Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo says tokenization won’t go mainstream without non-crypto buyers

Carlos Domingo has a simple thesis about tokenization’s future: the crypto crowd alone can’t carry it. The Securitize CEO took the stage at the Avalanche Summit in New York City this week to make the case that real-world asset tokenization only scales if it attracts buyers who have never touched a hardware wallet. A company putting its own money where its mouth is Securitize went public on the New York Stock Exchange on July 2, 2026, trading under the ticker SECZ after completing a SPAC merger with Cantor Equity Partners II. That deal valued the firm at roughly $1.25 billion. Then it did something unusual for a freshly minted public company: it tokenized a portion of its own common shares, worth between $266 million and $295 million, on both Avalanche and Solana. The firm’s tokenized assets under management have been climbing sharply. Securitize crossed the $5 billion mark in the third quarter of 2026, up from just over $4 billion earlier in the year. That growth is being driven in large part by heavyweight clients. BlackRock, which runs the BUIDL tokenized fund through Securitize’s infrastructure, and Apollo are among the institutions on its roster. The regulatory scaffolding The ...