56 Companies Object to Blockchain Plan for US Stocks: Who's Missing?

Fifty-six of the 62 companies named in OKX and ICE's planned tokenized US equity platform have filed objections, according to a CoinDesk tally, leaving only six non-objecting firms—all of them tied to the crypto sector. The dispute centers on the exchange partners' use of company names in a blockchain-based venue for trading tokenized US stocks. The near-universal pushback matters because it signals that traditional issuers remain wary of having their equities represented on-chain without consent, a potential obstacle to mainstream adoption of tokenized securities. What to watch next is whether OKX and ICE revise the list or secure opt-ins from the holdouts, and whether the six crypto-linked companies become the platform's initial anchor names.