At GIX, we are designing instruments for financial innovators who need new products built on trusted, well-traveled rails. Any new instrument requires a registered and regulated venue, institutional market makers, broker-dealer connectivity, and market data infrastructure. GIX provides all of this, creating a pathway for new products to list and trade. And as a new exchange, GIX is free from the legacy constraints that impede innovation at scale.
While most capital market participants view securities laws – the operating system of the capital markets – as constraints, GIX views them as “primitives”: the building blocks that, when assembled in novel ways, unlock new instruments and market structures that no existing exchange has built before. Although our products were built to support different asset classes, they share a strategic approach: GIX identifies a structural gap, locates the existing legal primitives, and composes them into something novel in practice but grounded in sound and long-recognized regulatory practices. Take a look at what we’re developing.
Innovating Digital Trading
The divide between traditional equity markets and digital asset markets is not a technology problem or a regulatory problem — it is a market structure problem, and GIX is positioned to solve it from the regulated side of that boundary. The below products are not independent applications; they’re the elements that enable a seamless convergence between the traditional share market and digital markets, built on the well-established rails of a traditional equities exchange.
One order book, two formats: traditional and tokenized investors meet in a single market
GIX is accelerating the digital transition by building GIDX – a digital facility of GIX’s exchange. Together, GIX and GIDX will enable tokenized real-world assets holders and equity share holders to trade directly with each other without leaving their native formats. GIX and GIDX will maintain synchronized order books — one in shares, one in tokenized shares — with a proprietary translation layer converting between formats at execution. This way, neither side of the market needs to leave its native infrastructure; both sides trade against the same pool of liquidity.
Solving the token-to-share settlement gap
The GIDX Atomic Settlement Coin™ solves the remaining problem in tokenized equity trading: when an on-chain seller and a traditional buyer trade against each other, one side settles in seconds while the other takes days. Until now, one party had to assume that risk. The ASC eliminates it via a liquid, transferable, fully-collateralized bearer instrument that’s minted at the moment of trade execution and extinguished on settlement. It’s the missing infrastructure that allows both sides to achieve economic certainty on trade date, regardless of which settlement rail they're on.
Commodity-based ETPs: non-traditional assets wrapped in publicly traded equities
Institutional investors are structurally prevented from accessing cryptocurrency tokens, carbon credits, and real-world assets, which all exist outside the equity market. Equity-Wrapped Asset Trusts wrap the underlying asset into a publicly traded equity that can be held in trust, insured, and then listed and traded on GIX. Qualified buyers can redeem their shares to receive and use the underlying assets.
Unlocking trapped value: Decoupling shareholder rights into separately tradable tokens
GIDX can use smart contracts to "strip" traditional shares into separately listed tranches for dividends, voting, and price appreciation. Investors can target specific rights – like pure income or governance influence – without the capital outlay for a full share. GIDX Digital Strips create separately listed and separately tradeable instruments, with each representing one dimension of the original security's value. Each trades on its own price signal, with its own liquidity, without requiring ownership of the full share.
Understanding GIX's digital strategy: an end-to-end continuum
GIDX's digital strategy begins with equity-wrapped asset trusts — real-world assets like carbon credits and crypto tokens securitized into publicly traded shares — then bridges traditional and digital markets through the GIDX Digital Gateway and Atomic Settlement Coins, which allow tokenized and DTC investors to trade the same security in a single order book with settlement certainty on both sides. From there, the roadmap advances to native tokenized equities issued directly on GIDX, and ultimately to digital strips — smart-contract-decomposed shareholder rights (price appreciation, dividends, voting) traded as independently listed instruments, each on its own price signal and liquidity pool.
GIDX Digital Gateway™ patent pending. Subject to rule changes filed with and approved by the SEC.Modernizing Traditional Equities
The divide between traditional equity markets and digital asset markets is not a technology problem or a regulatory problem — it is a market structure problem, and GIX is positioned to solve it from the regulated side of that boundary. The below products are not independent applications; they’re the elements that enable a seamless convergence between the traditional share market and digital markets, built on the well-established rails of a traditional equities exchange.
Intraday auctions: Aggregating dispersed liquidity in concentrated auctions
Intraday auctions can help small- and mid-cap companies trade in larger blocks and at tighter spreads. With 23,400,000 milliseconds during a trading day when orders can match, buyers and sellers in thinly traded stocks often don't find each other naturally. The cost of capital for these companies increases as spreads widen and traders guard against adverse selection. AuctionsEQ combines market structure and AI-moderated quality protection to enhance liquidity aggregation, promote price improvement, protect execution quality, and minimize information leakage and market impact.
Synthetic green bonds, without balance sheet debt
Funding a long-term transition project, whether it’s retrofitting an electrical grid or modernizing infrastructure, requires patient capital. Debt can encumber a balance sheet, constrain borrowing capacity, and convert a missed milestone into a financial default. The GIX SLP gives companies access to transition capital in the form of convertible preferred equity, offering a balance sheet the benefits of equity and income and accountability structure of a bond – without the default risk of debt. The product features an automatic conversion so that performance reflects returns.
Insurance-linked securities: bridging reinsurance and capital markets via tradable investments
The reinsurance market is one of the largest – yet most inaccessible – pools of non-correlated risk in global finance. TierBridge unlocks illiquid reinsurance risks by securitizing treaties into independently priced segments and listing them on GIX as tradeable equities. Simultaneously, diverse contracts can pool into an equity trust to diversify failure risk before listing. With TierBridge, an opaque, bilateral asset class can acquire the properties of a publicly traded security: transparent, liquid, and regulated.
GIDX Digital Gateway, GIDX Atomic Settlement Coin, GIX Equity-Wrapped Asset Trusts, GIDX Digital Strips, and AuctionsEQ are patent pending. Each of the GIX products described herein is subject to rule changes filed with and approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission.