France's tokenized exchange Lise takes Airbus supplier ST Group public in Europe's first onchain IPO

France’s Lightning Stock Exchange, known as Lise, is taking French aerospace and defense composites manufacturer ST Group public via what is being billed as Europe’s first fully on‑chain IPO under the EU’s Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Pilot Regime. The listing, scheduled around April 9, 2026, involves issuing ST Group shares as tokenized securities on Lise’s blockchain-based market infrastructure, with the entire lifecycle—primary subscription, secondary trading, and settlement—handled on a single regulated DLT platform. Clifford Chance, advising ST Group, and Lise itself describe the deal as the world’s first fully tokenized IPO, and the first French public offering open to both retail and institutional investors on a DLT multilateral trading facility. Lise (short for Lightning Stock Exchange) operates out of Paris as a regulated venue for small and medium-sized enterprises, combining the roles of a multilateral trading facility and a settlement system/central securities depository on-chain under the EU DLT Pilot Regime, supervised in France by ACPR and AMF. The platform tokenizes shares and uses tokenized deposits for 24/7 trading and near-instant settlement, positioning itself as a cheaper, faster alternative to traditional exchanges for SMEs that often find conventional IPO processes slow and expensive. ST Group, headquartered near Toulouse, produces high-performance composite parts for civil and military aerospace and space programs and seeks capital to scale production in line with growing aerospace and defense demand. This IPO matters as an early, high-profile test of tokenized capital markets within a fully regulated EU framework. It demonstrates how a natively tokenized exchange can integrate issuance, trading, and settlement on a shared ledger while remaining within existing securities regulation, potentially offering a blueprint for other SMEs to access public markets more efficiently. For regulators, it is one of the first real transactions under the EU’s DLT Pilot Regime, providing practical feedback on how distributed ledger-based market infrastructures work in live conditions; for market participants, it tests whether retail and institutional investors will engage with fully on-chain equity offerings and continuous, 24/7 secondary markets. "entities":["Lise (Lightning Stock Exchange)","ST Group","European Union DLT Pilot Regime (Regulation (EU) 2022/858)","ACPR (Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution)","AMF (Autorité des Marchés Financiers)","Clifford Chance","BNP Paribas","CACEIS (Crédit Agricole Group)","Bpifrance","Mark Kepeneghian"]}`

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