The US Securities and Exchange Commission has given a subsidiary of the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) a highly coveted “no-action” letter, allowing it to offer a new securities market tokenization service. The DTCC said on Thursday that its subsidiary, the Depository Trust Company (DTC), was given the go-ahead to launch “a new service to tokenize real-world, DTC-custodied assets in a controlled production environment.” The DTC will tokenize a “set of highly liquid assets” including the Russell 1000 index, exchange-traded funds tracking major indexes, US Treasury bills, bonds and notes, with the service expected to roll out in the second half of 2026.
Tokenizing the US securities market has the potential to yield transformational benefits such as collateral mobility, new trading modalities, 24/7 access and programmable assets.
