By Isaac • July 18, 2026 2:28 pm •
The machinery behind the U.S. securities market just moved real assets through blockchain rails.
On Wednesday, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation converted securities held at its depository into tokens and used them in live production transactions.
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JPMorgan tokenized shares of the Invesco QQQ exchange-traded fund. Tokenized assets were posted to CME Group for central-counterparty margin.
Firms also completed Treasury repo, securities-lending, collateral and stock transactions.
This was not another laboratory demonstration using pretend money on a test network.
It also was not the opening of a 24-hour tokenized stock market.
The transactions took place over several hours in a controlled DTC production environment. The broader DTCC Tokenization Service remains a limited, pre-launch program expected to
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