There's some news worth paying attention to—Dusk Blockchain and the licensed Dutch exchange NPEX are teaming up to create Europe's first on-chain securities trading platform. This is not just simple asset onboarding; it's a redefinition of the underlying logic of traditional finance.

Specifically, assets like stocks and bonds issued and traded on this platform will have their underlying settlement processes run on Dusk Blockchain. The settlement process that now takes days can be reduced to just a few seconds with blockchain—saving significant intermediary costs. More importantly, traditional securities can gain the flexibility of DeFi, such as bonds being instantly used as collateral.

From a market perspective, this opens a compliant and efficient on-chain channel for the trillion-dollar RWA (Real-World Asset on-chain) market. With mature technical solutions and a solid compliance framework, this is the real combination that can drive industry growth.