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SEC Clears Tokenized Stocks To Trade Onchain As CFTC Widens Software Relief
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Fusion42 · 18 September 2026 · Fusion42 review
The SEC issued a five-year conditional exemption allowing tokenized National Market System stocks to trade on blockchain-based permissioned automated market makers, while the CFTC provided relief to passive software providers regarding introducing-broker registration. These regulatory moves follow the Senate's failure to advance the CLARITY Act and represent the first concrete use of existing regulatory authority to modernise digital securities trading and crypto software regulation.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Fintech, and 2 sources have reported it.
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You must act now if you build onchain trading platforms or crypto financial software in the US as the SEC and CFTC have created new regulatory openings that bypass Congress. This is your chance to enter tokenized stock markets before the rules become permanent or change.
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