Trading platforms increase their crypto assets, layer-two chain technology reshapes the financial trading landscape

【Crypto World】The head of a well-known trading platform, Vlad Tenev, hasn’t been idle lately. First, he spent $200 million to acquire the renowned crypto exchange Bitstamp, then immediately listed popular tokens like XRP, SOL, BNB, and others on the platform. But that’s not all; they are also offering over 200 tokenized US stocks and ETFs through Arbitrum in Europe—imagine, traditional financial assets can also be tokenized and traded.

What’s more interesting is that this platform has long supported staking services for Ethereum and Solana, and has launched EU perpetual futures. But the real big move is their self-developed Layer 2 blockchain platform, aiming at a tokenized asset trading ecosystem with low fees and instant settlement.

At the recent Token2049 conference, Tenev made a bold statement: “Tokenization will completely transform the entire financial system.” This is not just empty talk but a concrete effort to reshape the boundaries of the trading ecosystem—from stocks to crypto, from centralized to on-chain. The era of tokenized assets seems to have truly arrived.