Securitize plans to go public via SPAC, with a valuation of $1.25 billion

ChainCatcher news, Securitize announced that it will go public through a merger with Cantor Fitzgerald's SPAC (Cantor Equity Partners II), with a valuation of $1.25 billion.

The company will be listed on the NASDAQ exchange under the ticker symbol "SECZ," and plans to tokenize its equity to enable trading and transfer on the blockchain. Existing investors such as ARK Invest and BlackRock will retain all their shares, while the transaction includes $225 million in PIPE financing led by Arche, ParaFi Capital, and others. This listing will make Securitize the first publicly traded company in the U.S. to provide end-to-end securities tokenization infrastructure.