Nasdaq on Monday announced plans to launch an equity token design, a framework to tokenize public company shares while keeping legal and regulatory integrity, modernizing investor engagement, and enabling always-on trading. The stock exchange giant has teamed up with Payward, Kraken’s parent company, to create a gateway connecting permissioned and permissionless markets for tokenized equities, ensuring legal equivalence, investor protections, and issuer control. The initiative aims to give issuers greater control over their shares in tokenized form while introducing programmable features that modernize how companies ... (full story)