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Twenty DTC Participants signed for access; Canton Network and DTCC's private Besu are live now, with more networks planned for 2027, on a path opened by a December 2025 SEC No-Action Letter.
The Depository Trust Company, a subsidiary of DTCC, on Oct. 28, 2026 launched the DTCC Tokenization Service, minting tokenized representations of DTC-custodied securities that can convert between traditional and tokenized form and deliver to users' wallets of choice while retaining ownership rights, investor protections, and economic entitlements [1]. DTC cites more than $114 trillion in assets under custody [1]. Twenty DTC Participants have signed agreements to access the service; the networks live now are the Canton Network and DTCC's private Besu network, with additional blockchain networks planned for 2027 [1].
Tokenized representations, which DTCC also calls digital twins, are on-chain entitlements tied to securities already held in DTC custody, not a separate issuer product outside that custody stack [1]. Eligible users can convert those entitlements between traditional and tokenized forms and send them to wallets they choose, while the release says ownership rights, investor protections, and economic entitlements stay with the twin [1]. The service is framed as DTCC market infrastructure for liquidity, collateral mobility, and capital efficiency inside a regulated post-trade wrapper, not as a third-party issuer launch [1].
That framing separates this go-live from same-day issuer or chain stories. Securitize's planned Stellar integration is a third-party issuance-rail plan; this is DTC opening a tokenization service over assets it already holds in custody [1].
To date, 20 DTC Participants have signed agreements to access DTS: Alpaca; Apex Clearing Corporation; Barclays; Bank of America; BNP Paribas; Brown Brothers Harriman; Citadel Securities; Citi; Clear Street; DriveWealth; Edward Jones; Fidelity Investments; Interchange Clearing; J.P. Morgan; Marex; Mirae Asset Securities (USA) Inc.; Morgan Stanley; State Street; UBS; and Velocity Capital LLC, with future users to be onboarded on a rolling basis [1]. DTCC says the service was built with input from more than 150 firms in the DTC Digital Assets Solutions Industry Working Group [1].
The service is currently integrated with the Canton Network and DTCC's private Besu network, with additional blockchain networks to be added in 2027 [1]. @CantonNetwork posted a same-day standby note naming DTCC and Canton; that post confirms the network name already in the press and supplies no Participant, custody, or NAL figures [4].
Separately from the 20 signed Participants, DTCC lists ecosystem collaborators and partners spanning wallet, trading, and technology firms, including Ondo among others named in the release [1]. Those names are collaborators, not the Participant roster. Ondo's appearance here is as an ecosystem partner only; it is not a claim about Ondo Stocks or any other Ondo product [1].
In December 2025, DTC received a No-Action Letter from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission authorizing it to tokenize Russell 1000 constituents, exchange-traded funds tracking major indices, and U.S. Treasury securities [1][2]. That NAL scope is the legal perimeter DTCC cites for the path to today's service; this pack does not restate a separate NAL PDF beyond the Oct. 28 release's description [1][2].
Frank La Salla, President and CEO of DTCC, said the launch "marks the culmination of years of work to bring tokenized securities into a regulated framework supported by trusted market infrastructure," and that extending DTC's resiliency, governance, and operational standards into digital markets establishes "the foundation for responsible institutional adoption at scale" [1]. Brian Steele, Managing Director and President of Clearing & Securities Services at DTCC, said engagement across traditional finance and digital asset markets shows the industry is ready "to move beyond experimentation and toward practical adoption," citing work with more than 150 firms in the Industry Working Group [1]. Nadine Chakar, Managing Director and Global Head of DTCC Digital Assets, called the launch a demonstration of "sustained industry collaboration, regulatory engagement and a disciplined approach to innovation," and said it is "only the beginning" of DTCC's goal to bridge trusted market infrastructure and digital ledger technology [1].
DTCC's About boilerplate in the same release puts 2025 subsidiary processing at U.S. $4.7 quadrillion and depository custody at U.S. $114 trillion [1].
Access agreements and a go-live announcement are not the same as disclosed live volumes, a named per-security inventory, or a published fee schedule. The Oct. 28 release does not list which CUSIPs or how many securities are live on day one, and it does not publish transaction counts for the new service [1]. A sentence in the same release says that about seven months after the December 2025 No-Action Letter, DTCC and more than 30 firms completed initial limited-production trades and multiple on-chain transactions [1][3]. That "more than 30 firms" line is a historical prior step on the path to DTS; it is not today's signed Participant count, which the release states as 20 [1][3]. @The_DTCC had no same-day go-live post in this pack's search window, so the press text is the numeric primary [1].
In Le Coin's view, the tell is whether the 20 signed Participants show checkable convertibility and wallet delivery under the NAL asset classes, and whether DTCC names the additional networks it says will arrive in 2027 with the same custody-backed convertibility rules [1][2]. A second tell is whether limited-production history scales into routine Participant use without the desk having to invent volumes the release never gave [1][3]. Until those show up in primary disclosures, the record is Oct. 28 infrastructure go-live with twenty signed Participants, two networks live now, and a December 2025 NAL perimeter.
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