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The SEC’s “Tokenized Stock” Plan Is Financial Innovation Theater. And We Should All Be Alarmed. The SEC’s imminent “innovation exemption” for tokenized stocks may be the most reckless regulatory gamble in a generation. And that is saying something. Here’s the SEC’s scheme: Third parties — with no authorization from the underlying companies — can create tokens that track the price of any public stock, trade them on largely unregulated DeFi platforms and call it financial innovation. No issuer consent required. No firm guarantee of voting rights. No dividends. Just a digital wrapper around a stock you don’t actually own. In other words: NFTs for equities (and we all know how brilliantly that worked out for investors). The problems are structural and severe: 1. Market Fragmentation. As Brett Redfearn of Securitize (himself a proponent of tokenization) warned: “If third parties can tokenize Apple or Amazon without the issuer at the table, there’s no theoretical limit on how many wrappers of the same company exist at once.” This could leave investors uncertain what their shares are actually worth at any moment. Securities markets will fragment and become disorderly, information asymmetries and conflicts of interest will arise and investors will suffer, thereby eroding trust in the global financial marketplace. 2. Gutting Investor Protections. The sandbox-style approach creates competitive imbalances, weakens safeguards around custody and AML compliance, and facilitates market fragmentation — while siphoning liquidity away from US markets and creating opaque, dark pools of finance. 3. DeFi’s Dismal Track Record. The November 2025 collapse of Stream Finance’s so-called DeFi protocol illustrates how the absence of basic investor-protection and market-integrity safeguards can rapidly magnify losses and spread contagion — a single failure point propagating rapidly across a fragmented ecosystem. Chairman Atkins promised a “new day” at the SEC. Apparently this means dismantling 90 years of market structure to run a DeFi experiment on the backbone of ordinary Americans — with no public notice/comment, and cheered on mainly by the same crypto ecosystem that brought us FTX, Terra-Luna and an endless parade of rug pulls. US equity markets are the deepest, most liquid, most trusted in the world. That didn’t happen by accident. It was built through decades of hard-won regulatory frameworks. You don’t “innovate” your way out of fraud protections and price transparency. The Stark reality is that, despite his bold promises, Atkins is not ushering in a 4th Industrial Revolution — he is gleefully enabling a cyberpunk financial dystopia. It’s deregulation masquerading as innovation. And retail investors will pay the price. Chairman Atkins has forgotten that the SEC’s mandate is investor protection. Could someone please remind him before we all crash and burn?

Should companies be able to approve or veto the tokenization of their stocks?

Tokenization gives them "Precision Price Placement" to bend and manipulate a share/stock price do EXACTLY what they want or need it to do. To the 18th decimal point @CEOAdam . It's in RH prospectus. #AMC

Everyone is getting #HOODWINKED by @RobinhoodApp . These tokenized shares get broken down to the quintillionth decimal so they can scalp and place with precision a stock price exactly where they want and need it to be to scalp and win with every single trade. #AMC #APE #TOKENIZED

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive!" @CEOAdam #AMC #TOKENIZED #HOOD #HOODWINKED

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