Tokenized finance spent the week moving inside regulated rails
The SEC set terms for tokenized stock venues, DriveWealth won a MiCA licence, and the Czech central bank issued a bond on a ledger.
- Uniswap Labs says the SEC granted a five-year exemption on September 17, 2026 for Tokenized Securities Venues, which trade tokenized NMS stock through permissioned liquidity pools. Self-reported m:…9927
- DriveWealth's European affiliate was authorised by the Bank of Lithuania as a crypto-asset service provider under MiCA, building on its existing MiFID II licence, the company says. Self-reported m:…9724
- The Czech National Bank issued its first bond in tokenized form using distributed ledger technology, testing issuance, settlement and repo transactions in October and November 2026, the bank says. Self-reported m:…5386
The SEC sets terms for tokenized stocks
Three separate pieces of financial plumbing moved onto regulated rails in the same week. Uniswap Labs says the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission granted a five-year exemption on September 17, 2026, for a new category of venue called a Tokenized Securities Venue, which trades tokenized NMS stock through permissioned liquidity pools. Venues that meet the order's conditions do not need to register as exchanges or alternative trading systems. m:…9927
The conditions are the point. Uniswap Labs says qualifying venues must meet conditions including public fee disclosure, access controls, symbol and volume caps, and trading halts, and that venues must give issuers 30 days' notice and a chance to object before their stock trades. Uniswap v4 supports the customisation through hooks, including a Permissioned Pool hook, which let operators decide who can trade, what can trade, and when. More than $20 billion in stock tokens has traded on the Uniswap Protocols to date, the company says. m:…9927
The market these venues would serve is large: the U.S. stock market is a $79 trillion market, and in August 2026 ten tokenized stocks and ETFs started trading against SPY on Robinhood Chain. Over 40 stocks now have SPY pools on Robinhood Chain, with over $900 million in volume across 130,000 wallets. Uniswap Protocols has processed over $4.5 trillion in volume across more than 30 blockchains since 2018. m:…9927
A licence in Europe, a bond on a ledger
In Europe, DriveWealth's European affiliate, UAB DriveWealth Europe, has been authorised by the Bank of Lithuania as a crypto-asset service provider under the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation, building on its existing MiFID II licence. The company says its crypto-asset services will become available within the new year, and that it has a partnership with Ripple for RLUSD stablecoin settlement, cross-border payments and digital asset custody. DriveWealth is a registered broker-dealer and member of FINRA and SIPC. m:…9724
The Czech National Bank issued its first bond in tokenized form using distributed ledger technology, testing the full issuance process inside its CNB Lab hub. The bank tested bond transfers, purchases and sales against payment, and repo transactions, with a domestic commercial bank as counterparty, and said it verified that it can use the infrastructure for monetary policy operations and international reserve management. The volumes were small, in the tens of thousands of koruna, and the tests took place in October and November 2026. Governor Aleš Michl said the goal is to create a large market for koruna-denominated assets that are easier to trade than German Bunds. The bank says distributed ledger technology enables 24/7 settlement of securities transactions without unnecessary administration, and the bonds were issued on infrastructure operated by the Central Securities Depository. The bank recently invested in a euro-denominated government bond that exists exclusively on distributed ledger technology, and a year ago it launched a test portfolio of digital assets exploring bitcoin, stablecoins and tokenized deposits. m:…5386
The common thread
The common thread is permission. Tokenized stocks are not trading on open, anonymous pools; they trade where issuers can object and operators can halt trading. A crypto licence in Lithuania sits on top of a MiFID II licence, not beside it. A central bank is testing a ledger bond at tiny volumes before it trusts the rails with real money. Each step is small on its own. Together they describe a market being built inside the rules rather than around them. m:…9927 m:…9724 m:…5386
What is still unresolved
- Which venues will apply to operate as Tokenized Securities Venues, and how many issuers object to their stock trading on them.
- When DriveWealth's crypto-asset services actually launch, and which services come first.
- Whether the Czech National Bank scales its DLT bond tests beyond tens of thousands of koruna.
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