Onchain transfer agent · For public companies
Put your equity on the new rails, without giving up what makes it yours. With your official record onchain, ownership and authorized transfers live in one system, laying the foundation for faster, more efficient equity transactions.
Transfer request
Recorded on the official record
Market structure starts with the record
Tokenized stocks can represent shares, claims on shares held by a custodian, or exposure to a stock’s price. In U.S. equity markets, the official record is the master securityholder file, maintained by the issuer or its transfer agent. Fairmint brings it onchain, connecting ownership and authorized transfers in one system while preserving shareholder rights.
With Fairmint: The company’s shares, authorized by the issuer and recorded on the official record.
With Fairmint: The same rights shareholders hold today. Moving the record onchain doesn’t change them.
With Fairmint: Fairmint TA LLC, an SEC-registered transfer agent, maintains the master securityholder file onchain.
The offer to issuers
When you appoint Fairmint TA LLC, Fairmint’s SEC-registered transfer agent subsidiary, we move your master securityholder file onchain and maintain it there as the official record of ownership. You authorize the move, and shareholders keep the same rights.
Once appointed transfer agent, Fairmint works with the company to reconcile its existing shareholder record before it moves onchain.
Fairmint manages the handover from any current transfer agent.
Fairmint sets each issuer’s requirements for onboarding holders and processing transfers.
Where Fairmint stands
Registered
SEC-registered transfer agentFairmint TA LLC is registered with the SEC as a transfer agent (file no. 084-06901).The standard
Open Cap Table ProtocolFairmint created the Open Cap Table Protocol, an open framework for recording equity events and sharing permissioned ownership data. The protocol runs on the Canton Network. Fairmint is a governing member of the Open Cap Table Coalition, which stewards the standard across the industry.Designed to run the record onchain
One system for the record and its transfersFairmint’s system is designed to record issuances, transfers, cancellations and transfer restrictions onchain, in the same place that keeps the official record.
“Every share is a promise, and the shareholder register is where that promise is kept. The tokenization debate will be settled by whoever keeps the official record. We spent eight years building regulated infrastructure and an open standard so that record can live onchain. Now we’re ready for issuers who want their equity on the new rails, with their rights intact and the U.S. setting the standard.”
Why now
A clearer path for onchain equity infrastructure.SEC staff has described how registered transfer agents can maintain their official master securityholder files using distributed ledger technology. The Commission’s September 2026 Innovation Exemption adds a temporary, conditional framework for trading tokenized listed stocks on certain onchain venues.
The offering builds on Fairmint’s experience bringing private-company equity onchain. Fairmint is now extending that infrastructure to public companies and their shareholders.
The U.S. can set the standard
Built on the foundation already in place.The United States already has what onchain equity needs: issuer-authorized shares, registered transfer agents keeping the official record, and an SEC that is now addressing how that record can live on a blockchain. Building onchain equity on that foundation, rather than on copies and wrappers issued offshore, keeps investor protections, shareholder rights and issuer control intact.
Questions
Transfer-agent services are provided through Fairmint TA LLC, Fairmint’s SEC-registered transfer agent subsidiary (file no. 084-06901). Registration is not an endorsement by the Commission.
Yes. Each issuer authorizes the move of its master securityholder file onchain, and shareholders keep the same rights.
Once appointed transfer agent, Fairmint reconciles the current record and manages the handover from any current transfer agent.
The offering covers the official ownership record and the transfer-agent responsibilities and controls needed to support it. The Commission’s September 2026 Innovation Exemption adds a temporary, conditional framework for trading tokenized listed stocks on certain onchain venues.
The Canton Network, through the Open Cap Table Protocol.
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Tell us where your shares are listed and who keeps your record today. We review it before we meet.
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