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The line between public and private markets is getting thinner. OpenAI is still private, but its March 31 funding round included about $3 billion from individual investors through bank channels, with ARK also set to provide ETF exposure ahead of a reported IPO. When access broadens before a listing, the label may still say private, but the market behavior is already changing. That is why Fairmint is building infrastructure for private markets and equity onchain, starting with the cap table and ownership record itself.

Secondaries are now roughly the same size as IPOs and M&A exits. That is a signal: liquidity in private markets is no longer defined by a single event. It is becoming infrastructure-driven. At Fairmint, we are building that infrastructure for private markets and equity onchain, starting with the cap table and ownership record itself. If the source of truth for who owns what stays offchain, markets may look more digital, but they do not fundamentally work better. Ownership stays fragmented, transfers stay manual, and compliance stays process-heavy.

Fairmint is in Cannes this week for EthCC and The Agora. Joris Delanoue and Chad Oda are in town through April 2, meeting with issuers, allocators, and infrastructure teams working to bring private-market rails into real usage. If you’re in Cannes and want to talk onchain equity or market structure, send us a note.

Digital Asset Summit 2026 was a strong week for the Fairmint team. From the booth to the stage, we spent the week in conversations with founders, investors, and market participants focused on the infrastructure behind private equity onchain. Thank you to everyone who stopped by and spent time with us in New York.

Yesterday at Digital Asset Summit 2026, our CEO Joris Delanoue laid out the infrastructure gap at the center of private markets. Private companies now have secondaries, tender offers, bank-led distribution, and expanding investor access. But ownership records, transfer controls, and compliance workflows still sit across fragmented cap tables and manual processes. That creates a real infrastructure problem: new liquidity is being layered onto a fragmented system of record. The next step is to move the source of truth onchain. At Fairmint, this is what we have been building: • $1.5B+ in equity processed onchain • SEC-registered transfer agent since 2023 • Open Cap Table Protocol (OCP), built with leading U.S. law firms Not reinventing the system. Upgrading it from within. If you’re at DAS, stop by Booth K29 and meet the team.

Our CEO Joris Delanoue speaks today at 9:50 AM ET on the Digital Asset Summit 2026 NYC Main Stage. His keynote, “The Blurring Lines of Public & Private Markets,” will cover why the infrastructure gap between public and private markets is becoming harder to ignore. Private markets now carry massive economic weight, but ownership records, compliance, and transfers still run on fragmented systems. That mismatch is becoming unsustainable. At DAS NYC, Joris will outline why the cap table is the real bottleneck and why onchain ownership rails matter now. Join us at 9:50 AM ET. Then stop by Booth K29.

Day 1 at Digital Asset Summit — Booth K29 Ahead of DAS, we sat down with senior operators across capital markets and infrastructure: • Mark Toomey (Canton Strategic Holdings, NASDAQ: CNTN) • Yiannis Varelas (Five North) • Ambre Soubiran (Kaiko) • Jørgen Ouaknine (Euroclear) Different vantage points. Same conclusion: → private markets are still running on legacy rails → the next phase is infrastructure, not point solutions That’s the layer we’re focused on at Fairmint. If you’re at DAS, come by — right under the banner. 

See you tomorrow at Digital Asset Summit NYC. We’ll be on the ground all week with the Fairmint team at booth K29. On Wednesday at 9:50–10:10 AM, Fairmint CEO Joris Delanoue will be on the Main Stage speaking on: “The Blurring Lines of Public & Private Markets” If you’re focused on where private markets infrastructure is heading, this will be a high-signal session. As a sponsor, we have a limited number of tickets reserved for senior operators and allocators — DM if relevant.

The biggest shift in capital markets right now is not technical. It is institutional. In his latest interview with The Big Whale, our co-founder and CEO Joris Delanoue explains why the conversation around onchain finance has changed. This is no longer about proof-of-concept. It is about where issuance lives, which standards become default, and what infrastructure is required for institutions to move real ownership onchain. That shift matters. The next phase of tokenization will be defined less by attention and more by robust rails for issuance, registry, settlement, and interoperability.

Last night’s Canton & Capital Markets dinner in NYC was a great success. Together with Canton Strategic Holdings and The RWA Desk, we convened a highly curated room of executive-level stakeholders, senior executives, and capital allocators for a direct conversation on one question: how does institutional issuance actually scale from here? The discussion made one thing clear: tokenization has moved beyond proof-of-concept. The conversation is now about where issuance lives, which standards become default, and what operational infrastructure is required to move real volume onchain. Thank you to everyone who joined us for a high-signal evening of conversation, perspective, and connection.