Walmart, Eli Lilly, Cigna Group, Carnival and Arcos Dorados have objected to their shares being offered on OKXICE TSV, according to its Oct. 28 notice. The number of objecting companies has risen from nine on Oct. 15 to 38, spreading into retail, health care and travel. Under the SEC's innovation exemption, a timely written objection bars the venue from listing a third-party tokenized version of that company's stock; the objection applies only to this venue, and the notices do not disclose reasons. OKXICE TSV, a 50-50 joint venture of Intercontinental Exchange and OKX's U.S. holding company, plans 24/7 trading of tokenized U.S. stocks through Uniswap v4 pools on XLayer, paired with stablecoins such as USDC, with caps of 0.25% of average daily volume for 75 large stocks and 2.5% for up to 250 others. Nvidia, Tesla, Apple and Amazon have not objected yet.
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