ByNina Bambysheva,
Forbes Staff.
On Tuesday, Miami-based fintech Securitize, best known for tokenizing BlackRock’s $3 billion BUIDL fund, announced plans to go public via a merger with a SPAC sponsored by an affiliate of Cantor Fitzgerald. The deal values Securitize at $1.25 billion pre-money at a time when crypto firms are racing toward public markets and the real-world asset (RWA) tokenization market has ballooned 135% in the past year to $35 billion.
We sat down with CEO Carlos Domingo to discuss why Securitize is going public now and when tokenization will finally go mainstream. The transcript was edited for clarity.
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