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Decentralized exchange protocols that use pooled liquidity and algorithmic pricing formulas, rather than order books, to set trade prices.
Perpetuals.com filed a notice on Wednesday to run a tokenized U.S. stock venue under the SEC's five-year exemption, the second company to do so. Trading could begin in mid-November at the earliest. So far the exemption has drawn two sets of plans.
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SEC's September 17 exemption gives eligible tokenized shares full shareholder rights while letting their trading venues pick their own price feeds. Douro Labs asked SEC staff on October 9 for provider-neutral standards to judge those feeds.
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OKX and NYSE owner ICE have filed with the SEC to run a 24/7 venue for more than 60 tokenized U.S. stocks traded against stablecoins. How useful it turns out to be depends on how deep its liquidity pools stay on weekends, when no cash market is open for arbitrage.
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OKXICE, a joint venture of OKX and ICE, plans to trade more than 63 tokenized US stocks in Uniswap v4 liquidity pools. Uniswap's pricing formula would stay unchanged while a compliance token gates access, all under a temporary SEC exemption.
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PancakeSwap is giving liquidity providers 90% of Infinity's pool fees on Robinhood Chain and Arc as cumulative volume passes $150 billion. Its own milestones show daily volume since April 2026 averaging about a third below the first year.
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SEC's Innovation Exemption gives permissioned AMM trading of tokenized US-listed stocks five years of conditional relief, to September 2031. Every stock needs its issuer's consent to trade, so listed companies control how much evidence on DeFi's efficiency claims the window produces.
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SEC exemptions issued September 17 let permissioned AMM pools trade tokenized US stocks for five years without exchange, ATS or dealer registration. The order is interim and open to comment, so teams building now are designing to AMM-only, OFAC-screened terms the SEC can still rewrite.
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The SEC's Sept. 17 order lets venues trade tokenized stocks in permissioned AMM pools without registering as exchanges, if the token passes the underlying's dividends and votes to the holder. Robinhood's 200 tokens are Jersey debt paper.
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CryptoBriefing puts Uniswap at 73% of stock-token deposits on Robinhood Chain and $80m of the $192.6m locked in tokenized equities. With no spreads in the report, deposit share is the only evidence of dominance.
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The order carves out a new category called a tokenized securities venue, caps how many symbols and how much volume it can trade, and requires public smart contracts while the Commission drafts permanent rules.
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LONG's own figures put more than $425 million of stock-paired volume against almost $12 million of locked liquidity. Angelo Aspris blames thin reserves for a tokenized HIMS price that came apart from the real one.
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Hayden Adams calls tokenization the next test for automated market makers. The composition of the $18 billion already on-chain, and a fresh SIFMA warning, suggest it may not go his way.
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