Five-Year SEC Relief Sets Terms for Tokenized Stock AMMs
The SEC issued a temporary, conditional exemption that removes qualifying tokenized securities venues from the statutory definition of an exchange for five years. The framework also allows permissioned automated market makers, but no company has been approved to operate as a trading venue under it yet.
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Tokenized securities venues and companies that want to operate them are the clearest near-term audience for this change. The framework says qualifying venues can use permissioned automated market makers, but no company has been approved to run a trading venue yet, so the practical effect today is that the path is open in principle rather than in operation.
Before this step, qualifying tokenized securities venues were not covered by this five-year exemption from the exchange definition. What changes in practice is that the SEC has carved out temporary relief for those venues and attached permissioned automated market makers to it, while the approval status of any individual company remains unchanged because none has been approved yet.
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