Meritz Securities, part of one of Korea's largest financial groups, signed an MOU with Optimism to explore issuing, settling, and distributing tokenized Korean securities on the OP Stack — Optimism confirmed the firm is exploring tokenization of Korean securities on the stack in its weekly recap, per Optimism's announcement.
- Meritz is the third Korean securities firm to sign with Optimism since July, after DB Securities (a regional STO platform with Jeju) and KB Securities (tokenized money market funds alongside Securitize)
- Optimism notes each firm came in through a different partnership path, billing the trend as "Korean capital markets are coming onchain"