The NYSE just announced a major move — building an all-weather, 24/7 on-chain trading infrastructure. This is not a small project, but a signal that one of the core players in traditional finance is officially entering the blockchain space.

How does it work? Simply put, in the future, you will be able to trade tokenized mainstream stocks and ETFs like Apple and Tesla 24/7, just as smoothly as buying and selling cryptocurrencies. Key points include:

**Lightning-fast settlement**. Say goodbye to the slow T+2 waiting period, and achieve instant settlement with stablecoins. For users accustomed to on-chain real-time transactions, this is a game-changer.

**Significantly lower barriers to entry**. Fractional stock trading means you don’t need to save up enough money for a whole share to get started, doubling flexibility.

**Unchanged shareholder rights**. As a token holder, you retain dividends, voting rights, and other privileges, exactly the same as traditional shareholders.

The behind-the-scenes operator is Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), which has already brought in major players like BNY Mellon and Citigroup to jointly explore tokenized deposits and fiat on-ramps. This lineup indicates that this is not an amateur project from a single department, but a major industry-wide collaboration.

From an industry perspective, this is the most serious embrace of blockchain technology by traditional mainstream finance to date — used for core business operations, not just fringe experiments. When one of the biggest players decides to bring stocks onto the chain, a new financial era is truly knocking on the door.

Of course, it is still in development, and regulatory approval is still pending. But the direction is already very clear.