2026-01-20 02:20:34

The shift of major capital markets infrastructure onchain is accelerating. A leading U.S. stock exchange is rolling out a platform enabling tokenized equities and ETFs to trade directly on blockchain rails, featuring round-the-clock trading windows, support for fractional ownership, and settlement that completes in near real-time rather than T+2 cycles.

This signals something fundamental: traditional finance infrastructure is beginning to adopt blockchain's operational advantages. When Wall Street can execute trades 24/7 with immediate settlement and allow micro-level asset ownership, the distinction between traditional markets and crypto infrastructure starts to blur. The capital markets are discovering what decentralized systems proved years ago—transparency, speed, and accessibility compound into competitive edges.

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GasGasGasBro

· 3h ago

Wall Street has finally woken up, we've known about this for a long time Real on-chain transactions are here, traditional finance is copying our homework 24/7 trading, no hype, no black, this is the right way, brothers T+2 is gone, instant settlement—who can withstand this? Wait, are they only now realizing that blockchain is actually useful? The on-chain future has arrived, just unevenly distributed Is Wall Street applying a lower-dimensional strike or is it self-rescue... I can't figure it out Tokenization of everything, is the death knell of traditional finance ringing?

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GateUser-9f682d4c

· 3h ago

Wall Street is finally catching up with us, this is what you call a dimensionality reduction attack --- T+2 has to change to T+0, traditional finance is just copying our homework --- Haha, they only talk about 24-hour trading now, but Web3 has been doing this for a long time --- To put it simply, when decentralization is ignored, it's just scammers; only after making money do they want to learn --- Partial ownership? The crypto world has understood this long ago; now we finally see what true efficiency is --- Hold on, is this really going on-chain? Then do exchanges still have a reason to exist? --- What’s the point of blurred boundaries? It’s just traditional finance copying us --- They’ve been talking about real-time settlement for years, and now they’re finally going to do it

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GameFiCritic

· 3h ago

24/7 trading + instant settlement, Wall Street finally understands the value of decentralization. Just not sure if this time it will turn into a "centralized blockchain"...

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SmartContractWorker

· 3h ago

Wall Street has finally woken up; they've only just started paying attention to what we've been playing with for a long time. T+2 to real-time settlement? To put it nicely, they’re learning from us; to be blunt, they’re just forced to follow suit. 24/7 trading, this fundamental operation—how long did traditional finance take to figure it out? Blurred boundaries? Clearly, they only started copying after getting beaten. The capital markets suddenly realize that decentralization is useful; we've been relying on this for years. This time, it's real—the migration of traditional finance to the blockchain has become a major trend. Wait, who is actually making money from the real competitive advantage? That’s the key. It feels like Wall Street is starting to compromise; it won’t be long before everything is on-chain. Honestly, Web2 has finally bowed its head. Think in reverse—does this really benefit us ordinary retail investors?

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DegenDreamer

· 3h ago

Wall Street is finally learning our tricks. It's a bit late, buddy. T+2 should have died already. Isn't 24/7 trading more appealing? Wait, does this mean the coins I bought can finally be cleaned? Ultimately, we've seen through it long ago. They're only waking up now. But if it really goes on the chain, can they run away? I need to see about that.

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