X account: This isn't surprising. The incentive for issuers to consent to tokenization of their stock under the SEC's Innovation Exemption are weak –– they may get 24/7 trading, but that trading occurs on US venues rather than in new global markets, so there's no net new demand. But issuer…

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This isn't surprising. The incentive for issuers to consent to tokenization of their stock under the SEC's Innovation Exemption are weak –– they may get 24/7 trading, but that trading occurs on US venues rather than in new global markets, so there's no net new demand.

But issuer objections aren't going to stop this train. There are many legal pathways to bring securities onchain that don't require consent and that aren't subject to the SEC's jurisdiction. Someone could even build a permissionless protocol that does so.

So, if the SEC wants to maintain oversight of US securities markets, it needs to create an approach for tokenization that delivers the full benefits of onchain markets –– atomic settlement, 24/7 trading, global liquidity, etc.

Supporting permissionless trading of securities through DeFi systems would accomplish that goal, and doing so would create the incentives for issuers that the innovation exemption lacks.