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Tara Evans · Uproar by Moburst for Fairmint

Latest release · 21 April 2026

$26M of startup equity, onchain from day one

Seven teams from BitcoinFi Accelerator’s latest cohort moved fundraising equity natively onchain with Fairmint, part of $26M in equity now living on programmable infrastructure from the start.

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In the news

Selected coverage.

CoinDesk Tokenized stocks risk a digital repeat of Wall Street’s “paper crisis” “The main question today is whether we are recreating the paper crisis, but as a digital crisis.” 22 Aug 2026 Markets Media Fairmint Envisages Onchain Listings “Companies should be able to go public through a direct listing on Coinbase, Robinhood or on any platform.” 25 Aug 2025 Crowdfund Insider Fairmint CEO on tokenized securities and onchain equity “We’re not tokenizing a spreadsheet, we’re turning the cap table itself into programmable infrastructure.” 04 Aug 2025 Bitget News Tokenized securities may reshape capital markets On self-custody: holders are not just listed in someone else’s private database. 03 Aug 2025

Press releases

12 announcements
01 21.04.26 Fairmint Partners with BitcoinFi Accelerator to Bring $26M in Startup Funding Equity Natively Onchain GlobeNewswire 02 09.04.26 When Wall Street and Blockchain Converge: Fairmint Acquires The RWA Desk Fairmint 03 05.02.26 We're Asking the SEC to Let Users Invest in What They Build PR Newswire 04 14.01.26 Fairmint Appoints New Executive Leadership to Scale Institutional Onchain Equity PR Newswire 05 16.12.25 Fairmint CEO Joris Delanoue Elected General Director of the Canton Foundation Fairmint 06 11.09.25 Fairmint Partners with IntellectEU to Provide Easy Oversight and Analytics Capabilities for Bringing Equity Onchain Fairmint 07 04.09.25 Fairmint Launches Observer Nodes on Canton Network, Enabling Oversight for Tokenized Equity GlobeNewswire 08 25.06.25 Fairmint Joins Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and BNY Mellon in Canton Network's Institutional Blockchain Ecosystem Fairmint 09 16.06.25 Fairmint Submits Comprehensive Framework to SEC Crypto Task Force to Modernize $6 Trillion Private Markets GlobeNewswire 10 09.06.25 Fairmint Surpasses $1 Billion in Onchain Equity as Cap Tables Move from Spreadsheets to Smart Contracts Fairmint 11 15.05.25 Fairmint Releases Whitepaper for Open Cap Table Protocol to Advanced On-Chain Equity Securities Fairmint 12 09.05.25 Fairmint Introduces First Onchain And Open Cap Table Infrastructure Fairmint

Firsts and milestones

Verifiable dates, for anyone checking the record.

2023 First fully onchain native SEC-registered transfer agent
2024 First registered transfer agent to integrate the Transfer Agent Protocol
2025 $1B+ in equity administered onchain
2025 Observer Nodes live on Canton Network
2025 & 2026 Written input submitted to the SEC Crypto Task Force

Speaking and events

Where the team has been on the record.

June 2025 Robinhood keynote — onchain equity and tokenized stocks Cannes
September 2022 Circle Converge22 — Fairmint founder reception San Francisco
Ongoing Open Cap Table Coalition working sessions New York

Podcasts

Long-form conversations with the founders.

8 episodes
YouTube Revolutionizing Capital Markets Bringing equity onchain, the evolution of securities law, and where decentralised markets go next. 29 Jun 2026 Law of Code On-chain transfer agents and compliance Mirrored tokens versus natively onchain securities, and compliance written into smart contracts. 27 Oct 2025 · 34 min Rising Tide Startups What if equity could move as fast as code? From serial entrepreneur in France to moving $1B of equity onto the blockchain. 14 Nov 2025 The Digital Executive Tokenizing Equity: Building Fairmint Navigating US securities regulation on the way to transfer-agent registration. 18 Oct 2025 · 20 min The Aligned Money Show Bringing Equity Onchain What onchain equity means for owners, employees and investors, and what it does for liquidity. 07 Oct 2025 Grownlearn How Tokenized Equity Will Change Investing Forever How Fairmint went from a capital-raising platform to onchain equity infrastructure. 2025 Coruzant Technologies Tokenizing startup equity Building financial infrastructure that makes fundraising transparent and founder-friendly. 2025 Boost VC — Can’t Be Done Ep. 107: The Future of Fundraising Both founders on continuous financing and putting equity in the hands of a company’s community. 21 Jan 2021

Founders

Headshots for publication.

Joris Delanoue Co-founder & CEO

Co-founded Fairmint in 2019 after building and selling Nexteem, and speaks on market structure, tokenized securities and regulated DeFi.

Thibauld Favre Co-founder & CTO

Co-founded Fairmint in 2019 and leads the protocol work behind the Open Cap Table Protocol and Fairmint’s onchain register.

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Fairmint brings equity onchain, making it easy for private companies to issue, manage and transfer, without compromising regulatory oversight. Founded in 2019 by Joris Delanoue and Thibauld Favre, Fairmint operates as an SEC-registered transfer agent and initiated the Open Cap Table Protocol (OCP), now available for industry-wide adoption.

* Registration as a transfer agent is not an endorsement of Fairmint by the Commission.