SEC Opens a Five-Year Path for Tokenized U.S. Stock Trading

SEC Opens a Five-Year Path for Tokenized U.S. Stock Trading


U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission headquarters in Washington, D.C. image By Isaac • September 17, 2026 7:14 pm •

The Securities and Exchange Commission has opened a limited route for tokenized U.S. stocks to trade on blockchain-based venues.

The move is not a broad approval for every tokenized equity product. It is a five-year, conditional exemption for a defined class of permissioned venues operating under specific investor-protection and market-integrity requirements.

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The SEC says eligible Tokenized Securities Venues can make tokenized National Market System stocks available through permissioned automated market makers and liquidity pools.

That is a meaningful shift. U.S. market rules were built around exchanges, broker-dealers and centralized infrastructure, while automated onchain pools do not fit neatly into those categories.

The agency’s order grants two related forms of temporary relief, covering both the venue function

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