Securitize and Socios are partnering to launch Socios Equity Tokens, a compliant initiative to tokenize minority equity stakes in professional sports clubs. The project will explore new models for sports club financing and ownership, with Socios leading sports industry partnerships and fan engagement while Securitize handles securities issuance, investor onboarding, ownership registration, and transfer controls through its regulated entities. Securitize said professional sports clubs globally are worth about $500 billion, and the partnership aims to bring part of that value on-chain. The initiative is also expected to be among the first projects launched under Securitize’s European trading and settlement system within the EU DLT pilot regime.