Corporations Amendment (Digital Assets Framework) Act 2026 (38 of 2026)

Schedule 1   Digital asset platforms and tokenised custody platforms

Part 7   Amendment of the ASIC Act

Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001

77   After paragraph 12BAA(8)(o)

Insert:

(oa) so much of:

(i) a digital asset platform; or

(ii) a tokenised custody platform;

as relates to one or more custodial staking arrangements, if the issuer of the platform holds an Australian financial services licence authorising the provision of financial services relating to the issuing of the platform;

(ob) an interest in something that is not a managed investment scheme because of paragraph (me) or (mf) of the definition of managed investment scheme in section 9 of the Corporations Act, whether or not the interest arises because of the possession of a digital token;

(oc) public digital token infrastructure;

(od) a right, interest or benefit arising:

(i) out of conducting activities described in paragraph 9E(2)(b) of the Corporations Act (about consensus activities involving public digital token infrastructure); and

(ii) whether or not because of the possession of a digital token;