Caesar, the AI co-research platform, has become the crypto-native firm to take steps towards issuing onchain equity via a partnership with Centrifuge. Such a deployment would create a precedent for how token-native startups can mature into “equity-based, investor-ready companies.” Tokenized markets have surpassed $30 billion this year, led by institutions like BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, and Janus Henderson adopting onchain infrastructure.
Caesar’s transition towards tokenized equity issuance indicates that corporate ownership, not only funds and treasuries, are entering the same transformation.
Unlike wrappers or derivatives that mirror share values, equity issued through this approach becomes the “real security itself: recorded and transferable on public blockchains via Centrifuge’s licensed infrastructure.”
Holders receive full shareholder rights, creating a “bridge between crypto participation and traditional ownership.”
Behind every public firm sits a transfer agent maintaining shareholder records and managing ownership rights. Centrifuge brings that functionality onchain, where issuance, transfer, and governance take place “in code instead of paperwork.”
Anil Sood, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Centrifuge said that this is more than an equity issuance; it’s a structural “blueprint for the next generation of companies.”
Sood added that for years, crypto organizations were “forced to choose between innovation and compliance.”
With Caesar, they have shown those paths can align; that an onchain company can operate with the same “legal robustness as a Fortune 500 firm while preserving the openness that defines Web3.”
Mark McKenzie, Founder of Caesar said that Centrifuge provides the bridge between “crypto-native communities and traditional equity ownership,”
McKenzie added that through this partnership, they are “demonstrating that onchain companies can mature into fully compliant, investor-ready businesses without losing their decentralised foundations.”
Together, they are setting a standard for how the “next generation of AI and crypto ventures can grow, with accountability and onchain ownership at their core.”
This collab would demonstrate the “use of Centrifuge’s SEC transfer-agent registration, a framework for maintaining shareholder records and corporate actions.”
Centrifuge automates these functions onchain: share issuance, transfers, and recordkeeping, enable smart contracts that enable “real-time transparency and verifiable ownership.”
Having facilitated $2 billion+ in tokenized assets across institutional funds and credit strategies, Centrifuge is expanding its infrastructure from asset management to corporate finance; “enabling the rails for on-chain IPOs, private-equity programs, and regulated tokenized securities.”
The result is a unified architecture that merges the composability of decentralized finance with the “permanence of traditional capital markets.”
Centrifuge enables asset managers to tokenize, manage, and distribute their funds onchain while “giving investors access to a diversified portfolio of tokenized assets.”
Since 2017, the firm says it has led the charge in real-world asset tokenization, co-founding initiatives like “the Tokenized Asset Coalition and building the infrastructure for compliant, programmable securities.”
