The Depository and Collection Corporation (DTCC), Wall Street’s central clearinghouse that processes $2.5 quadrillion in securities transactions annually, announced ambitious plans to connect its tokenized securities platform to the Stellar network by the first half of 2027.
The move marks the first time that securities under the custody of a central depository company (DTC) have been listed on a public blockchain network. This trend would move the core of U.S. market infrastructure toward an open ledger, with a “no objection” letter from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) covering Russell 1000 index stocks, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and U.S. Treasury bonds.
Integration mechanism between DTCC and Stellar network
Under the new model, the DTCC custodian maintains the official legal ledger, or “gold ledger,” while the Stellar network hosts a synchronized on-chain representation of these assets. The blockchain token acts as a mirror copy of the original ledger, an arrangement included in the SEC’s December 2025 letter, making the merger of broker-dealers and alternative trading systems (ATS) legally viable.
This integration will support issuance, settlement and lifecycle management of blockchain-based versions of traditional securities. There are explicit plans to expand into highly liquid assets, including major indices and U.S. Treasury debt.
Post-trade settlements on the Stellar network also reduce the time frame from (T+1) to near-instant finality, releasing collateral, reducing counterparty risk and allowing markets to operate outside of normal trading hours.
Nadine Shaker, head of global digital assets at DTCC, confirmed that the institution will not just rely on the Stellar network, but instead plans to connect to “multiple first and second layer networks,” describing Stellar as the first node in a deliberate multi-chain strategy.
Shaker noted that Stellar was chosen as a starter due to its regulatory-compliant design, built-in asset recovery and restricted transfer features, and track record with regulated institutions such as MoneyGram and Circle’s USDC.
For the past two years, the narrative of real-world asset (RWA) tokenization has been at the forefront, but what has been missing is a systemically important institution placing its guarded inventory on a public network within a coherent regulatory framework.
Frank La Sala, CEO of DTCC, said the collaboration “represents another step in the organization’s efforts to build an open and interoperable digital infrastructure, bridging the gap between traditional and digital markets.”
Radical changes in market structure
This announcement puts immediate pressure on competing central clearing houses and central securities depositories globally. If the DTCC model yields positive results by 2027, the system will become exportable and other market infrastructures will face direct institutional pressure to emulate the model or risk being left behind.
Analysts expect DTCC to conduct additional experiments to test intraday tokenized settlement, securities transaction processing, and interoperability between Stellar and private ledgers before expanding the range of eligible assets. The regulatory climate surrounding digital asset infrastructure will play a crucial role in determining the speed of this expansion.
Currently, there are tens of billions of Treasury bills and money market fund shares tokenized on siled platforms, but DTCC’s transfer of its own inventory to the blockchain reduces the distance between limited tokenization experiments and the underlying market infrastructure.
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