How Vertalo compares, and why it was built for agents.
Vertalo joins regulated transfer agency, tokenization, a clean typed API surface, and AI into one platform, so issuance, transfer, and recordkeeping run as agent-driven operations inside policy. Your people set the guardrails, handle the exceptions, and keep full access through app.vertalo.com and the API.
AI, end to end
Used across the company and the platform, rather than bolted onto one feature.
A clean API surface
One GraphQL endpoint with 845 typed operations across ten domains.
Regulated transfer agency
An SEC-registered transfer agent, in production since 2018.
Tokenization
Chain-agnostic, across Ethereum, Tezos, Aptos, and private instances.
One GraphQL surface for the full lifecycle of a regulated security
The same surface that powers our own product is the one we hand to you, so anything Vertalo can do, your systems and your agents can do as well. The public reference at api.vertalo.com documents 845 operations across ten functional domains that mirror how a transfer agent and an issuer actually work.
| Domain | Operations |
|---|---|
| Documents, signing & onboarding | 146 |
| Allocations & distributions | 130 |
| Accounts & identity | 120 |
| Integrations, webhooks & automation | 87 |
| Blockchain, contracts & tokenization | 80 |
| Investors & customers | 79 |
| Cap table, holdings & transfers | 60 |
| Assets, securities & rounds | 51 |
| Transfer agency operations | 47 |
| Payments | 45 |
Why it is agent-ready
- Typed and introspectable, so an agent can discover what is available and reason about it rather than guessing at scattered endpoints.
- Typed SDKs turn the schema into safe, autocompleting calls that shorten the path from intent to a working integration.
- Event webhooks let a workflow wait on the platform instead of polling it, then move to the next step on its own.
- Bulk operations for allocations, customers, deposits, rounds, and transfers, so scale is a parameter rather than a rewrite.
- Idempotency, filtering, and cursor pagination, so repeated calls stay safe and large result sets stay manageable.
Guardrails come with the surface rather than bolted on after. Idempotency keeps repeated agent calls safe, role and account scoping limits what any assistant can touch, restrictions and transfer-agent requests keep regulated actions inside the rails, and the golden source ledger records every action so it stays auditable. That combination is what lets an agent run routine work inside policy, while people set the rails and step in on the exceptions.
How Vertalo compares
Transfer agency and tokenization are the functions institutions need in order to participate in this market, and the firms that hold the regulatory standing were not built for an agent-native architecture, while the firms built for blockchain rarely hold the standing. Vertalo was built for both from the start.
| Capability | Vertalo | Legacy transfer agents | Tokenization platforms |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEC-registered transfer agency | Yes | Yes | Varies |
| Clean, typed, introspectable API | Yes | No | Partial |
| Agent-ready, with guardrails in the surface | Yes | No | Read only, where present |
| Chain-agnostic golden source ledger | Yes | No | Single standard or chain |
| AI-native across the platform | Yes | No | Partial |
| On-premises and private deployment | Yes | Varies | No |
| In production since 2018, first onchain RWA equity | Yes | No | No |
Three ways to hold the truth, one that lasts
Every platform in this market makes one architectural choice about where the authoritative record of ownership lives, and that choice decides how durable the platform is as standards and chains keep multiplying.
Embedded compliance
The token contract enforces the rules, which is clean on a single chain, and it ties the platform to one standard for every asset it issues.
Chain-native compliance
Identity and settlement live in a single layer-one, which removes per-asset contracts, and it commits you to that one chain for the life of the asset.
The Vertalo model
The authoritative record is an append-only, independently verifiable ledger, the token is one representation of it, and the platform stays chain-agnostic as standards come and go.
Common questions about Vertalo
Is Vertalo a transfer agent?
Yes. Vertalo is an SEC-registered transfer agent, CIK 0001793379, and it has been in production since 2018, when it recorded the first onchain real-world-asset equity issuance.
What API does Vertalo provide?
One GraphQL API covering the full lifecycle of a private security, with 845 operations documented at api.vertalo.com, 526 read queries and 319 write mutations, across ten functional domains.
Is the platform built for AI agents?
Yes. The API is agent-ready, meaning typed, introspectable, and covered by guardrails in the surface, so an agent runs routine operations inside policy while your people set the guardrails and handle the exceptions.
Does Vertalo support MCP?
Vertalo's typed surface is MCP-ready, so the same operations are exposed to AI assistants as named tools through the Model Context Protocol, and a user can express intent in plain language and have it carried out within the platform's guardrails.
What blockchains does Vertalo support?
Vertalo is chain-agnostic through the Vertalo Securities Protocol, and it operates across Ethereum, Tezos, and Aptos, along with private instances of each.
What is the golden source ledger?
It is Vertalo's authoritative record of ownership, an append-only, immutable, and independently verifiable ledger, and a token is one representation of that record rather than the record itself.
How is Vertalo different from a legacy transfer agent?
Legacy transfer agents hold the standing and were not built for a typed API or an agent-native architecture. Vertalo holds the same standing and was built API-first and agent-ready from the start.
How is Vertalo different from a tokenization platform?
Most tokenization platforms tie an asset to one standard on one chain and do not hold transfer agent standing, while Vertalo keeps the record in a chain-agnostic golden source ledger and is a registered transfer agent.