Vertalo Securities Protocol
One protocol. Every chain. No lock-in.
The VSP is the layer that sits between your internal systems, your service providers, and the blockchains — a flexible, extensible system that combines on-chain smart contracts, off-chain records, and middleware so you can adopt tokenized-asset infrastructure at scale, with lower capital investment and reduced project risk.
● Chain-agnostic · structure-agnostic · asset-agnostic · jurisdiction-agnostic
What it is
A regulation-aware layer between legacy systems and the chain.
Realizing the benefits of tokenization means many parties interacting with the same ledger while staying compliant — something public chains don't provide by default. The VSP bridges that gap: highly compatible with legacy systems and existing networks, and easily adapted to emerging ones, across the full asset lifecycle from issuance to secondary trading.
- Chain-agnostic: Chain integrations are simple adapters — add a network without rearchitecting.
- Structure-agnostic: Equity, debt, funds, or hybrids — model any security structure.
- Asset-agnostic: Real estate, private equity, credit, collectibles — any underlying.
- Jurisdiction-agnostic: Oracle-referenced compliance across regulatory regimes and markets.
Architecture
Lightweight on-chain. Resilient off-chain.
Unlike approaches that encode everything on-chain — expensive, slow, and exposed to downtime — the VSP writes only the highest-value datum, a holder's balance, to the chain. Everything else lives off-chain, synced to chain when it matters.
On-chain + off-chain + middleware
A suite of smart contracts paired with off-chain databases and oracles, positioned between your systems, service providers, and the networks.
Minimal on-chain footprint
Only a holder's balance is written on-chain by default. You can write more when an asset or rule requires it — but you don't pay for what you don't need.
Order-ensured consistency
Events are produced and stored off-chain for compliance and liveliness, then synced to chain in the correct order — including across chains.
Fail-safes by design
If chain data becomes unavailable or corrupted, the off-chain transfer-agent architecture keeps ownership records intact and operations running.
Oracle-based compliance
Because the rules differ by participant and jurisdiction, the VSP references off-chain data through oracles to stay compliant — without bloating the chain.
Backward & forward compatible
APIs and oracles bridge legacy infrastructure; proxy-upgradable smart contracts keep you current as standards and regulation evolve.
Why it matters
The efficiencies of tokenization, without the exposure.
- Faster settlement: Programmatic settlement in milliseconds to minutes, against legacy cycles measured in days.
- Auditable ownership: Shared, immutable audit history — full-transaction or checkpoint models — for compliance and fraud prevention.
- Fractionalization & liquidity: Smaller increments and faster asset velocity open previously illiquid private markets.
- Lower cost & risk: Integrate at scale with lower capital investment and reduced project risk — no rip-and-replace.
Open by design
An open system, not a walled garden.
The VSP accommodates both hosted and installed deployments — run it in Vertalo's cloud, or fully inside your own security perimeter. It integrates into legacy systems through APIs rather than bolting on a parallel stack.
Neutral by design — which is why other platforms and transfer agents can license the VSP instead of rebuilding it.
Cap table management
One ledger, on- and off-chain
Accurate, auditable shareholder records with issuance, secondary transactions, and options — paired with on-chain connections to secondary markets.
Asset management
Any stage of the lifecycle
Adapt already-issued assets to tokenized form, or issue new assets natively — across public, permissioned, or private ledgers.
Cross-chain interoperability
Future-proofed
Support the networks you choose today and adopt emergent ones — including the private ledgers FIs and central banks are building.
Build on the protocol.
Adopt the VSP as your transfer agent, behind your transfer agent, or as the technology inside your own platform.