Last mentioned: Mar 21, 2026
Pilot Program
Expected launch of a pilot program for select S&P 500 stocks on the new DLT infrastructure.
SEC Approval
The SEC grants Nasdaq the authority to move public equity settlement to a blockchain ledger.
SEC Approval
The SEC officially grants Nasdaq the authority to trade and settle tokenized securities.
Market Reaction
Industry analysts identify the move as a major step for RWA tokenization in regulated markets.
SEC Exemption Granted
The U.S. SEC officially grants WisdomTree's request for intraday trading relief.
Public Announcement
WisdomTree and SEC officials release statements regarding the Treasury Money Market Digital Fund.
ICE Announcement
Intercontinental Exchange reveals development of a platform for on-chain settlement of securities.
Initial Filing
Nasdaq files a proposal with the SEC to amend rules for tokenized trading on its main market.
T+1 Implementation
U.S. markets transition to a one-day settlement cycle to reduce systemic risk.
Linq Launch
Nasdaq successfully completes its first private share trade using blockchain technology.
The SEC has officially approved Nasdaq's proposal to integrate blockchain technology into its core trading infrastructure, marking a historic shift toward real-time settlement. This move transitions the traditional T+1 settlement cycle toward an 'atomic' model, potentially saving billions in collateral requirements and reducing systemic risk.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved a landmark proposal by Nasdaq to allow certain stocks and exchange-traded products to be traded and settled in tokenized form. This decision marks a significant integration of blockchain technology into mainstream equity markets, initially targeting high-volume securities within the Russell 1000 Index and major benchmark ETFs.
The Trump administration's latest cyber strategy explicitly integrates the security of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology into national defense priorities. This pivot signals a move toward treating digital assets as critical infrastructure, likely accelerating regulatory clarity and security standards for the RegTech sector.
Ghana Revenue Authority advisor Kenneth Agyei-Duah advocates for a radical shift in customs operations, moving from human-centric gatekeeping to automated, code-verified compliance. By leveraging AI, Blockchain, and IoT, customs administrations aim to eliminate the 'monopoly points' that foster systemic fraud and trade inefficiencies.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has granted WisdomTree a first-of-its-kind exemption to allow intraday trading of its tokenized Treasury Money Market Digital Fund. This regulatory pivot bypasses traditional end-of-day mutual fund pricing, signaling a major shift toward blockchain-enabled capital markets.
This page surfaces every story mentioning Blockchain across our legal coverage. We track each entity's appearance over time so readers can trace how the narrative evolves — which developments are isolated incidents, which build into longer arcs, and which reframe how operators in the space think about the entity. Story selection uses the same multi-source verification gate applied across the rest of our coverage.
Read our editorial methodology for how we identify, deduplicate, and score entity references. Our glossary defines the technical terms used across stories on this page, and our trends index contextualizes individual developments against the longer-running legal beat. Cross-entity comparisons live on our compare view.
| What you see | What it tells you |
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| Story count | Number of distinct stories where Blockchain was a primary or referenced actor. |
| Recency clustering | Whether mentions are concentrated in a recent window (a news cycle) or distributed (a sustained arc). |
| Sentiment distribution | Aggregate sentiment of the stories mentioning this entity, weighted by impact score. |
| Cross-niche links | When the same entity surfaces in our sibling networks, we link to those views to enrich context. |