Wall Street's Tokenization Push Has Moved From Treasurys to Credit to Equities

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The tokenization of real-world assets has moved faster and broader in 2026 than most observers predicted even twelve months ago. What began as an experiment in tokenizing US Treasury bills — the most liquid and lowest-risk asset class available — has expanded into structured credit products, institutional lending facilities, and now the equity markets themselves. In March, the New York Stock Exchange signed an agreement with Securitize to support a blockchain-based platform for share issuance, trading, and settlement. The same month, Nasdaq partnered with Kraken and tokenization company Backed to develop infrastructure for blockchain-based equities designed to move between traditional and on-chain markets. FalconX's credit vault expansion to Monad is one more data point in a trajectory that is clearly moving toward the tokenization of every major asset class rather than remaining confined to the government debt market where institutional comfort was easiest to establish first.

The composability dimension that Monad's Nathan Cha highlighted is what makes the current phase different from earlier tokenization experiments. In previous cycles, tokenized assets were largely static — a digital representation of a Treasury bill that sat in a wallet and provided proof of ownership but could not be deployed further. The current infrastructure is being built specifically for reuse: FalconX vault tokens can be used as Morpho collateral, syrupUSDC can be used on Aave, BlackRock's BUIDL fund is usable as trading collateral on OKX. Each integration creates new utility for the underlying asset and new demand for the tokenized form, building a flywheel that makes on-chain versions of traditional assets progressively more valuable than their off-chain equivalents as the DeFi composability layer deepens around them.

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NYSE and Nasdaq both signing blockchain equity infrastructure deals same month confirms institutional validation reached equity markets not just government debt

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Nasdaq partnered with Kraken, twelve months ago that sentence would have seemed unlikely