Investors want tokenized Apple stock on the blockchain
View original at finance.yahoo.comInvestors want tokenized Apple stock on the blockchain Scott Melker discusses investors' push to have tokenized Apple stock traded on the blockchain, Wall Street's latest opposition to DeFi (or decentralized finance), and other top crypto headlines…
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The incumbent exchange operators need to achieve 24/7 trading capability to compete with HyperLiquid rather than lobbying for its regulation.
60% confidenceBy the end of 2026, everything would be trading on blockchain rails.
60% confidenceUS household debt is at a record high of $18.8 trillion.
60% confidenceHyperLiquid oil perpetuals trading is doing $700 million a day in volume.
60% confidenceUnauthorized tokenization turns every public company into a potential Terra Luna, with the contagion path running through DeFi lending markets and back into real equity prices, and nobody has a legal duty to make holders whole.
60% confidenceTotal bridge attack losses in 2026 have reached $328.6 million.
60% confidenceClemson University is $1.5 billion in debt.
60% confidenceSyracuse University is closing or pausing 93 academic programs.
60% confidenceCredit card delinquency at 90+ days is at 13%, the highest in 23 years of data, higher than during the 2008 financial crisis.
60% confidenceStudent loan debt 90+ days delinquent is at 10.3%.
60% confidenceCoinbase, Robinhood, OKX, and Kraken (which already has xStocks) are all building to be all-in-one everything apps for tokenized trading.
60% confidenceCrypto usage among Americans is rising back to 10% after peaking at 12% in 2021, and is projected to surpass 2021 levels soon.
60% confidenceThe US national debt is almost $40 trillion.
60% confidenceFertility rates peaked in 2007, and the resulting smaller cohort of young adults is now reaching college age, driving declining university enrollment and fiscal stress.
60% confidenceIf third parties can tokenize Apple or Amazon without the issuer at the table, there is no theoretical limit on how many wrappers of the same company exist at once.
60% confidenceCME Group and ICE lobbied the CFTC citing oil market manipulation and sanctions evasion concerns about HyperLiquid, without presenting any proof.
60% confidenceUnauthorized stock tokenization creates risks including infinite synthetic supply, use as DeFi collateral, de-peg events on corporate actions, cascading liquidations, contagion into real equity markets, and no legal accountability.
60% confidenceThe SEC is proposing an innovation exemption that would allow tokenization of stocks without permission from the issuer, potentially released by end of the week.
60% confidenceThere have been 14 major DeFi exploits in May 2026 alone as of May 19th, meaning only 5 days of the month were exploit-free.
60% confidenceUNC Chapel Hill plans to cut spending by $89 million.
60% confidenceDeFi is clearly not ready for prime time and there is incredible systemic risk in sending tokenized stocks into DeFi infrastructure.
60% confidenceThe SEC's innovation exemption would enable 24/7, 365-day trading of stocks on blockchain rails, largely on unregulated decentralized exchanges without KYC/AML, available to everyone worldwide.
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