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SEC Commissioner Peirce Narrows Scope of Tokenized Stock Exemption
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce has clarified that a contemplated innovation exemption for onchain stock trading would cover only tokenized versions of existing public equities, with synthetic representations explicitly excluded from the framework. Tokenized private company shares fall outside the envisioned scope, a carve-out that sidelines secondary market platforms like Forge Global and EquityZen that specialize in pre-IPO liquidity. Pre-IPO prediction market structures, including those tied to Polymarket and Nasdaq's emerging products, would find no safe harbor under the potential exemption. The narrower-than-anticipated scope indicates the SEC is treating equity tokenization as a limited pilot anchored to regulated public securities rather than a broad restructuring of capital markets access.
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