OKX and ICE tap Uniswap v4 hooks for a tokenized stock venue

The company that owns the New York Stock Exchange’s parent and one of crypto’s biggest exchanges are building a stock venue on Uniswap. OKXICE, the joint venture between Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) and OKX, is launching a Uniswap v4 hook meant to improve market structure and draw in new assets and users. The hook sits at the center of a planned Tokenized Securities Venue, or TSV, that could put blue-chip equities into permissioned DeFi pools trading around the clock. What OKXICE filed and how the venue would work On October 4, 2026, OKXICE submitted a public notice to the SEC laying out its plan to launch the TSV. The filing leans on the SEC’s Innovation Exemption, which the regulator issued on September 17, 2026. The venue plans to list tokenized versions of over 60 US National Market System (NMS) stocks. Apple, Nvidia, and Tesla are among the names, and each would be paired with stablecoins. Trading would run 24/7. Trades would happen in permissioned Uniswap v4 automated market maker pools deployed on X Layer, OKX’s blockchain. In Uniswap v4, a hook is custom code attached to a pool that can add rules to how it behaves. OKXICE is using that architecture for customizable compl...