A new report from Nasdaq finds that 52% of global financial institutions expect to be actively managing live tokenized collateral by the end of 2026, reflecting what the authors describe as a shift from “if” to “when” in industry thinking about distributed ledger technology.
The geographic divergence in adoption expectations is striking. Some 78% of North American firms expect tokenized collateral to have a significant impact on their business, compared with 42% in Europe and 31% in Asia Pacific. This reflects a real difference in regulatory momentum, with the SEC no action letter for DTCC’s tokenization platform, live repo trades using tokenized US treasuries, and the CFTC’s recent no action position on digital assets as margin collateral all providing concrete foundations for US adoption.
The report draws on a survey of 203 market participants. Several points merit closer examination.
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