Securitize adds Stellar as tokenization race heats up

Tokenization platform Securitize has added Stellar to the blockchains it supports, joining Ethereum, Solana and Avalanche. The deal was announced at Meridian 2026, the Stellar Development Foundation's annual conference in Lisbon, CoinDesk reports.

Why it matters

Securitize turns real-world assets such as shares and debt into tokens and is best known for issuing and running BlackRock's BUIDL tokenized money-market fund. Adding a chain is not a headline on its own; the reason it chose Stellar is more telling. The companies pitched Stellar as fast and scalable, and, crucially for regulated issuers, as a network where assets can be set up with built-in know-your-customer checks, clawbacks and sanctions controls.

Those features are what fund managers need before putting securities on a public chain, and Stellar already has the users to prove it: Franklin Templeton runs a tokenized money-market fund there, and MoneyGram moves money across it every day. Janus Henderson also chose Stellar this week for a licensed Nasdaq-100 fund on-chain.

Our take

Multi-chain support is becoming table stakes for tokenization platforms. Issuers want to go where their investors and partners already are, and a compliance-first chain lowers the legal friction. The harder test is liquidity: a token is only as useful as the market around it, and tokenized Securitize shares themselves recently lost the top spot to Circle-linked tokens. New to the concept? Start with what tokenization is and how tokenized stocks work.

Securitize (SECZ) listed on the New York Stock Exchange in July, issuing its own shares on Solana and Avalanche at the same time. The stock touched $13.70 on its first day and closed at $8.16 on Tuesday.