In March 2026, the SEC approved Nasdaq’s plan to trade tokenized securities on its main exchange. Two months earlier, NYSE’s parent company, ICE, unveiled its new platform, which will enable 24/7 trading and on-chain settlement. These are some of the biggest changes to the U.S. market plumbing in decades, and it is happening right now. They are the world’s largest exchanges, and are quietly putting blockchain to work behind the familiar tickers. In this article, we will discuss what’s happening and what it means for you. What tokenisation actually means A token is simply a digital representation of an asset, recorded on a blockchain rather than a traditional ledger. It’s worth remembering that blockchain is a technology. It’s a record-keeping tool that anyone, like crypto firms, banks, exchanges, and central banks, can use. Wall Street’s adoption of it doesn’t make Apple shares “crypto”; it just changes how ownership is recorded. The crucial point is that the...