Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
In 1792, 24 brokers met under a buttonwood tree on Wall Street and signed the agreement that became the New York Stock Exchange. 234 years later, Wall Street just signed its second one — on a blockchain.
Go to skool.com/coinpicksgenesis or tap the link in my bio and see exactly how we're taking advantage of news like this, for a dollar.
For 234 years, if you wanted to own a piece of America you went through their system — brokers, middlemen, paperwork, days of waiting for trades to settle. That era just got an expiration date, and it's this year. The DTCC — the company that settles every stock trade in America, holding over $114 trillion — is moving real assets onto blockchain rails. Not someday: the pilot started this month, real trades in a live production environment, with the full service opening in October. They already ran live test trades with tokenized treasuries without a hitch. Think about what settlement used to look like — trades took days to clear, and moving to a single day was considered progress. On a blockchain it's seconds, around the clock, weekends and holidays included, because the chain never sleeps. Here's the twist: in May the DTCC announced it's connecting to Stellar, a public blockchain — not a private bank network behind closed doors, the same kind of open rails your crypto runs on, where anyone can verify it. So who signed this new agreement? BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Citibank, State Street — more than 50 firms. And this time, crypto has a seat at the table: Circle, Ondo Finance and Ripple are helping build it. In 1792 it took 24 men under a tree; in 2026 it took the entire financial system. The SEC already blessed it on December 11 with a three-year green light. Nasdaq is building equity tokens, and the New York Stock Exchange itself is building an on-chain platform — even the exchange born from the buttonwood tree knows the tree is coming down. Tokenized stocks are up 2,900% in a year, the tokenized-asset market just passed $64 billion, and BlackRock's CEO says every stock, bond and fund ends up on-chain. Every couple hundred years the rails of money get rebuilt — you don't choose when it happens, only whether you're positioned.
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In 1792, 24 brokers met under a buttonwood tree on Wall Street and signed the agreement that became the New York Stock Exchange. 234 years later, Wall Street just signed its second one — on a blockchain.
Go to skool.com/coinpicksgenesis or tap the link in my bio and see exactly how we're taking advantage of news like this, for a dollar.
For 234 years, if you wanted to own a piece of America you went through their system — brokers, middlemen, paperwork, days of waiting for trades to settle. That era just got an expiration date, and it's this year. The DTCC — the company that settles every stock trade in America, holding over $114 trillion — is moving real assets onto blockchain rails. Not someday: the pilot started this month, real trades in a live production environment, with the full service opening in October. They already ran live test trades with tokenized treasuries without a hitch. Think about what settlement used to look like — trades took days to clear, and moving to a single day was considered progress. On a blockchain it's seconds, around the clock, weekends and holidays included, because the chain never sleeps. Here's the twist: in May the DTCC announced it's connecting to Stellar, a public blockchain — not a private bank network behind closed doors, the same kind of open rails your crypto runs on, where anyone can verify it. So who signed this new agreement? BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Citibank, State Street — more than 50 firms. And this time, crypto has a seat at the table: Circle, Ondo Finance and Ripple are helping build it. In 1792 it took 24 men under a tree; in 2026 it took the entire financial system. The SEC already blessed it on December 11 with a three-year green light. Nasdaq is building equity tokens, and the New York Stock Exchange itself is building an on-chain platform — even the exchange born from the buttonwood tree knows the tree is coming down. Tokenized stocks are up 2,900% in a year, the tokenized-asset market just passed $64 billion, and BlackRock's CEO says every stock, bond and fund ends up on-chain. Every couple hundred years the rails of money get rebuilt — you don't choose when it happens, only whether you're positioned.
Follow for the next breakdown.
