OKX × ICE Plan 24/7 Tokenized Stock Venue: SEC Notice, Not Approval

OKXICE, the 50/50 joint venture between OKX and NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), has notified the SEC that it plans to run a 24/7 venue for 63 tokenized U.S. stocks. It is a notice, not an approval, and trading can't start before Nov 3 at the earliest.

The Oct 4 notice, filed under the SEC's Sept 17 "Innovation Exemption," describes permissioned Uniswap v4 liquidity pools on OKX's X Layer blockchain, where verified wallets would trade tokenized Nvidia, Tesla, Apple, SpaceX, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Coinbase, Circle and more against USDC, USDG or USDT. An unnamed third-party "Tokenizer" would hold the real shares one-for-one through a broker-dealer, with dividends and voting rights passed through. Cerebras has already objected to having its stock tokenized, and tight SEC volume caps keep the experiment small. Eleven days after NYSE signed its tokenized-stock MOU with Blockchain.com on Sept 23, ICE's other crypto partnership has moved to an actual filing. Catch up on that story in S2E11: NYSE × Blockchain.com.

What you'll learn:

• What OKXICE actually filed, and why "notified the SEC" isn't "approved"
• How a permissioned DeFi pool with soulbound-token access is supposed to trade real stocks
• Who issues the tokens (an unnamed Tokenizer), and what holders would get
• The 30-day clocks, issuer objections like Cerebras's, and the 0.25% volume cap
• The risks the notice itself flags: price gaps overnight, no clearing agency, admin keys, SIPC uncertainty
• How this fits ICE's two tokenization tracks, after S2E11 and S2E2

Keywords: OKXICE, OKX, Intercontinental Exchange, ICE, NYSE, tokenized stocks, Tokenized Securities Venue, SEC Innovation Exemption, Uniswap v4, X Layer, USDC, USDG, USDT, Cerebras, Andrew Cuomo, Star Xu, 24/7 trading.

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