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Introducing Fairmint's Onchain Transfer Agent services offering.
Not just tokens representing shares held in an offchain register. The official shareholder register itself is onchain, maintained by an SEC-registered transfer agent.
Read the announcement: globenewswire.com/news-relea…
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Most tokenized stocks represent shares held in an offchain register.
With $CNTN, the company itself is bringing its shares onchain, and Fairmint will maintain the official shareholder register on Canton.
Actual company equity, with the ownership record onchain.
THE BLOCK: Canton Strategic Holdings aims to become the first publicly traded U.S. company to offer issuer-sponsored tokenized shares for trading on a venue operating under the SEC's new tokenization framework following its September innovation exemption.
$CNTN plans to tokenize its common shares through SEC-registered transfer agent Fairmint and make them available for trading on TSV, a permissioned trading venue on the Canton Network, as early as Nov. 2.
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Issuing shares is only half the job.
Companies need to know what was authorized, who owns each share and whether transfers are valid.
That's why Fairmint is bringing the official shareholder register onchain, making it the foundation for how equity is owned and transferred.
Public companies can now explore bringing their official shareholder register onchain with Fairmint on Canton.
Learn more: fairmint.com/onchain-transfe…
Fairmint has introduced onchain shareholder-record services for public companies on Canton.
@fairmint’s offer requires issuer appointment and preserves shareholder rights. No completed public-company migration was named.
cantonnews.org/fairmint-intr…
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New cap table provider? cool
Just make sure your shareholders got the memo 🤝
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And this growth happened largely without public companies being involved.
Imagine what happens now that they can bring their own shares and official shareholder register onchain 👀
Tokenized stocks have hit $4.63B, the same size stablecoins were in March 2020.
Onchain equities were under $1B at the start of 2026. Stablecoins went from $4.6B to $297B from that point.
Data: @tokenterminal
What a week on Canton, and still more to come 👀
Canton Weekly Update | October 26 to November 1
1. @The_DTCC launched its tokenization service on Canton and its private Besu network. Firms can use it to get tokenized versions of eligible securities held at DTC. Twenty firms signed agreements for access, including J.P. Morgan, Citi and Fidelity Investments.
2. In a treasury pilot, @Uber bought a Franklin Templeton money market fund on @Tradeweb using @HSBC tokenized deposits. It could keep cash invested until it needed it, even selling part of its holding over the weekend. The trades settled on Canton through @FireblocksHQ.
3. @CantonStrategic signed an agreement with TSV to bring its Nasdaq listed shares to Canton. @Fairmint would issue the tokens, and investors could trade them on TSV using @tradecraftfi. The companies targeted November 2 as the earliest trading date.
4. @Nasdaq received a slot to run a validator on Canton’s production network. It plans to use the node for its own apps, starting with tokenized carbon removal certificates. A separate notice approved @dbsbank’s validator application and RBC CM LLC’s request for an additional node.
5. @BlackRock disclosed a 6% stake in Canton Strategic Holdings. Its October 27 filing showed it held about 4.82 million shares in the company as of September 30.
6. @Tradeweb earned $1.4 million for helping run Canton in the third quarter, down from $2.3 million a year earlier. Over the first nine months, revenue from that work rose to $6.8 million from $4.4 million.
7. On November 1, @RWA_xyz put the value of assets represented on Canton at $351.47 billion. Almost all of it came from @Broadridge’s repo platform, where firms use securities to borrow cash.
8. @cancore_io raised $7.2 million to expand trading between Canton and other blockchains. It plans to connect more networks and make more real-world assets available to trade.
9. Canton’s Super Validators approved a new way to calculate rewards for eligible apps based on the network traffic their transactions generate. A test run is planned for December. Switching to the new calculation requires a further decision.
10. @redstone_defi outlined its work on CAPS, a pricing standard backed by @CantonFdn. Two firms could use a shared market price as a benchmark and keep their negotiated price private.
11. Litecoin miner @LuxxfolioH signed a nonbinding agreement with @Greywick_hq. They’re exploring whether Luxxfolio could use some of its mined Litecoin to back cLTC on Canton and then borrow against those tokens.
12. Canton recorded a validator reward allocation for @a16zfrontier, formerly a16z crypto, under a node run by @MPCH_Labs. The fund can receive those rewards once its milestones are verified.
13. @DigitalAsset released Canton 3.7 with a safeguard for node operators. Tools for exporting keys and repairing ledger records are now off by default.
14. @Doppler_Fi joined the Canton Foundation. It plans to bring its vaults to Canton, starting with one for Canton Coin.
15. @temple_ny settled $764.5 million in spot trades on Canton in October, up 91% from about $400.7 million in September.
16. On @Visa’s October 27 earnings call, CEO Ryan McInerney highlighted the company’s existing role as a Canton Super Validator. He put that work in the context of Visa’s plan to connect traditional payments, stablecoins and tokenized deposits.
Bringing public company shares onchain goes beyond technology.
It requires infrastructure to maintain shareholder records and process transfers.
That's where transfer agents come in.
@Investingcom covers Fairmint's role in Canton Strategic's plans 👇
in.investing.com/news/stock-…
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The next wave could look quite different when public companies start benefiting from bringing their own shares onchain.
We just launched our Onchain Transfer Agent service to make that possible.
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You think your team is quick
but is it launching Onchain Transfer Agent services the same week 33 companies object to OKX/ICE's stock tokenization plans quick? 👀
You think your team is quick but is it @Securitize get-a-full-page-ad-in-WSJ-to-correct-the-news quick?
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“If you have something that can make the industry better, just bring it in the open.”
Fairmint CEO @Joris_DLN on why the next generation of capital markets infrastructure should be built on open standards.
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If you're putting equity onchain, you probably don't want everyone seeing your shareholder records.
But you might need someone to check them.
Fairmint's Observer Nodes on @CantonNetwork let them see what they need, without giving them access to change anything.
November may start with another first 👀
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Turns out, if you don't explain the benefits to issuers, they generally aren't on board.
S/o @fairmint and @Securitize for doing the hard work. 🤝
🚨UPDATE: The list of issuers objecting to @okx/@ICE_Markets tokenizing their shares on its TSV has grown to 50. New additions include Nike, Costco, Micron, Reddit and Nvidia.
The venture initially proposed tokenizing shares from 62 companies.
Full list of objectors here:
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For many startup employees, equity is their biggest asset. But selling it isn't easy.
Approvals, transfer restrictions, finding buyers...
Companies could offer structured liquidity while controlling who owns their shares.
That's what better equity infrastructure should enable.
