Wall Street warns human-built markets can’t keep up with machine-speed trading

Legacy financial systems face pressure as tokenization and real-time trading push markets toward always-on, automated infrastructure, panelists at Consensus in Miami said on Tuesday. What to know : Wall Street and crypto executives warn that markets are nearing a breaking point as 24/7, machine-driven trading collides with legacy systems built for slower, human-paced processes. Blockchain-based tokenization promises real-time, continuous settlement that could keep both individual and corporate cash fully invested until the moment it is spent, reducing idle balances across the system. Panelists said the main obstacle is not transaction speed but the lack of shared governance standards and rules, which large institutions see as essential to maintaining reliability and trust as markets are rebuilt for automated capital flows.(Coindesk)