Bankless · Thursday, July 23, 2026
Securitize functions as a registered transfer agent, a broker-dealer, and a fund administrator, allowing it to tokenize assets, trade them, and manage them. This multi-faceted approach enables services beyond simple tokenization, such as peer-to-peer transfers and daily dividend payouts for tokenized funds.
“So first and foremost, we are a transfer agent... But a transfer agent is basically an SEC registered entity that can actually take securities from an issuer.”
“Besides that, we are also a broker dealer and that makes a big difference because we can not only tokenize things and put things on chain, but we can actually trade them.”
“So we're basically three different businesses within one, the transfer agent tokenization platform, the broker dealer, and then the fan administration.”