Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo has an argument for where artificial intelligence and finance converge: autonomous AI agents will need tokenized assets and stablecoins if they are going to deploy capital at all.

Domingo presented the case on October 22, 2026, during an appearance on Scott Melker's "The Wolf of All Streets" podcast. His central claim is that tokenization is not a niche crypto product but basic plumbing for automated, scaled-up trading. In his framing, the blockchain-based representation of traditional assets is core financial market infrastructure for an era of machine-driven activity.

Why an AI agent wants a token, not a brokerage account

In his argument on the podcast, autonomous agents will rely on tokenized assets and stablecoins to manage capital efficiently. Tokenized assets are traditional holdings, such as stocks or funds, represented on a blockchain, while stablecoins are digital dollars that move across those same networks.

Combined, they create money and assets that software can hold, move, and settle without waiting on legacy systems to clock in.

The gap Domingo is pointing at is structural. Traditional market plumbing — brokerage accounts, standard trading hours, business-day settlement — was designed around human schedules and human decision-making. His argument is that software operating around the clock needs money and assets built to move on the same terms.

Domingo did not announce any new products during the conversation; the interview concerned the thesis rather than a launch.

A busy stretch for Securitize

The comments arrived during an eventful few months for the company. On July 2, 2026, Securitize listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker SECZ, getting there through a SPAC merger — a path to public markets by combining with an already-listed blank-check company — valued at approximately $1.25 billion.

The company's assets under management exceeded $5 billion in Q3 2026. In early October 2026, it rolled out tokenized versions of 12 US stocks, a lineup that includes household names such as Apple, Nvidia, and Tesla.

Then, around October 20, 2026, Securitize announced a partnership with Anchorage Digital Bank covering stablecoin minting and custody — two days before Domingo sat down with Melker.

Taken together, those moves map onto the infrastructure his argument depends on: publicly traded equity, tokenized assets to trade, and dollar rails to move value.

The regulated route to onchain markets

Securitize's approach leans heavily on fitting inside existing rules rather than routing around them. The company's strategy has been to bring traditional financial assets onto blockchains while staying compliant with regulatory standards.

Partnering with a chartered entity like Anchorage Digital Bank for stablecoin minting and custody fits that pattern, and so does listing on a traditional exchange like the NYSE. Securitize is pitching itself as the version of crypto infrastructure that institutions can sign off on.

That compliance-first posture is also what separates regulated tokenization from the wider crypto market: a tokenized share only becomes relevant to mainstream finance if it stays inside the same regulatory perimeter as the underlying security.

What this means for investors and the market

The most notable element of Domingo's argument is its reframing of who the customer is. Tokenization has mostly been sold to humans: retail investors wanting 24/7 access, or institutions chasing faster settlement. Domingo is suggesting the bigger end user could be software.

That reframing is also why the thesis reaches past any single company's quarterly numbers. If machine-to-machine transactions ever become a meaningful share of market activity, the debate over tokenization shifts from convenience for human traders to whether markets can settle for software at all — and the buildout of compliant, tokenized rails is one response to that possibility.

For SECZ shareholders, the pitch is about positioning. A company with assets under management above $5 billion, tokenized versions of major US stocks, and a stablecoin partner in place is betting it can be early to a market that does not fully exist yet.

There are real questions to watch. How quickly will trading volume in the 12 tokenized stocks grow? Will the Anchorage Digital Bank partnership translate into meaningful stablecoin activity on Securitize's platform? And how will regulators treat AI agents that hold and trade tokenized securities on behalf of people or firms?

Source: CryptoBriefing