{"id":651711,"date":"2026-09-01T18:53:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T18:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/01\/sec-proposes-broad-update-to-decades-old-transfer-agent-rules-with-blockchain-nod\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T18:53:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T18:53:25","slug":"sec-proposes-broad-update-to-decades-old-transfer-agent-rules-with-blockchain-nod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/01\/sec-proposes-broad-update-to-decades-old-transfer-agent-rules-with-blockchain-nod\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC proposes broad update to decades-old transfer agent rules with blockchain nod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/2026\/09\/01M1EXXYQ2VJS2X4FWYBFN0RBX\/sec-v-ripple.png\" alt=\"SEC proposes broad update to decades-old transfer agent rules with blockchain nod\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The proposal would modernize rules largely unchanged since the 1980s, addressing blockchain-based recordkeeping, tokenized securities and increasingly automated market infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed overhauling decades-old rules governing transfer agents as blockchain-based recordkeeping and tokenized securities become more prominent in US markets.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/files\/rules\/proposed\/2026\/34-106246.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">proposal<\/a> would update requirements covering registration, recordkeeping, safeguarding and securities transfers, while introducing new rules aimed at risks emerging from increasingly digital and automated market infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarket participants are actively seeking to bring blockchain-native, or \u2018onchain\u2019 transfer agents into the U.S. market,\u201d the SEC said, pointing to models for blockchain-based recordkeeping, tokenized fund administration and cross-chain interoperability.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/sec-proposes-transfer-agent-overhaul-as-securities-move-onchain\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proposal would modernize rules largely unchanged since the 1980s, addressing blockchain-based recordkeeping, tokenized securities and increasingly automated market infrastructure. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed overhauling decades-old rules governing transfer agents as blockchain-based recordkeeping and tokenized securities become more prominent in US markets. The proposal would update requirements covering registration, recordkeeping, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":651712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-651711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}