NYSE President says exchange felt ‘responsibility’ to enter tokenization space

The speech is expected to motorboat 24/7 trading of tokenized assets aboriginal this year.

Feb 18, 2026, 3:58 p.m.

PALM BEACH, Fla. — Facing unit from the increasing momentum down blockchain-based finance, New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) President Lynn Martin said she felt a “responsibility” to get progressive successful tokenization.

“We’ve felt the work to participate into the tokenization conversation,” Martin said astatine the World Liberty forum successful Palm Beach Wednesday. The speech has already developed its tokenization exertion and is moving with regulators to recognize however it tin beryllium utilized wrong the existing fiscal framework, she said.

Tokenization refers to turning real-world assets similar stocks oregon bonds into blockchain-based tokens, with the imaginable for faster settlement, round-the-clock trading, and much programmable fiscal products.

“We’ve learned from challenges,” Martin said, referencing past accent points successful accepted markets related to liquidity and stability. “We’re applying those learnings.”

While the crypto ecosystem has agelong operated connected a 24/7 basis, the NYSE is preparing to motorboat a blockchain-powered level aboriginal this twelvemonth that would alteration around-the-clock trading of tokenized stocks and ETFs, if regulators motion off, straying distant from its accepted 6.5 hour, five-day-a-week trading window.

The speech has not provided a motorboat day oregon elaborate program arsenic of property time.

"It's a infinitesimal we person to prehend arsenic regulators," Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Michael Selig said connected the aforesaid panel.

While erstwhile administrations had "discouraged" improvement of caller tools and products, Selig said, "I privation that to beryllium precise clear, we basal acceptable to physique with the incumbents, caller entrants, aged technologies, caller technologies."

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