Securitize answers anti-tokenization Wall Street Journal ad with a full-page ad of its own

A weekend warning to public company CEOs about tokenized stocks drew a print rebuttal from Securitize and questions over who funded the original Most crypto fights happen on X. This one moved to the printed page of The Wall Street Journal. A full-page ad in the paper’s weekend edition warned public company CEOs about stock tokenization. Securitize then bought its own full-page WSJ ad to argue the opposite. The spat lands as dozens of public companies push back on plans for tokenized stock venues, so the question of who gets to tokenize shares is no longer academic. A warning in all caps, and a reply in kind The original ad ran over the weekend of October 24-25, 2026. It was published under the name of the Common Sense Leadership Fund, and it opened with the words “YOUR STOCK.” in capital letters. Its target audience was narrow: the people running publicly listed companies. Its message was blunt. The ad urged those executives to opt out of tokenized stock trading and to move before it became too late. The ad focused on tokenization happening on unregulated platforms. It laid out four main risks: Price disparities between a tokenized version of a stock and the real thing. Obscured ow...