Startups & Venture
Infrastructure, Not Ideas, Is What’s Blocking Global Tokenized Markets
Tokenization of securities and real assets is moving from promise to practice, but public blockchains still lack the throughput, latency/finality and protocol-level protections against extractable value needed for institutional trading. Unless engineers build base layers with vastly higher sustained TPS, sub-second finality and neutral, auditable ordering, large custodians and trading firms will either stay on the sidelines or create controlled settlement rails.