NEW YORK, March 16, 2026- (KOREWIRE) – KoreInside today welcomed recent remarks by SEC Commissioner Hester M. Peirce highlighting the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s continued work on a potential innovation exemption to facilitate limited trading of certain tokenized securities. In remarks delivered on March 12, 2026 at the SEC Investor Advisory Committee meeting, Commissioner Peirce indicated that Commission staff is working on a narrower innovation exemption and raised key questions around disclosure, settlement, intermediary structures, investor protection, and issuer consent in tokenized securities markets.
KoreInside believes these remarks are an important signal that U.S. regulators are moving toward a more practical and structured framework for compliant digital securities infrastructure. The comments reinforce the view that tokenized securities can evolve inside the securities-law framework with appropriate safeguards, transparency, and market-structure controls.
“Ongoing regulatory clarity around tokenized securities is essential to the future of private capital markets,” said Oscar A. Jofre, Co-founder and CEO of KoreInside. “Commissioner Peirce’s remarks reflect a thoughtful and constructive approach to innovation, one that recognizes the importance of investor protection while creating room for compliant experimentation and infrastructure modernization. This has been at the core of KoreInside.”
Recently DTCC report quoted “Interoperability is not optional for digital securities… it’s a prerequisite for adoption at scale.” KoreInside infrastructure has been preparing the private capital markets for this major upgrade by creating the infrastructure that will support Commissioner Hester Pierce and SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins in modernizing both the public and private markets.
KoreInside believes the SEC’s current direction supports the development of a new generation of market infrastructure capable of helping issuers, intermediaries, and ecosystem partners manage issuance, ownership records, transfer workflows, settlement processes, and investor access in a more efficient and transparent manner while simultaneously providing a compliance component to the workflow. The company also sees meaningful relevance for blockchain-enabled transfer-agent modernization and compliant tokenization frameworks that integrate identity, permissions, disclosure, and auditability. KoreInside advocates that blockchain can be very transformative and support a more efficient capital market, but it must include the intermediaries; nobody wants the era of ICO and the tulips.
Across the KoreInside ecosystem, the implications are significant:
For KoreInside Infrastructure: the SEC’s direction supports compliance-first tokenization architecture for regulated securities workflows.
For KoreChain: the remarks strengthen the case for issuer-authorized, programmable, policy-aware digital securities infrastructure. Interoperability is a must that KoreChain has been committed to from day 1.
For KoreTransfer USA LLC: the SEC’s focus on transfer-agent modernization underscores the role transfer agents can play in blockchain-based recordkeeping and tokenized ownership administration.
For KorePay: evolving thinking around settlement mechanics and digital asset market structure increases the importance of compliant payment and settlement rails tied to securities transactions.
KoreInside expects these developments to support stronger collaboration across issuers, transfer agents, broker-dealers, compliance providers, tokenization agents, and technology partners seeking to build the next phase of regulated capital markets infrastructure.
About KoreInside
KoreInside is the infrastructure company for private capital markets, delivering clearing, settlement, distribution, and compliance as neutral, non-competitive infrastructure for regulated intermediaries. Architected as the DTCC-equivalent for private markets, KoreInside powers broker-dealers, ATSs, funding portals, transfer agents, banks, credit unions, and RIAs through white-label, API-first platforms. Its core infrastructure includes KoreID, an interoperable investor and issuer identity passport, and KoreChain, the first SEC-qualified blockchain for private securities, enabling scalable, compliant, and auditable private market transactions.
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