Apple and Nvidia Come to Solana as Securitize Stocks Launch

Securitize launched Securitize Stocks on Oct. 8, putting 12 U.S. equity tickers onchain on Solana, Apple and Nvidia among them, with each token backed one for one by an underlying share. Trading runs on Securitize's registered broker-dealer platform, settles in USDC, and is offered to eligible investors in the United States, the EU and other permitted jurisdictions.

The initial list is AAPL, MSFT, NVDA, GOOG, TSLA, META, AMZN, NFLX, CRCL, SPCX, MSTR and PLTR. Solana is the launch network, not the finished home for the product. Two venues named in the same announcement have not opened.

What Each Token Actually Is

A Securitize Stock is a security entitlement under UCC Article 8, held through Securitize Markets, LLC, a FINRA and SIPC member. Each is backed one for one by a share, preserves dividends and, where the underlying class carries them, voting rights. The shares behind the tokens will not be lent out.

Two limits shape what a holder owns. Holders are not registered shareholders of the underlying issuer unless they convert, and the issuers of those securities have not sponsored or endorsed the tokens. The structure is a convertible entitlement token (CET), which gives a holder a path onto the issuer's register if the company later adopts issuer-sponsored tokenization.

Read plainly: the claim on an Apple or Nvidia share runs through Securitize Markets and the terms of the entitlement, not through a Solana program.

Solana Rails, USDC Settlement and Jump Trading

At launch the tokens are available through Securitize's existing Solana PropAMM, with Jump Trading as market maker supporting liquidity, price discovery and execution. Transactions settle in USDC. Trading starts during extended hours, with plans to move toward 24/7 availability, so this is not a round-the-clock market yet.

Because buyers settle in USDC, Solana's direct role at launch is narrower than the ticker count suggests. The chain carries the tokens and small network fees paid in SOL, not the dollars moving through them. Securitize's own tokenized common stock has traded on Solana since its July NYSE listing, so the rails are already in use.

Ripple Prime plans to support the launch and to explore adding the assets to its broader institutional trading ecosystem.

How It Differs From the Offshore Wrappers

Solana already has tokenized equities. xStocks, a framework for non-US investors issued by Swiss-regulated Backed Finance AG, launched on June 30, 2025, and issues each token at 1:1 parity to a share held in regulated custody. Its tickers follow a convention of the underlying symbol plus a lowercase x, such as AAPLx and NVDAx. Access is restricted for residents of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and sanctioned jurisdictions, and every user must pass KYC through a participating platform. Dividends are automatically reinvested into token balances rather than paid as cash.

xStocks accounts for roughly 84% of tokenized equity supply on Solana as of mid-2026. Wallet counts for its Apple token, AAPLx, rose from about 15,400 on 11 July to about 43,000 on 8 October.

The sharpest statement of the difference comes from the issuer itself:

Tokenized stocks should give investors more than a price on a wrapper that tracks a stock and is only offered offshore.

Carlos Domingo, Securitize's Chairman and CEO, made that argument in the launch release. The mechanical differences follow from it: an entitlement held at a broker-dealer, open to U.S. investors, with a conversion path onto the register rather than only a price that tracks a share.

The Venues Are Not Live Yet

The release names an NYSE digital trading venue and the OKXICE Tokenized Securities Venue as future homes for the product, and states that both have not launched. Trading there is subject to regulatory approval and venue review, and may not occur.

The backdrop is the SEC's Innovation Exemption, issued Sept. 17, 2026. The order grants temporary, conditional exemptive relief to Tokenized Securities Venues from the definition of "exchange" in the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and lets those venues trade tokenized NMS stock using permissioned AMM liquidity pools. The relief expires five years after publication. Before a venue makes available a tokenized NMS stock tokenized by an unaffiliated third party, it must give written notice and an opportunity to object to the issuer of the underlying stock.

What Securitize Has Not Disclosed

Several practical questions are unanswered. The release does not define "eligible investors", so it is not clear whether retail buyers qualify or whether access is limited to accredited or institutional buyers. No fees and no minimum trade sizes are given. It also does not say which of the 12 tickers are live on day one.

No trading volume or holder count for Securitize Stocks has been published, so adoption cannot be measured yet. The Oct. 8 release does not mention Jupiter, which earlier reporting had tied to retail and institutional access.

For scale, tokenized stocks across the market were worth about $3.2 billion, up 15% in the past month, per RWA.xyz.

The measurable part of this launch is structure, not flow. Apple and Nvidia exposure now exists on Solana as a broker-dealer entitlement with a conversion path, and the venues meant to trade it around the clock are still waiting on approval.