Ecosystem of trust

One verified record. Every participant served.

California Stock Exchange brings members, issuers, investors, and regulators onto one regulated venue. We match orders, settle trades instantly, and give each participant a verified, scoped view they can trust without trusting any single desk. No one can alter another participant's record. No single desk controls the truth.

The principle

Verify without trusting. Any authorized party can independently confirm a settlement against a tamper-proof record — no reliance on any single desk.

Who is served

Each role gets exactly what it needs — and nothing more

A single venue serves members, issuers, regulators, custodians, investors, and market makers simultaneously. Each participant sees a view scoped to their role.

Primary user

The Member

The broker-dealer or trading firm executing across public equities, digital assets, and private & SMB markets. Connects an OMS/EMS into the matching engine through standard order-entry and market-data interfaces.

Member dashboard with real-time order and settlement status
Risk and surveillance alerts before they become violations
A verifiable settlement certificate for every execution
Capital raiser

The Issuer

Public companies, private and SMB issuers, and digital-asset offering sponsors raising capital. Need transparent price discovery and a clean path from private to public — at a cost that finally makes public markets reachable for small-cap, high-growth companies.

Listings across public equities, digital assets, and private & SMB markets
Transparent, continuous price discovery for your shares
An affordable, regulatory-efficient path from private secondaries to public listing
Independent verifier

The Regulator

The SEC, FINRA, the California DFPI, and CFTC for certain digital assets. Regulators need real-time surveillance and an independently verifiable record with full chain of custody — not after-the-fact reporting.

Access to a secure, independently verifiable settlement record
Confirm any settlement independently — no single desk required
No reliance on any single desk's account alone
Asset safekeeping

The Custodian

Qualified custodians safekeeping securities and digital assets. Need a continuous, tamper-proof settlement trail to reconcile against instead of end-of-day batch files.

Continuous, tamper-proof settlement trail — not daily snapshots
Clear provenance from execution to settled record
Real-time reconciliation without proportional cost increase
Liquidity provider

Market maker

Liquidity providers quoting two-sided markets across the venue. Need low-latency access, predictable settlement, and a level playing field instead of fragmented, opaque venues.

Low-latency quoting across all three markets
Instant T+0 settlement that frees collateral immediately
A lit, surveilled order book with no hidden double-counting risk
Institutional investor

Investor

Asset managers, pension funds, and digital-asset desks deploying capital across the venue. Need institutional-grade protections and an independently verifiable record to price and trade with confidence.

Transparent, real-time price discovery
Independent proof backing every digital security or asset
Best-execution and market-integrity protections on a regulated venue
Fiduciary

Board & Management

Directors and executives of listed and private issuers carrying responsibility for fair markets in their securities. Need a defensible, independently verifiable trading and settlement record behind every disclosure.

Every trade and settlement captured in a tamper-proof record
A defensible record behind every public disclosure
Confidence that the market in your shares is fair and surveilled
Public sector

Government & policy bodies

State and federal agencies supporting California's capital formation, small-business access to capital, and market-structure policy. Need transparent, verifiable market data to back high-integrity policy.

Transparent data behind capital-formation policy
Verifiable inputs to market-structure and SMB-access programs
Independence preserved — no single-desk-controlled record
Access model

Scoped views. Shared truth.

Every participant reads from the same secure, independently verifiable settlement record - but each one sees a view scoped to their role. No desk can edit, suppress, or fabricate another participant's record.

Participant Access level Primary view Can independently verify
Member Read & submit orders Member trading dashboard
Issuer Read-only · scoped Listing & trading performance
Regulator Read-only · jurisdictional Surveillance & settlement records
Custodian Read-only · accounts scoped Continuous settlement trail
Market maker Read & submit quotes Order book & settlement status
Investor Read-only · per instrument Price discovery & proof of settlement
Board & management Read-only · enterprise-wide Disclosure & market integrity
Government & policy Read-only · jurisdictional Aggregate market data
California Stock Exchange

One venue. Every participant satisfied.

See exactly what your members, issuers, regulators, and custodians would see — before you give them access.

Demo site — for demonstration only, not a live exchange