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Money & Markets
The SEC Innovation Exemption already issued to OKXICE means the most conservative institution in US market infrastructure is partnering with a crypto exchange to launch 24/7 tokenized equity trading. Listed companies have 30 days to opt out — not opt in.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
Four agencies are racing toward a January 18, 2027 effective date for crypto regulation. The CFTC's new CTX/CAM framework completes the convergence but excludes the largest category of trading activity by design.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
Bloomberg Terminal now streams Hyperliquid perpetual futures data 24/7. The protocol just distributed its first $14.6M in yield – and is petitioning the CFTC for regulated energy contracts that would challenge CME's commodity franchise.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
New data reveals that over 70% of the largest tokenized assets lack cryptographic proof of collateral, creating a significant blind spot as institutional adoption accelerates.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
The payment infrastructure is ready. The protocols are live. But a fragmented merchant landscape – QVC welcomes agents, Kate Spade lets them browse, Amazon blocks them entirely – is the structural bottleneck nobody is solving.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
The Fed published two proposed rules implementing the GENIUS Act stablecoin framework for state member banks. Rule 1: reserve backing, reporting, capital requirements for Fed-supervised PPSIs. Rule 2: tailored application process for insured state member banks issuing stablecoins through a subsidiary. Both NPRMs have comment deadlines running in parallel with Treasury Section 3 NPRM (Oct 19) and SEC Reg Crypto Assets (Oct 20).
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
DTCC, NYSE, and Nasdaq all integrated blockchain into their core settlement workflows in 2026. The plumbing of institutional finance is moving on-chain rails – and almost nobody is reading it that way.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
When the entity that settles $4.7 quadrillion annually in US securities moves on-chain, the question shifts from whether tokenization is viable to how fast the legacy stack can be decommissioned.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
Bank of North Dakota's Roughrider Coin is the first stablecoin running on Fiserv's new white-label platform. The real signal: the largest payment technology company in community banking just made stablecoin issuance a feature, not a project.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
An interim final rule effective immediately establishes the procedural machinery for certifying state stablecoin regimes. The $10 billion threshold it enforces locks out Tether and Circle from the state pathway entirely.
◆ Nolan Pratt
