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SEC Grants Five-Year Innovation Exemption for Tokenized Stock Venues

The regulator granted conditional exemptive relief from exchange and dealer registration to enable onchain trading of tokenized NMS stocks via permissioned AMMs.

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Key point 1 of 3

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The SEC granted temporary five-year conditional exemptions for Tokenized Securities Venues from the Exchange Act definition of an exchange.

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Key point 2 of 3

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TSVs may operate permissioned AMM liquidity pools on public, permissionless ledgers under defined volume and symbol limits.

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Key point 3 of 3

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Liquidity providers committing proprietary capital to TSV pools receive conditional relief from broker-dealer registration.

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Context

The SEC has historically required equity trading platforms to register as national securities exchanges or alternative trading systems, creating friction for onchain AMM designs.

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Why it matters

Firms developing real-world asset infrastructure can operate permissioned AMM pools for tokenized equities without standard broker-dealer and exchange registration burdens.

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What to watch

Publication of the order in the Federal Register, which starts the public comment window and marks the beginning of the five-year exemption period.

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