Put equity lending onchain, or get out of the way

Equity lending’s outdated batch settlements and manual reconciliations are failing markets. Onchain infrastructure offers real-time, programmable solutions.

Opinion by: Hedy Wang, co-founder and CEO at Block Street

Equity markets are still running on outdated rails — batch files, email reconciliations and sluggish collateral transfers that crawl between custodians through workflows that no one fully controls. 

If the industry wants to maintain credibility, it can no longer tolerate this. The answer is not another incremental patch or painful niche option. It’s a step up to onchain equity lending. Real-time settlement, programmable collateral and transparent rule enforcement will become the benchmark others must meet.

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