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Injective Seeks SEC Approval to Bring Securities Record-Keeping Onchain

By José Oramas July 17, 2026 In Injective

Injective announced at its July 16 Summit that it has filed for SEC registration as a transfer agent, the entities that keep the official record of who owns a security.
The company says its chain settles transactions in under a second, and registration would place it inside the regulated US securities system for issuing and managing tokenised assets.
The filing was not visible in the SEC’s EDGAR database at the time of writing, and Injective has not named the legal entity behind the application.

Injective says it has filed for registration with the US Securities and Exchange Commission as a transfer agent, announcing at its Injective Summit on July 16 a plan to move shareholder record-keeping and securities ownership tracking onto its blockchain.

Transfer agents keep the official record of who owns a security and update it as assets are bought, sold or transferred.

They sit at the core of US market infrastructure and operate under SEC recordkeeping and processing rules, which is why registration matters for any blockchain aiming to host regulated securities.

“The record of who owns a security is the backbone of every market,” Injective wrote in its announcement. “It decides who gets paid, who can vote, and who can sell.”

“Tokenized securities and RWAs need compliant ownership records on infrastructure that settles in less than a second,” the company stated, adding that it intends to support tokenised securities and real-world assets at scale in the United States.

Filing Not Yet Publicly Visible

Injective did not name the legal entity behind the application or publish the filing itself. Searches of both the SEC’s EDGAR company index and its full-text system showed no matching transfer-agent registration at the time of writing, and new registrations can take time to appear in public indexes.

If the registration goes through, the DeFi-focused network would operate a piece of regulated US market plumbing, supporting compliant issuance and management of tokenised assets with near-instant settlement.

Tokenised real-world assets on-chain are above US$26.4 billion (AU$37.75 billion), with more than US$15 billion (AU$21.45 billion) of that routed through Ethereum as the sector’s primary distribution layer, and record-keeping remains one of its contested infrastructure gaps.