everyone is quite bullish this NYSE announcement of 24/7 trading and tokenization - however i think it really depends on how you look at it in context with the US market structure bill coming soon and if you are okay with your tokens being considered digital asset securities
ofc this solves a lot of the perp funding issues in AH trading - but i still expect some funky funding and price action on equity perps at least through YE
first, this NYSE announcement doesnt mean nyse is listing BTC ETH and SOL as they are likely to fall under CFTC jurisdiction.
second, NYSE is positioning for tokenized equities (24/7 + instant settlement) and digital asset securities.
from the market structure bill itself (page 25, Section 103), a token is NOT a digital commodity if it:
"represents or gives the holder an ownership interest or other interest in the revenues, profits, obligations, debts, assets... of the issuer"
someone correct me if i'm wrong, but it means that if it goes through then businesses like lighter will need to file an s1 and are likely deemed a digital asset security right? if so they will need to do proper reporting. everyone assumes "security" for crypto tokens = bad but this isnt true imo
i think this will actually solve a bunch of the token issues we have had in the past with poor operator practices and poor uses of capital. if you are a team and you believe this passes as is, i think you should get ahead of it and be hyper transparent. share something akin to an income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement. i think @Lighter_xyz should be doing this as a US based company (probably @OstiumLabs too) and as they try to win the favor of regulators and allocators. set the gold standard in the US and this will put you in good light with regulators and also shows allocators and CT that you are aligned and spending capital wisely on high ROI new ventures (options, predictions markets, on/off ramp, virtual banking)
but why do this now when you dont have to?
^ because it does two things. (1) it puts you in the good grace of US regulators early which gives you mindshare with them and (2) you are being radically transparent with current liquid allocators and CT.
as ive mentioned before, i firmly believe that one of the reasons $HYPE did so well last year was because it was an "easy" asset to own and an "easy" asset to bring to IC because as an analysts you knew where most profits were flowing and as a PM it was an easy story to sell to your LPs (ie @novogratz on cnbc and bloomberg). I think $LIT can do this as well and capture most of the US regulatory mindshare if they execute on this and are increasingly transparent.
^ obviously i'm not a securities lawyer so plz tell me where i'm wrong