Transfers between eligible holders clear on any day, delivery against payment.
Onchain Equity Capital Markets
Every equity market depends on an authoritative record of who owns what. Fairmint is an SEC-registered transfer agent operating that record onchain. It is the foundation for issuance, compliant transactions, financing and liquidity.
Each layer depends on the one beneath it, which is why the register had to come first. Transfer agency is the regulated foundation; the market that can operate on top of it is the opportunity.
* Registration as a transfer agent is not an endorsement of Fairmint by the Commission.
Transfer agency
In the United States, a company’s official list of who owns what is kept by a transfer agent, and that agent answers to the SEC. It is the control point of the entire equity market, and it is where Fairmint chose to start.
Keeps the register in its own database. Anything onchain is a mirror that has to be reconciled back to it.
The register is the onchain record. There is no second copy, so there is nothing to reconcile and nothing to disagree.
Building for the interoperable
Cap tables used to live in whatever shape each platform chose for them. The Open Cap Table Format changed that: one open schema for issuers, share classes, holders and every transaction between them, maintained by the Open Cap Table Coalition and used by leading securities counsel.
A format lets two systems exchange a file. A protocol lets many participants act on the same record without asking anyone for a copy of it.
Fairmint took the standard onchain
A standard established with the firms and institutions that handle trillions in equity
From the founder
The line between private and public markets is an artifact of paperwork. Put ownership on one live interoperable record and that line disappears.”
Eight years of building the parts that make a share real
2018
Reinvent going public. Onchain.
2019
Fairmint founded to rebuild equity infrastructure from the register outward.
2021
Equity issued and recorded onchain with real issuers.
2023
SEC-registered transfer agent, and the first fully onchain-native one.
2025
OCP published, written input submitted to the SEC, and $1B in equity administered.
Today
An industry answer anyone can build on, now plugging into regulated liquidity. Build it with us.
Fairmint today
The authoritative register and regulated export are live today. Transaction workflows are operating at the status shown below.
Live
Operating today, inside the existing regulatory perimeter.
In production
Running with issuers and generally available.
By request
Scoped case by case with the institution.
In development
Broker-dealer and related transaction capabilities, subject to regulatory approval.
What the rail carries
Everything a share does after it is issued runs through the register. One record carries operating companies and the vehicles that invest in them.
Operating companies
Pooled vehicles
One record that regulated applications can build on, without asking anyone for a copy of it. Everything below follows from that.
Transfers between eligible holders clear on any day, delivery against payment.
Eligibility and holder caps enforced at the transfer itself.
Positions a lender can verify, so shares can back financing.
Dividends paid to whoever the record says holds the shares.
What the rail makes possible
Now that ownership is a live record instead of a spreadsheet, it is composable: regulated participants can build directly on it. That is what made DeFi work, and it now applies to real securities without leaving the regulatory perimeter.
Recordkeeping and capital formation are live today. Financing, secondary and settlement are being built with regulated participants and remain subject to regulatory approval.
The market network
Connect capital, distribution, custody, execution or technology to an authoritative equity record, without asking issuers or investors to adopt another proprietary database.
Each connects under its own permissions, and keeps doing what it already does. Fairmint provides the record they all work against, not a replacement for their services.
Connect through OCP, an open protocol published for the industry, rather than a proprietary API you maintain per platform.
Positions, eligibility and transfer restrictions read from the register in a shared schema, not from a file someone sent you.
Open standards, so connecting never means handing over your customers, your systems or your economics.
