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Wall Street's back-office giant DTCC is making a serious move into blockchain territory. CEO Frank La Salla says the clearinghouse is actively evaluating high-performance layer-one blockchains to bring corporate actions like dividend payments onchain. The ambition is real, but so are the technical hurdles standing between legacy finance and distributed ledgers.
Shifting to Washington, Nasdaq's president Tal Cohen says the SEC's softer stance on crypto is finally giving markets room to breathe and build. Cohen pointed to tokenization and digital market infrastructure as areas where firms can now experiment without the same regulatory uncertainty that froze innovation for years. A friendlier regulator, it seems, changes everything.
And in the longer view, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson says Big Tech is quietly terrified about what AI agents will mean for their business models. His argument is straightforward: Google, Amazon, and Meta built empires on human behavior, and AI agents simply will not click ads or browse the way people do. If he is right, the advertising economy that funds the internet faces a fundamental stress test by two thousand thirty five.
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