Nasdaq $NDAQ commits $100 million to Payward, Kraken parent, at $21 billion valuation in latest crypto exchange funding.

According to @MilkRoadDaily, Nasdaq (NDAQ) has filed to trade tokenized stocks, positioning the U.S. equity market’s core exchange to enable blockchain-based settlement for equities. According to @MilkRoadDaily, this could plug trillions in equities directly onto blockchain rails, a development with direct implications for tokenized real-world assets and on-chain market infrastructure.