Platform & APIs

The API didn't go away. It got a front door.

Everything the Vertalo MCP Server does, it does through the same GraphQL API our clients have integrated for years. This page is for builders who want to know exactly what's underneath — and when to call it directly.

How it fits together

One auth model. One permission model. One ledger.

Your agent speaks MCP: it discovers tools, asks clarifying questions, and acts under a delegated role. The server translates every tool call into the same typed GraphQL operations, under the same role model and row-level authorization the API has always enforced. Nothing about your tenant's security posture changes based on which door you walk through.

YOU
Your agent · your app
A server-side MCP client under your control, or your production systems calling the API directly.
FRONT DOOR
MCP Server
Discovery · role scoping · delegation records · human confirmation.
THE API
GraphQL API
Typed entity model — the same operations, with or without the conversation.
RECORD
Shared ledger
Golden source; tokenized via the VSP on the chains you choose.
Machine-to-machine by design

Vertalo’s MCP server gives your engineering team a programmatic surface for building real-world asset management, investor onboarding, and tokenization applications on top of our platform. Access is machine-to-machine only: your backend authenticates via an OAuth client-credentials flow against AWS Cognito, exchanging the client ID and secret we issue for a short-lived access token, then presents that token as a Bearer credential alongside your account-scoping header on every request over Streamable HTTP.

Because these credentials authenticate your application rather than an individual user, they must never be embedded in browser code, mobile binaries, or any client-side context — store them in a secrets manager and confine the token exchange to a middleware or backend service you control, minting tokens on demand rather than persisting them. From there, connect using the MCP client library of your choosing to compose our curated operations into your own onboarding flows, cap table views, and issuance workflows, with your application handling user authentication and authorization at its own layer.

Supported clients. Vertalo’s MCP server is designed for server-to-server integration. Credentials issued to your organization must be used from a backend service under your control; interactive agent and desktop assistant clients are not a supported configuration.

When to use which

Agents to build and operate. The API for what runs every day.

You're doingUseBecause
Exploring, prototyping, agent workflows, back-office automationMCP ServerDiscovery is built in — your agent reads what's possible and acts under supervision, with delegation records for every write
High-volume, deterministic production integrationGraphQL APITyped schema, predictable contracts — the same operations the MCP server uses, without the conversation
Most clients, honestlyBothAgents to build and operate; the API for what runs every day. Same tenant, same register
What the API gives you

The machinery under the front door.

One typed GraphQL endpoint.

200+ operations across the full entity model — issuers, assets, rounds, allocations, holders, documents — so an integration is weeks, not months, with no disruption to the systems you already run.

A shared ledger of record.

One golden source for the cap table and everything attached to it.

Chain-agnostic tokenization.

The VSP keeps the register authoritative while representing holdings on the chain each deal calls for — Ethereum, Tezos, Aptos, and counting.

Deployed your way.

Hosted · Dedicated · 1st Party (your own AWS). Same API at every tier.

Regulatory coverage

All five SEC tokenization models, supported.

In January 2026, the SEC's divisions set out the taxonomy of tokenized securities. Vertalo supports every model in it — operating as an SEC-registered transfer agent at the center of the issuer-sponsored approach.

01

Issuer-sponsored · on-chain

The master securityholder file lives on-chain; a token transfer is the security transfer. Vertalo's home base as a registered TA.

02

Issuer-sponsored · off-chain

Records stay off-chain; the token effects and notifies the transfer on the master securityholder file.

03

Custodial entitlement

A third party tokenizes a security held in custody; the token evidences the holder's interest.

04

Linked security

A token giving synthetic exposure to a referenced security, issued by a third party.

05

Security-based swap

A security-based swap formatted as a token, for eligible contract participants.

SEC Divisions' Statement on Tokenized Securities →  ·  Jan 28, 2026. A staff statement, not a rule.

Your IP

Nothing crosses the wire but data.

MCP and GraphQL are both data planes: tools in, JSON out. What you build against them — your portal, your product, your customer experience — is yours, and every client build is a reference, not an IP dispute. Vertalo's platform, schema internals, and resolvers stay on Vertalo's servers.

There's no SDK with embedded logic to maintain, and no Vertalo code in your stack to audit.

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Build on the register.

Sandbox access is open — bring your agent or your integration team. Same tenant, same register, either door.