NYSE parent @ICE_Markets and @okx's 50/50 joint venture, OKXICE, has notified the SEC of plans to launch a tokenized securities venue under the agency's temporary Innovation Exemption. The proposed venue would offer retail and institutional investors 24/7 secondary trading in tokenized US NMS stocks through @Uniswap v4 liquidity pools on @XLayerOfficial, an @ethereum L2. Access is permissioned through KYC/KYB, sanctions screening, whitelisting and wallet-bound credentials, while the underlying chain remains public and permissionless. The tokens are intended to represent one-for-one security entitlements to underlying shares held through a broker-dealer. The notice lists 64 proposed stocks, including NVIDIA, Tesla and Apple, paired with USDC, USDG or USDT. Ethereum is the home of onchain finance.

First speakers for Ethereum Institutional Forum London. Justin Drake (@drakefjustin), @ethereum researcher since 2017 and lead architect of Lean Ethereum, on post-quantum Ethereum: the plan, and what it means for institutions preparing for a post-quantum world. Ansgar Dietrichs (@adietrichs), Executive Director of @ethlabs_org, and former Protocol Lead at @ethereumfndn, on the Ethereum L1 roadmap to 2029 and what it means for institutions building on it. Theo Golden (@TFGolden), Head of Tokenized Product, International at Broadridge, who launched BAGEY at Baillie Gifford, the UK's first fully native tokenised fund on Ethereum, on what it takes to bring a traditional fund onchain. Geoffrey Kendrick, Global Head of Digital Assets Research at @StanChart, with 20+ years in global markets research, on how institutional capital is moving into digital assets and where Ethereum fits. More to come.