21X and LeveL Markets Partner to Offer Tokenized Capital Markets Trading

21X, the world’s first fully regulated DLT-based trading and settlement system (TSS), today announced a strategic partnership with LeveL Markets, which offers industry-leading connectivity to a diverse international trading ecosystem, to offer digital trading services by connecting traditional financial markets with next-generation, wallet-based trading rails.

The partnership brings together two leading and innovative trading companies, with LeveL Markets’ deep roots in institutional equity trading and 21X’s tokenized market infrastructure.  Together, clients can extend established TradFi workflows into digital, wallet-native environments. By tightly integrating these capabilities, the two firms will remove operational and technical friction that has historically limited institutional participation in tokenized markets, enabling access without forcing firms to re-architect their existing trading stacks.

Through this collaboration, LeveL Markets institutional customers will be able to access tokenized financial instruments alongside their existing equity workflows. The partnership is intended to align emerging, wallet-based rails with the tools, protocols and operating models that institutional traders already rely on, creating a foundation for future interoperability. Over time, this approach aims to support a more unified trading environment, where traditional securities and tokenized assets can increasingly co-exist within familiar institutional frameworks.

“Institutions want the benefits of tokenization without re-engineering their entire trading stack,” said Max Heinzle, CEO at 21X. “By partnering with LeveL Markets, we will embed wallet-based rails directly into proven institutional workflows, making tokenized markets immediately usable for professional traders.”

Steve Miele, CEO at LeveL Markets, added: “LeveL Markets has always focused on improving execution quality and reducing friction for institutional participants. This partnership with 21X extends that mission into the next generation of market infrastructure, giving our clients seamless access to tokenized instruments while preserving the experience, controls and performance they expect.”

The partnership provides a critical gateway for traditional financial (TradFi) institutions to engage with tokenized assets. By leveraging digital wallets, LeveL Markets’ institutional customers will be able to access the efficiencies of 21X’s blockchain-based infrastructure, including atomic settlement, the elimination of settlement failures and reduced intermediary costs without compromising the standards of today’s trading environment.

Together, 21X and LeveL Markets are delivering institutional-grade digital securities trading.