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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