The line that separates Wall Street from the crypto ecosystem has just become much thinner. Securitize, one of the world’s pioneering and most respected firms in real-world asset tokenization, has made its move by announcing the arrival of twelve of the most important U.S. stocks directly on the Solana blockchain. We’re not talking about synthetic derivatives or isolated experiments: companies such as $AAPLB Apple, $NVDAB Nvidia, $TSLAB Tesla, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet will now have a one-to-one digital representation backed by real shares, designed to preserve classic benefits for shareholders, such as dividend payments and voting rights.
The initial operations will be carried out on Securitize’s platform on the Solana network, using the USDC stablecoin for settlements and relying on institutional liquidity from firms like Jump Trading. What’s truly transformative about this move is the medium-term vision. The project aims to integrate into the future continuous trading platform—24 hours a day, 7 days a week—of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), as well as into the joint initiative between Intercontinental Exchange and OKX, all under the umbrella of the new innovation exemptions the SEC itself is exploring to provide legal cover for these markets.
Bringing exchange-listed stocks to a high-speed, low-fee network like Solana opens the door to a radical shift in how people invest globally. It breaks away from the rigid hours of traditional exchanges, accelerates settlement times from days to seconds, and lays the groundwork so that, in the near future, these same shares can be used as collateral within lending and decentralized finance protocols. Wall Street has stopped resisting blockchain technology and has begun using it as its new operating infrastructure.
Is this the beginning of the end for traditional stockbrokers?
The initial operations will be carried out on Securitize’s platform on the Solana network, using the USDC stablecoin for settlements and relying on institutional liquidity from firms like Jump Trading. What’s truly transformative about this move is the medium-term vision. The project aims to integrate into the future continuous trading platform—24 hours a day, 7 days a week—of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), as well as into the joint initiative between Intercontinental Exchange and OKX, all under the umbrella of the new innovation exemptions the SEC itself is exploring to provide legal cover for these markets.
Bringing exchange-listed stocks to a high-speed, low-fee network like Solana opens the door to a radical shift in how people invest globally. It breaks away from the rigid hours of traditional exchanges, accelerates settlement times from days to seconds, and lays the groundwork so that, in the near future, these same shares can be used as collateral within lending and decentralized finance protocols. Wall Street has stopped resisting blockchain technology and has begun using it as its new operating infrastructure.
Is this the beginning of the end for traditional stockbrokers?