NYSE Officially Announces Blockchain Trading Platform: Traditional Finance Enters a New Era of All-Weather Instant Settlement
(January 19, 2026, New York) The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), which has a development history of 233 years, announced a significant announcement on January 19 local time, officially launching a research and development plan for a tokenized securities trading platform based on blockchain technology. This move marks a key step for the world's top traditional financial exchanges to deeply integrate blockchain technology, with the potential to completely restructure the clearing and settlement system of securities trading, promoting the global capital market towards all-weather, high efficiency, and low threshold upgrades. The platform is currently in the critical stage of regulatory approval and is expected to complete pilot testing and gradually go live in the second half of 2026.