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_**Opinion by: Mike Cahill, co-founder and CEO of Douro Labs**_
Despite the institutional frenzy around crypto and the ubiquitous narrative of 
democratized access to investing, most of the world population is still barred 
from traditional wealth-building.
Take the US, for example &#8212; here, the top 10% of earners own more than 90% of 
all stocks. On a global scale, it gets even worse: Billions of individuals 
don&#8217;t have the financial literacy, digital tools or minimum funds required to 
even access the most basic investment opportunities.
Traditional institutions must do more than just invest in crypto to ameliorate 
this disparity &#8212; they must start employing digital assets for new use cases 
altogether.
The facet of TradFi that is most ripe for disruption is equities. Investing in 
shares of private companies is an opportunity historically reserved only for 
the wealthy and hyper-connected. It is often siloed within the most 
economically advanced nations. Enhancing access to equities worldwide can be 
achieved, however, by injecting decentralized technology into three 
fundamental components of our financial system: price, execution and 
settlement.
## The bedrock of traditional finance
Equities typically refer to shares of private companies, and they&#8217;re one of 
the most potent tools for wealth creation. On top of regulation, the main 
factor restricting access to equities is the infrastructure that underpins our 
financial system: stale and inaccurate pricing data, exclusive execution 
venues and painfully slow settlement periods.
## Price
Traditional equity markets are private. Here, pricing data is sequestered 
behind non-disclosure agreements, paywalls and groups of individuals who want 
to keep this information to themselves. Access to accurate, real-time pricing 
is what enables investors to make informed decisions, and it&#8217;s the crucial 
ingredient required to participate at all. If pricing data remains in the 
hands of those who can afford access or run in the right social circles, the 
system will continue to support only a small group of wealthy, privileged 
people.
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## Execution
While many apps and platforms might make it seem like buying equities is as 
easy as pressing a button, the reality is that making these types of 
investments almost always requires strict vetting processes and minimum 
investment thresholds that everyday investors just don&#8217;t have access to. While 
it seems like public markets should be exempt from these barriers, brokerage 
fees and geographic limitations can still hamper participation. As a result, 
the current systems simply uphold the &#8220;rich get richer, poor get poorer&#8221; 
narrative.
## Settlement
Most traders have experienced the frustratingly slow, highly bureaucratic and 
hazardous equity settlement systems in place today. It can take several days 
for a single trade to finalize. If it&#8217;s a cross-border trade, settlement times 
can lag even more. This results in capital being locked up, further dissuading 
smaller investors from participating &#8212; a snowball effect that keeps access to 
equities solely in the hands of the most elite traders.
While these barriers are undoubtedly systemic, they&#8217;re also very solvable. As 
history has shown, time and time again, innovation always forces a shift. 
That&#8217;s where decentralized finance (DeFi) comes in.
## Reimagining infrastructure through DeFi
Decentralized technologies have the potential to reimagine TradFi&#8217;s 
infrastructure to create a system that is faster, more accessible and more 
efficient and unlock new forms of equities participation. These include 
synthetic equity markets, tokenized private equity and even equity-based 
prediction markets.
Regarding price, execution and settlement, DeFi and TradFi have the 
opportunity to work together, combining forces to offer a new foundation to 
the financial system that promotes equity, access and transparency.
Decentralized price feeds offer real-time, accurate price data on equities 
that don&#8217;t come at the exorbitant price of a Bloomberg Terminal. They empower 
traders of any background or location to access fresh market data to trade 
equities with the same knowledge as the most elite traders.
At the same time, decentralized execution platforms enable marketplaces for 
fractional, tokenized equity exposure. Now, if traders have an internet 
connection, they can make trades supported by smart contracts that automate 
trade matching, liquidity provision and order fulfillment. This empowers 
traders to purchase small, fractional stakes in these assets, empowering those 
even in the most rural and secluded areas of the world to own a piece of the 
same high-growth company as an accredited investor in the US.
Finally, settlement in DeFi is almost instantaneous. That&#8217;s because blockchain 
removes the need for intermediaries, making it possible for equities to be 
traded in milliseconds. This dramatically reduces counterparty risk while 
unlocking capital for continuous use, making trading even more attractive to 
smaller players.
## Building the next generation of finance
Creating a financial system that is genuinely democratized means more than 
encouraging institutions to buy and trade digital assets. It means rethinking 
the way our financial infrastructure exists and operates today. While equities 
are one of the most powerful wealth-building tools available, most of the 
global population still can&#8217;t access them due to geography, legacy and 
privilege. Through revolutionizing price, execution and settlement via 
decentralized innovations, equities can be entirely disrupted &#8212; closing the 
wealth gap that keeps billions of people at the mercy of a select few.
_**Opinion by: Mike Cahill, co-founder and CEO of Douro Labs.**_
This article is for general information purposes and is not intended to be and 
should not be taken as legal or investment advice. The views, thoughts, and 
opinions expressed here are the author&#8217;s alone and do not necessarily reflect 
or represent the views and opinions of Cointelegraph.

The facet of TradFi most ripe for disruption is equities

JPMorgan&#8217;s move to public blockchain for tokenized trades signals a shift 
towards integrating decentralized finance in traditional banking.
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JPMorgan completes first public tokenized treasury trade in partnership with Ondo Finance, Chainlink

Chainlink, JPMorgan’s blockchain unit Kinexys, and Ondo Finance have completed 
the first cross-chain Delivery versus Payment (DvP) transaction on Ondo 
Chain’s testnet, integrating traditional bank payment rails with tokenized 
asset markets. First Cross-Chain DvP The transaction, according to the release 
sent to Bitcoin.com News, settled Ondo Finance’s tokenized U.S. Treasuries 
Fund (OUSG) using JPMorgan’s permissioned […]