By Isaac • September 1, 2026 11:22 pm •
The Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing its first major rewrite of transfer-agent rules in decades, and blockchain is no longer being treated as a distant possibility.
The proposal goes to the plumbing of U.S. securities markets: the firms that maintain ownership records, process transfers and help make sure investors receive the assets they bought.
CoinDesk reports that the SEC’s package would modernize rules written for a market built around paper certificates and limited trading hours. The proposal addresses recordkeeping, safeguarding investor assets and the way transfer agents operate when securities records move onto blockchain-based systems.
It also arrives as regulators confront a second question: whether U.S. markets should support trading far beyond the traditional daytime
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