Securitize Capital LLC has registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as an investment adviser, giving the newly public tokenization company another regulated function for serving asset managers and institutional clients in the United States.
The registration, disclosed Monday, allows Securitize Capital to provide investment advice under the federal regulatory framework that governs registered investment advisers. In practical terms, it gives the Securitize subsidiary a route to design and oversee tokenized investment strategies for eligible clients, subject to its SEC registration, disclosures, and advisory agreements.
The move expands a platform that already includes an SEC-registered broker-dealer operating an Alternative Trading System, an SEC-registered transfer agent, fund administration operations, and Securitize Fund Services, which handles third-party reporting. Securitize is publicly traded under the ticker SECZ following its July 2 merger with Cantor Equity Partners II.
a regulated route into tokenized portfolios
Securitize has focused its business on bringing familiar financial products, including funds and private-market instruments, onto blockchain networks. Tokenization records ownership or fund shares on a blockchain, potentially allowing assets to be issued, transferred and serviced through digital infrastructure rather than through separate legacy recordkeeping systems.
Adding an advisory business connects Securitize more directly to the portfolio-construction side of that process. The company can now seek to work with institutions that want exposure to tokenized funds or other digital securities but need an adviser operating within the SEC’s registered framework.
That function differs from the company’s broker-dealer and transfer-agent businesses. A broker-dealer can facilitate securities transactions, while a transfer agent maintains ownership records and supports corporate actions such as distributions. An investment adviser provides advice about securities and, depending on its client arrangements and authority, can manage portfolios.
The combination gives Securitize a more complete set of regulated services around tokenized securities. Asset managers could use the platform for issuance, recordkeeping, secondary-market trading and fund administration while working with an affiliated adviser on strategy and allocation. Each activity remains subject to its own regulatory obligations and entity-level permissions.
buidl remains central to Securitize’s tokenization business
Securitize’s most prominent tokenized product relationship is with BlackRock’s USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund, known by its ticker BUIDL. The fund holds cash, U.S. Treasury bills and repurchase agreements, and distributes its yield to holders through blockchain-based infrastructure.
According to Securitize, the company had surpassed $5 billion in assets on its platform by July 2026. BUIDL represented a substantial share of that figure, with the fund recently exceeding $2.6 billion in total value, according to the company’s disclosures.
BUIDL has been made available across six blockchain networks. The multi-chain approach is relevant for institutions that want tokenized cash-equivalent instruments to be usable where they conduct on-chain transactions, rather than moving capital through a single network or back through conventional settlement rails.
A tokenized Treasury fund does not carry the same market profile as a freely traded cryptocurrency. Its value is tied to the fund’s underlying assets and its operating structure, though holders still face product-specific considerations including eligibility rules, liquidity terms, smart-contract and custody arrangements, and the legal treatment of tokenized fund shares.
For Securitize, products such as BUIDL also create a commercial case for operating several regulated lines under one umbrella. Issuance and transfer-agent services support the fund’s administration, while trading infrastructure and advisory capabilities can support institutions seeking to use tokenized cash instruments as part of treasury, collateral or portfolio-management operations.
competition is growing around advisory services
Securitize is entering an area where other digital-asset firms have been building registered advisory operations. Galaxy Digital operates Galaxy Digital Capital Management LLC, an advisory unit serving clients in the digital-asset market.
Anchorage Digital also expanded its presence in the registered investment adviser sector in December 2025 when it acquired Securitize For Advisors, a wealth-management platform originally developed by Securitize for registered investment advisers. That transaction separated one adviser-focused product from Securitize’s wider tokenization and securities-infrastructure business.
The new registration places Securitize Capital closer to institutions seeking a regulated provider capable of handling both tokenized products and the advice surrounding them. It may also intensify competition among firms aiming to become the operational layer between traditional asset managers and public blockchain networks.
institutional demand shifts toward operational infrastructure
The expansion comes as tokenized Treasury products have become one of the more commercially established uses of blockchain-based securities. Their appeal rests less on speculation than on operational features: on-chain ownership records, potentially faster settlement processes, programmable transfers and the ability to use fund shares within digital-asset market infrastructure where permitted.
Those features do not automatically eliminate the frictions associated with institutional adoption. Large financial firms must still address custody, compliance controls, transfer restrictions, client suitability, accounting treatment and the interoperability of different blockchain networks. A firm holding separate registrations for advisory, brokerage, transfer-agent and administrative services can reduce the number of external providers required for some parts of that workflow.
Carlos Domingo, Securitize’s chief executive officer, has positioned the company around that regulated-infrastructure model. The investment-adviser registration advances that strategy by extending Securitize from the issuance and servicing of tokenized securities into advice on how institutional clients may use them in portfolios.
The immediate test will be whether Securitize can convert the additional regulatory capability into advisory mandates from asset managers and institutions already exploring tokenized Treasury funds, private credit products and other blockchain-based securities. Its existing role in BUIDL gives the company a high-profile reference point, while the advisory registration gives it a new way to participate in clients’ allocation decisions rather than only the underlying asset infrastructure.
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