Last mentioned: Mar 26, 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.
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.
This page surfaces every story mentioning Nasdaq 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.
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| What you see | What it tells you |
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| Story count | Number of distinct stories where Nasdaq 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. |