The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, which handles roughly $2.5 quadrillion in annual transactions, just received SEC approval to tokenize equities, bonds, and treasury instruments. Real settlement is slated for the second half of 2026. This matters enormously. Whichever blockchain they ultimately pick will likely capture billions in settlement fees just from the $50 trillion U.S. equity market alone—not counting bonds and other assets. To put recent institutional moves in perspective: State Street's $200 million Solana allocation? That's genuinely just the opening act. The actual value extraction happens when legacy financial infrastructure chooses a chain for tokenized asset settlement. We're looking at a structural shift in how trillions move.