WikiBit Tokenized U.S. Stocks Series 3: Why Now? From Bitcoin’s Rejection to Wall Street’s Embrace of Blockchain

Why has blockchain, the underlying technology behind Bitcoin, gone from being dismissed by Wall Street to becoming a new favorite among financial giants？　　Imagine this: One day, as a non-U.S. citizen, you buy a share of Apple stock. You dont have to wait for traditional financial markets to open or go through a complicated series of settlement procedures. Instead, you can transfer your shares through a blockchain and, where permitted by applicable rules, even use them as collateral for on-chain lending.　　Meanwhile, the U.S. dollar circulates on blockchain networks in the form of stablecoins. Treasury securities, funds, and an expanding range of traditional financial assets are also beginning to have their own on-chain versions.　　Does it sound like something out of a science-fiction movie？ Yet this is no longer just a fantasy dreamed up by the crypto industry.　　In 2026, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) introduced a temporary, conditional innovation exemption for certain tokenized U.S. stock trading scenarios, creating new opportunities for eligible on-chain securities trading venues to experiment.　　But lets be clear: This does not mean that all U.S. stocks can now be freely moved onto blockchains and traded without restrictions, nor does it mean regulators have fully opened the floodgates.　　Instead, it