Caesar Partners with Centrifuge for the First Onchain Equity Issuance by a Crypto-Native Company

The collaboration will mark the first use of Centrifuge’s SEC-registered transfer agent to bring equities onchain, a milestone for crypto-native companies evolving toward tokenized equity.

Caesar, the AI co-research platform, has become the first crypto-native company to take steps towards issuing onchain equity via a partnership with Centrifuge. Such a deployment would establish precedent for how token-native startups can mature into equity-based, investor-ready companies. ​​

Tokenized markets have surpassed $30 billion in 2025, led by institutions such as BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, and Janus Henderson adopting onchain infrastructure. Caesar’s transition towards tokenized equity issuance signals that corporate ownership, not just funds and treasuries, are now entering the same transformation.

Unlike wrappers or derivatives that simply mirror share values, equity issued through this approach becomes the real security itself: recorded and transferable directly on public blockchains through Centrifuge's licensed infrastructure. Holders receive full shareholder rights, creating a transparent bridge between crypto participation and traditional ownership.

Behind every public company sits a transfer agent maintaining shareholder records and managing ownership rights. Centrifuge brings that same functionality onchain, where issuance, transfer, and governance happen in code instead of paperwork.

“This is more than an equity issuance; it’s a structural blueprint for the next generation of companies,” said Anil Sood, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Centrifuge. “For years, crypto organizations were forced to choose between bleeding edge innovation and compliance. With Caesar, we’ve proven 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.”

“Centrifuge provides the bridge between crypto-native communities and traditional equity ownership,” said Mark McKenzie, Founder of Caesar. “Through this partnership, we are demonstrating that onchain companies can mature into fully compliant, investor-ready businesses without losing their decentralised foundations. Together, we are setting a new standard for how the next generation of AI and crypto ventures can grow, with transparency, accountability and onchain ownership at their core.”

This collaboration would demonstrate the first use of Centrifuge’s SEC transfer-agent registration, a regulated framework for maintaining shareholder records and corporate actions. Centrifuge automates these same functions onchain: share issuance, transfers, and recordkeeping, through smart contracts that enable real-time transparency and verifiable ownership.

Having facilitated more than $2 billion in tokenized assets across institutional funds and credit strategies, Centrifuge is now 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 rigor and permanence of traditional capital markets.

About Centrifuge

Centrifuge empowers asset managers to tokenize, manage, and distribute their funds onchain while giving investors access to a diversified portfolio of tokenized assets. Since 2017, the company 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.

About Caesar

We believe humans are the innovators, the game-changers who move us forward and make a difference. We build AI tools that help understand the world and illuminate paths to answers once out of reach. Our first product, Ask Caesar, is an AI co-researcher that helps you gather information and deeply understand any topic. It works with you—not for you. Learn more: https://caesar.org/ 

‍