Of the 62 companies OKXICE initially picked for trading, 43 — about 69% — have now objected, according to a CoinDesk tally. Seven other objectors were outside that original selection.
Andrew Cuomo, OKXICE’s co-chairman and former New York governor, said during a Friday press conference that many companies wanted to see how the market worked before joining.
“I think the more people become familiar with tokenization, and the more they see the benefits of tokenization, I think you’ll see more and more companies participate,” Cuomo said. “But we are at the very beginning of the rollout of fundamentally different market structure.”
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No disclosed objection
There are 19 companies from the original selection thathave no disclosed objection as of Friday’s notice. Those include Apple AAPL$341.00, Amazon AMZN$253.13, Tesla TSLA$411.34, SpaceX SPCX$141.03, Netflix (NFLX), Palantir (PLTR) and Strategy MSTR$135.95.
The others are Robinhood HOOD$86.94, Coinbase COIN$141.98, Circle CRCL$75.53, SoFi Technologies SOFI$17.52, Super Micro Computer (SMCI), Lam Research (LRCX), ServiceNow (NOW), GE Vernova (GEV), Boeing (BA), Home Depot (HD), Securitize (SECZ) and BitGo BTGO$5.3600.
Absence from the objection list does not establish that a company has endorsed the venue or that its shares will be available at launch. Tokenization specialist Securitize and digital asset custodian BitGo previously told CoinDesk they did not plan to object.