Updated: 02.04.2026
- A French manufacturer of aircraft parts Airbus will become the first organization to conduct an IPO on blockchain.
- ST Group has never planned to go public on a traditional market, considering Block the optimal solution.
- Its advantages: the minimum investment is one share, no subscription or storage fees.
A small aerospace company near Toulouse is about to make history. ST Group, which produces high-performance composite parts for Airbus and Dassault Aviation, will become the first traditional company in the world to will hold Initial public offering of shares on the blockchain.
The listing is scheduled for April 9 on Lise, a French blockchain-based exchange backed by BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole’s CACEIS, and state-owned investment bank Bpifrance.
ST Group would never have gone public on a traditional market. Technology Block “This is a real solution to the problem of structured financing for small and medium-sized businesses,” said Lise CEO Mark Kepepegyan.
The process for investors is simple: they register, transfer funds, which are automatically converted into tokenized deposits, and subscribe in one click. The minimum investment is one share. There are no subscription or storage fees on the primary market.
The process involves an investment bank and institutional investors, making it a full-fledged IPO rather than crowdfunding. The only difference is that everything happens on the blockchain.
Before conducting its unique IPO, Lise received a DLT TSS license from the Prudential Supervision and Insolvency Authority, France‘s financial regulator, under the EU’s pilot regime for distributed ledger technology. This «regulatory sandbox» allows blockchain-based financial infrastructure to operate within the framework of traditional legal norms.
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