The SEC Innovation Exemption: Decoding the Regulatory Bridge for Onchain Equities

The SEC Innovation Exemption: Decoding the Regulatory Bridge for Onchain Equities On September 17, 2026, the SEC established a landmark five-year “Innovation Exemption.” Rather than forcing decentralized infrastructure into legacy regulatory regimes, the Commission established a self-executing conditional relief to allow tokenized U.S stocks to trade onchain