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The SEC is rewriting 50-year-old Wall Street rules to let public blockchains decide who ...
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Fusion42 · 3 September 2026 · Fusion42 review
The US SEC proposed an overhaul to allow public blockchains or distributed ledgers to serve as official shareholder records while keeping regulated transfer agents responsible for record accuracy and reporting. The rules update 50-year-old standards to incorporate tokenized securities and electronic recordkeeping, but still require traditional identity details for shareholders.
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You face a rare opening to build compliant infrastructure that integrates blockchain with official US shareholder records as the SEC updates decades-old rules. This is a moment to align product roadmaps with onchain custody while transfer agents keep control, turning blockchain from parallel tech into legal backbone.
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