By Abdelaziz Fathi
Publication Date: 2026-10-18 15:38:00
Nine companies, including Broadcom, CoreWeave, Verizon and UnitedHealth Group, have formally objected to plans by OKXICE to offer tokenized versions of their shares, delivering an early setback to the crypto exchange’s push into US equity trading.
The objections appear in an October 15 public notice from OKXICE, a joint venture between OKX and Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the owner of the New York Stock Exchange. The venture previously identified 63 stocks it intended to support under the Securities and Exchange Commission’s new Innovation Exemption.
The refusals mark an important early test of whether publicly traded companies are willing to have their shares traded on blockchain-based platforms operated outside the conventional stock exchange framework.
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