Main Takeaways
- tZERO is expanding its regulated digital securities infrastructure to support Sui, including issuance, custody, transfer agency, trading, and settlement.
- Sui’s object-centric architecture allows permissions and participant requirements to be programmed directly into digital assets.
- tZERO’s expansion gives institutions, issuers, and developers more infrastructure for building regulated tokenized markets on Sui.
tZERO Group, Inc., a leader in blockchain-based financial infrastructure, today announced that its regulated digital securities platform will now be fully integrated with Sui, bringing support for issuance, transfer agency, custody, trading, and settlement to the ecosystem. The expansion gives institutions and issuers more options for bringing regulated securities onchain through tZERO’s tokenization and compliance framework, while also introducing Sui-native developers, builders, and ecosystem partners to tZERO’s broker-dealer-led platform for support across projects that require compliant access to US infrastructure.
Moving securities onchain involves more than tokenizing an asset. Institutions still need to manage how those assets are issued, held, transferred, traded, and settled within established regulatory frameworks. Thanks to this collaboration, tZERO is bringing seven-plus years of regulated digital securities infrastructure to Sui, backed by SEC registrations and FINRA membership.
Mustafa Al Niama, Head of Capital Markets at Mysten Labs and former Americas Head of Digital Assets at Goldman Sachs, added: “Institutional adoption of tokenized assets depends on infrastructure that bridges blockchain innovation with regulatory frameworks. tZERO’s expansion to Sui gives issuers and developers access to regulated issuance, custody, and trading capabilities designed to support that transition, while also taking advantage of Sui’s unique architecture that is built to support institutional workflows.”
Building infrastructure for regulated digital securities
For regulated financial applications, programmability is only part of the picture. Sui’s object-centric architecture allows permissions and participant requirements to be built directly into an asset and enforced onchain. For digital securities, this can support controls such as transfer restrictions, whitelisting, and participation verification
The underlying blockchain also needs to support the day to day workflows of financial markets. Sui’s high-throughput, low-latency execution can support near real-time settlement, ownership updates, and corporate actions, while tZERO provides the regulated market infrastructure surrounding those assets.
“Sui’s object-centric architecture offers a unique approach to regulated digital assets by making assets and their permissions programmable,” said Alan Konevsky, Chief Executive Officer of tZERO. “Combined with Sui’s performance, that design creates a strong foundation for the development of next generation regulated financial applications onchain as we look to make our end-to-end infrastructure stack natively interoperable with best-of-breed technology standards."
For institutions, issuers, and developers, tZERO’s expansion creates another path for bringing regulated financial assets onchain. For developers, it adds regulated infrastructure that tokenization, secondary trading, and digital securities applications can build on or alongside.
For more information about tZERO, please visit: https://www.tzero.com/.
FAQs
- What does tZERO’s expansion to Sui enable?
- tZERO’s expansion brings its regulated digital securities infrastructure to Sui, including support for issuance, transfer agency, custody, trading and settlement. This gives issuers and institutions another blockchain option for building and managing tokenized securities within tZERO’s regulated market infrastructure.
- How does Sui support institutional financial applications?
- Sui combines an object-centric architecture with high-throughput, low-latency execution. These characteristics can support financial workflows such as near real-time settlement, ownership updates, and corporate actions while providing developers with the programmability needed to build sophisticated financial applications.
- How can compliance requirements be built into an onchain asset?
- On Sui, assets and permissions can be represented as programmable objects. For regulated assets, this architecture can support requirements such as transfer restrictions, whitelisting, and participant verification at the asset level, allowing rules governing an asset to be incorporated into how that asset operates onchain.
- What are tokenized securities?
- Tokenized securities are financial securities represented on a blockchain. Bringing these assets onchain can enable more programmable financial workflows, including how ownership, transfers, settlement, and other asset functions are managed.
About tZERO Group, Inc.
tZERO Group, Inc. (tZERO) and its broker-dealer subsidiaries provide an innovative liquidity platform for private companies and assets. We offer institutional-grade solutions for issuers looking to digitize their capital table through blockchain technology, and make such equity available for trading on an alternative trading system. tZERO, through its broker-dealer subsidiaries, democratizes access to private assets by providing a simple, automated, and efficient trading venue to broker-dealers, institutions, and investors. All technology services are offered through tZERO Technologies, LLC. For more information, please visit our website.
About tZERO Digital Asset Securities, LLC
tZERO Digital Asset Securities, LLC is a broker-dealer registered with the SEC and a member of FINRA and SIPC. It is the broker-dealer custodian of all digital asset securities offered on tZERO’s online brokerage platform. Digital asset securities may not be “securities” as defined under the Securities Investor Protection Act (SIPA)-and in particular, digital asset securities that are “investment contracts” under the Howey test but are not registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission are excluded from SIPA’s definition of “securities”-and thus the protections afforded to securities customers under SIPA may not apply. More information about tZERO Digital Asset Securities may be found on FINRA’s BrokerCheck.
