tZERO Launches API Platform to Bridge Traditional Finance with Tokenized Markets

tZERO Group, Inc. has launched tZERO Connect, an API-first platform designed to provide institutional partners with direct access to regulated digital securities infrastructure. The initiative represents a significant step in bridging traditional financial institutions with emerging tokenized markets through programmable connectivity.

The platform offers three core API categories that enable seamless integration of tokenization capabilities. Tokenization and Issuance APIs allow partners to conduct compliant digital securities offerings within their own platforms. Secondary Trading APIs, scheduled for late 2025 or early 2026, will provide order routing, market data access, and post-trade automation for tokenized assets. Data APIs deliver real-time analytics and market insights through access to trade data, order book depth, and best bid/offer information.

Alan Konevsky, CEO of tZERO, emphasized the strategic importance of the platform, stating that tZERO Connect allows partners to plug directly into our ecosystem - bringing tokenized securities to investors where they already are - bridging traditional and digital market infrastructure. The approach addresses one of the key barriers to institutional adoption by enabling financial institutions to offer digital asset capabilities without requiring investors to leave their native applications.

The platform operates on tZERO's regulated infrastructure, built atop SEC- and FINRA-regulated broker-dealer operations with pending CFTC DCO/DCM applications. This regulatory foundation provides institutional-grade compliance, security, and transparency that traditional financial institutions require when entering digital asset markets. More information about tZERO's regulatory status can be found at https://www.finra.org.

tZERO Connect implements a follow-the-sun network model that connects global market leaders and infrastructure innovators including Alphaledger, Archax, and Lynq. This global collaboration extends the reach of compliant digital asset infrastructure worldwide through partnerships across custody, settlement, and jurisdictional services. The platform leverages services from technology partners including Zerohash and Fireblocks to ensure robust operational capabilities.

The white-label access model enables broker-dealers, custodians, and fintech platforms to embed tZERO infrastructure under the hood of their existing systems. This approach allows financial institutions to maintain control over client relationships and user experience while leveraging tZERO's specialized expertise in digital securities infrastructure. Partners can access detailed information through https://www.tzero.com.

Konevsky highlighted the strategic significance of API connectivity in modern financial markets, noting that APIs are the connective tissue of modern financial markets. By combining an API-first mindset with our partnership approach and strategy across supply, demand, global rails, defi connectivity, institutional services and public markets innovation, tZERO Connect builds the rails that let institutions operate seamlessly across asset classes - from traditional to digital.

The launch represents a critical development in the maturation of digital asset markets, providing the institutional-grade infrastructure necessary for broader adoption of tokenized securities and real-world assets. By enabling traditional financial institutions to integrate digital asset capabilities into their existing operations, tZERO Connect addresses key operational and regulatory concerns that have previously limited institutional participation in tokenized markets.