U.S. SEC Expected to Announce Framework for Stock Token Trading Without Corporate Consent This Week—Report

Towards the Deregulation of Tokenized Stock Trading

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to announce a new 'Innovation Waiver' system this week that will permit the trading of tokenized U.S. stock assets. According to a Bloomberg report on the 19th, the new framework will allow third parties to issue tokens without the consent of the issuing companies.

This waiver system will enable the provision of rights equivalent to traditional stocks, such as voting rights and dividends, under certain conditions in decentralized finance (DeFi)...