With the SEC's official document, U.S. stocks have become "on-chain." So what’s left of Bitcoin?
Your long-cherished "24/7 trading of U.S. stocks" might become a reality.
Yesterday, the U.S. SEC officially proposed to abolish the "trading penetration rule." In simple terms—platforms on the chain can now directly trade U.S. stocks.
At the same time, Citibank launched tokenized securities, Fidelity’s stablecoin chose Uniswap, and several exchanges quickly上线 tokenized U.S. stock products.
Wall Street is moving the entire stock trading desk onto the blockchain.
Seeing this, shouldn’t you be excited?
But hold on. Let me ask you a question:
If in the future, you can buy and sell Apple, Tesla, Nvidia on-chain anytime, with compliance, security, and liquidity all guaranteed—then who will still buy your "crypto-native assets"?
Bitcoin claims to be "digital gold," but gold can be traded 24 hours a day, and U.S. stocks can too. What’s better about you?
Ethereum calls itself "the world’s computer," but the DeFi running on-chain might in the future be entirely tokenized stock trading pairs—half of Uniswap’s liquidity pools could be Fidelity’s USD stablecoin, and the other half Citibank’s Apple stock. So what about ETH? It’s just a passenger collecting Gas fees.
Think about it:
What was the biggest moat for crypto assets in the past? "Traditional markets are closed, but I’m still open."
U.S. stocks close at 4 p.m., and don’t trade on weekends. You’re eager to jump in. But Bitcoin and Ethereum trade 24/7. That’s a reason many people entered the market.
Now, that reason is gone.
Even more brutally:
Tokenized U.S. stocks are backed by real company profits, buybacks, and dividends. But your copycat coins are only backed by "narratives" and "community consensus."
When Wall Street’s trillions of liquidity flood into on-chain assets, where will the funds flow? Into stocks with real cash flow, or just air with a roadmap?
I’m not saying you should sell all your Bitcoin.
Bitcoin has its faith—decentralization, censorship resistance, fixed supply. These are things stock tokens can’t give you.
But when the biggest advantage—"trading hours"—disappears, the valuation logic of crypto-native assets must be rewritten.
You used to say: "U.S. stocks are great, but you can’t buy them on weekends." That excuse will no longer hold.
So, only two types of assets will truly survive:
Assets that are truly decentralized and permissionless (like BTC, ETH, SOL—layer-one blockchains)—because they offer an "immutable global ledger," not just a trading target.
Pure meme and culture coins—because they don’t compare in value to stocks; they compete in emotion and attention.
And those in-between "half-baked" assets—neither sharing Bitcoin’s faith nor having stock cash flows, nor meme’s viral power—will be drained of liquidity by tokenized U.S. stocks.
Final brutal truth:
"Before, you bought shanzhai because U.S. stocks were closed and you were itching to trade. Now that U.S. stocks are open all the time, who will you itch to scratch?"
This SEC move isn’t just about rules; it’s cutting through the old dream of crypto assets "monopolizing #我的Gate交易时刻 the market with time."
