Digital Assets at Nasdaq

Several decades ago, Nasdaq pioneered electronic trading, but innovation is coded in our DNA, and it defines our approach to new and emerging technologies. 

Digital Assets, tokenization, and blockchain hold real potential to improve efficiency, accelerate settlement, and create a single source of truth.

We believe that the right path forward is to promote innovation and technological advancement associated with digital assets, while still maintaining the necessary and prudent guardrails that protect investors, promote liquidity, ensure transparency and protect integrity. Providing financial institutions with trusted and scalable technology solutions for both traditional finance and digital assets.   

As these markets converge, Nasdaq brings the discipline of regulated environments to emerging models, with trust, transparency, and investor protection at the core.

This hub offers practical insights, policy perspectives, and use cases to help you navigate the next chapter of digital finance with confidence.

Learn more in the resources and thought leadership below.

Tokenized Securities: Harmonization of Digital and Traditional

Tokenization and the underlying blockchain technology have great potential to transform the financial system and to benefit economies globally, removing unnecessary friction, making workflows more efficient, and resilient.

Learn more about how Nasdaq is proposing extending its use of Tokenization in U.S Securities Markets:

• Q&A: Nasdaq’s New Proposal for Tokenized Securities
• Nasdaq President Tal Cohen's Note on Tokenized Securities
• Tokenized Securities Public Filing
• FAQs

Digital Asset Thought Leadership: Striking a Balance Between Modernization of the Financial Ecosystem and the Protection of Investors

As an industry, it is essential to maintain a careful balance between embracing innovation and protecting investors. At Nasdaq, we believe that the right path forward is to promote innovation and technological advancement associated with digital assets, while still maintaining the necessary and prudent guardrails that protect investors, promote liquidity, ensure transparency and protect integrity.

• Navigating the Regulatory Landscape: Key Takeaways from Nasdaq's Digital Assets Comment Letter to the SEC
• Letter to SEC Crypto Task Force on Digital Assets
• Letter to SEC on ETFs
• Letter to the SEC on a Digital Sandbox
• Eun Ah Choi participation in SEC Crypto Roundtable
• Nasdaq and CME Group Deepen Partnership to Advance New Era of Crypto Investing