The blockchain is coming to Wall Street. The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) said on Monday that it was developing a platform to trade tokenized securities, digital representations of assets like stocks and bonds. But exactly when the 233-year-old financial institution will turn it on is still up in the air. Supporters of the technology argue that the change could modernize the NYSE, giving traders some of the same advantages that are enjoyed by investors in the cryptocurrency world.
Previous market cycles saw Bitcoin oscillate between record highs and steep crashes, movements fueled primarily by individual investors and speculative fervor. This volatility defined the asset's early years. However, late 2025 presents a distinct departure from those cycles. The volatility that once defined the sector is no longer viewed merely as a bug to be fixed, but as a managed feature of a maturing asset class.
Global futures markets were thrown into chaos for several hours after CME Group, the world's largest exchange operator, suffered one of its longest outages in years, halting trading across stocks, bonds, commodities and currencies. By 13:35 GMT on Friday, trading in foreign exchange, stock and bond futures as well as other products had resumed, after having been knocked out for more than 11 hours because of an outage at an important data centre, according to LSEG data.