for Tokenized Securities Venue

OKXICE, the joint venture between crypto exchange OKX and Intercontinental Exchange, announced on Nov. 11 that it will open its Tokenized Securities Venue (TSV) to eligible US investors on Nov. 23 ¹. The platform enables continuous, round-the-clock trading of digital securities through automated market maker pools built on Uniswap v4 on X Layer, an Ethereum Layer 2 network operated by OKX ¹.

More than 70 digital assets are scheduled for listing at debut ¹. The lineup includes securities from BitGo, Circle, Coinbase, Robinhood, Better.com, Securitize, and Strategy, which will list common and preferred stocks such as STRC ¹. The venue will also host 59 exchange-traded funds issued by Direxion ¹. Securitize supplies the tokenization infrastructure, issuing tokens backed one-to-one by underlying US equities that retain shareholder entitlements such as voting rights and dividends ¹.

Structure and Market Footprint

The launch operates under the Securities and Exchange Commission's Innovation Exemption, which provides a conditional pathway for permissioned, onchain trading ¹. OKXICE stated that it is neither a registered national securities exchange nor a broker-dealer, and its offering operates under a temporary exemption rather than formal commission registration ¹. Customers must complete identity checks, configure a CeDeFi Wallet, and trade from self-custodial accounts without OKXICE holding private keys ¹.

The planned launch follows previous corporate resistance to tokenized share trading, after twenty-two public companies opted out of OKX-ICE tokenized stock venue access earlier in the platform's development cycle. At the time of writing, broader digital asset markets were subdued, with $BTC trading at $74,043 and $ETH at $2,076 amid a Crypto Fear & Greed index reading of 29.