How Tokenized Stocks Could Reshape Wall Street's Global Power
For decades, Wall Street operated on a simple premise: the U.S. financial system not only produced the world’s most sought-after public companies, but also controlled the infrastructure through which investors around the globe gained access to them.
A company would list on Nasdaq or the NYSE, work with U.S. banks, brokers, and major institutional investors, and spend millions building its brand and cultivating investor relationships. And anyone looking to buy shares in Tesla, Nvidia, or Apple would ultimately enter the same system — through a stock exchange, a broker, and the traditional financial infrastructure.
Tokenization is beginning to break that link.
Today, investors no longer necessarily need to enter the U.S. stock market to gain exposure to an American company. They can simply open a crypto app and buy an instrument linked to shares of Nvidia, Tesla, or Apple — or even to the S&P 500.
The company itself remains...
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