Company — Vertalo

The software company connecting and enabling the digital asset ecosystem.

Vertalo is a software company — not a broker-dealer or consultancy — founded in 2017 and issuing natively on-chain since tokenizing its own equity in March 2018. An SEC-registered transfer agent since 2019, we give issuers, asset managers, and transfer agents a secure, cost-effective path to tokenization, integrated into their systems without becoming another intermediary.

  • SEC-registered transfer agent since 2019
  • CIK 0001793379
  • Austin, Texas

Backed across crypto, venture, and capital markets.

Vertalo is supported by strategic and institutional investors spanning the digital-asset, venture, and traditional-finance worlds.

  • Coinbase Ventures
  • CMT Digital
  • Collab+Currency
  • Wavemaker Genesis
  • Naples Technology Ventures
  • Sputnik ATX
  • Quansight Initiate
  • Shasta Ventures
  • OpenTeams Incubator
  • CFC Capital Holdings
  • Capital Factory
  • Wedbush
  • Goren Holm Ventures
  • Tezos Foundation
  • Hampstead Park Capital
  • 11-11 Growth Fund
  • Novablock Capital

In the media

Press & coverage.

Selected coverage of Vertalo and CEO Dave Hendricks across the digital-asset and capital-markets press.

  • [CrowdfundInsider Mar 2026]
    Capital Ideas: why all assets belong on-chain
    Hendricks makes the ledger-maximalist case on ICAN's Capital Ideas podcast, from SEC clarity to curbing naked short selling.
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  • [Cryptonews Nov 2025]
    Investors double down on real-world assets
    Hendricks introduces Venture Asset Treasuries (VATs), actively managed private assets that contrast with crypto-collateralized DATs.
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  • [Cryptonews Aug 2025]
    Banks race to integrate stablecoins
    Hendricks lays out the build-versus-partner dilemma facing banks weighing whether to build their own stablecoin technology.
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  • [Cryptonews Aug 2025]
    Why the GENIUS Act benefits RWA tokenization companies
    Hendricks argues the builders enabling institutions to issue tokenized products are the real winners of stablecoin legislation.
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  • [Cryptonews Jan 2025]
    Crypto community on policy changes under a new administration
    Hendricks calls for an end to regulation-by-enforcement and the legal and insurance costs that ambiguity created.
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  • [Cryptonews May 2024]
    AI solutions seek to advance real-world asset tokenization
    Hendricks frames what qualifies as a real asset under Basel III and how Vertalo has tokenized RWAs since 2018.
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  • [Nikkei FinTech Mar 2024]
    Sumitomo Mitsui FL tokenizes lease and rental assets
    Vertalo named as the technology partner in the Japanese flagship source for the Sumitomo Mitsui leasing proof of concept.
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  • [Ledger Insights Mar 2024]
    Sumitomo Mitsui Leasing trials tokenizing real estate and equipment
    Enterprise trade coverage of the Sumitomo Mitsui proof of concept, with Vertalo providing the tokenization infrastructure.
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  • [CoinGeek Mar 2024]
    Japanese leasing firm trials real estate tokenization with Vertalo
    Open-access coverage of the Sumitomo Mitsui leasing tokenization trial for readers who hit a paywall elsewhere.
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  • [CoinDesk Feb 2024]
    Real-world asset tokenization is fake news
    Hendricks argues that most tokenization claims are vaporware and explains what genuine, production-grade RWA issuance requires.
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  • [CoinDesk Mar 2020]
    Vertalo to tokenize 22 securities worth $200M on Tezos
    Vertalo announces plans to tokenize 22 securities representing $200 million in assets using the Tezos blockchain.
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  • [Crypto Briefing 2026]
    Aptos integrated into the Vertalo Securities Protocol
    Aptos joins Ethereum and Tezos as a supported chain for regulated tokenization on the VSP.
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  • [crypto.news Dec 2025]
    Dave Hendricks on RWAs, stablecoins, and 2026 trends
    Vertalo's CEO on crypto policy, why stablecoins led in 2025, and what comes next for tokenized securities.
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  • [CoinDesk May 2021]
    Coinbase joins $5M funding round for Vertalo
    The Series A drew Coinbase, the Tezos Foundation, Wedbush and others into the digital transfer agent.
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  • [CoinDesk Apr 2020]
    Vertalo and tZERO bring $300M of real estate to Tezos
    The first deal on Vertalo's tokenization platform, alongside Advantage Blockchain.
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  • [BusinessWire Feb 2021]
    tZERO signs technology agreement with Vertalo
    Vertalo-tokenized securities become compatible with the tZERO ATS trading ecosystem.
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  • [crypto.news Aug 2023]
    Exclusive interview with Dave Hendricks
    The Vertalo CEO on the SEC, Bitcoin ETFs, stablecoins, and tokenizing art.
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  • [CoinDesk Aug 2020]
    Vertalo to tokenize real estate in Mexico and Canada
    MountX licenses Vertalo for up to 15 real-estate tokenization projects across two markets.
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  • [Securities.io 2020]
    Interview: Dave Hendricks, co-founder of Vertalo
    On chain-agnostic design and Vertalo's role as connective tissue for the security-token ecosystem.
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  • [CRYPTO 101 · Podcast 2025]
    The security-token ecosystem, with Dave Hendricks
    A deep dive on putting private-asset cap tables on a distributed ledger and connecting them to markets.
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