Opinion by: Chris Kim, CEO and co-founder at Axis.
Shorter settlement cycles are now sweeping the globe. In 2024, the United States moved equities to T+1 settlement. Europe, the United Kingdom, and several Asian markets are expected to follow this lead by 2027. Trades are moving ever closer to real-time.
The markets that fail to keep up risk falling behind.
Blockchain-based finance pushes that concept even further. Stablecoins and tokenized assets enable transactions to settle instantly through atomic settlement, where payment and asset transfer occur simultaneously, allowing counterparty credit risk to disappear.
The promise of faster, safer settlement has driven stablecoin transfer volume over $1.8 trillion.
Yet, the speed that removes one risk introduces another. Capital must be ready…
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Source cointelegraph.com
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