tZERO Intensifies Patent Enforcement Against Securitize and Other Market Participants in Tokenized Capital Markets

tZERO Group, Inc., a pioneer in blockchain-based financial infrastructure since 2014, announced today that it has taken enforcement actions against Securitize, Inc. for alleged infringement of two of its patents. The company also disclosed additional patent families from its portfolio of 105 patents, underscoring its commitment to protecting intellectual property in the evolving tokenized capital markets.

On April 30, 2026, tZERO provided an update on its portfolio review, highlighting 10 patents across 5 families. Now, the company has determined that certain products of Securitize, including its DS protocol and Vault Registrar, infringe U.S. Patent Nos. 11,216,802 titled “Self-enforcing Security Token Implementing Smart-contract-based Compliance Rules Consulting Smart-contract-based Global Registry of Investors” and 11,394,560 titled “Crypto integration platform”. tZERO sent a cease and desist letter to Securitize today and is continuing to investigate further infringement of its patents, including those covering crypto multiple security asset creation, upgradeable security tokens, consolidated order books, and whitelisted transaction addresses.

Beyond Securitize, tZERO’s investigation has identified products from at least six other market participants in sectors such as Regulated RWA & Digital Asset Securities Platforms, Institutional Infrastructure, Prime Brokerage & Liquidity Aggregators, Decentralized Sequencing, Fair Ordering & Crypto Infrastructure, and Decentralized Exchanges & Specialized DeFi Dark Pools that likely infringe on its patents. tZERO is analyzing its patent claims against those products and expects to send demand letters after completing its investigation.

tZERO’s broader portfolio consists of 23 patent families encompassing 105 patents worldwide, focusing on enabling compliant, scalable, and interoperable tokenized capital markets infrastructure. As the industry scales, tZERO remains vigilant in protecting its intellectual property, market position, and shareholders’ investment.

In a previewed follow-up to its April update, tZERO highlighted additional patent families relating to core infrastructure technologies. These include the Crypto Multiple Security Asset Creation and Redemption Platform (US11,704,733B2; US12,469,079B2) with 7 patents issued worldwide, covering blockchain-based creation and redemption infrastructure for tokenized funds and multi-asset digital securities products. Another family, the Consolidated Order Book from Multiple Asset Exchanges (US11,436,673B2) with 3 patents, relates to aggregating liquidity across multiple trading venues. The Decentralized Trading System for Fair Ordering and Matching of Trades (US10,937,083B2) with 2 patents covers decentralized trade sequencing using distributed node consensus. Lastly, the Obfuscation of Intent in Transactions Using Cryptographic Techniques (US10,552,829B2) with 9 patents addresses transaction privacy to prevent information leakage and front-running.

These technologies reflect tZERO’s long-term focus on building regulated infrastructure for tokenized capital markets spanning issuance, trading, liquidity aggregation, custody, settlement, and transaction privacy. tZERO will continue evaluating its IP portfolio and expects to provide further updates on enforcement, commercialization, and licensing activities.

Market participants interested in licensing discussions may contact [email protected]. For more information about tZERO, visit www.tzero.com.