DTCC’s RWA Tokenization Service Lands On Stellar, Bridging Wall Street Assets With Public Blockchain Infrastructure
In Brief
DTCC and Stellar partner to tokenize DTC-custodied assets on blockchain, promising faster settlement, lower costs, and greater asset mobility by 2027.
Financial services company DTCC and the Stellar Development Foundation, the organization behind Stellar network, announced a strategic collaboration to enable the tokenization of assets held in custody by The Depository Trust Company (DTC) on the Stellar blockchain.
The move marks a step in bridging regulated financial infrastructure with public distributed ledger technology, and follows an SEC No-Action Letter issued to DTC in December 2025 that authorized the firm to implement and operate a service for tokenizing real-world assets.
The letter was a pivotal regulatory milestone, as it formally cleared the path for DTC to offer tokenization capabilities while ensuring that market participants retain the same investor protections and safeguards applicable to traditionally held securities.
Under the partnership, DTC-tokenized assets are expected to go live on the Stellar network in the first half of 2027. In the meantime, both organizations will work together to assess eligible asset classes for tokenization, with particular focus on highly liquid instruments such as constituents of the Russell 1000, major index ETFs, and U.S. Treasury bills, bonds, and notes.
Operational Benefits and Market Implications
The integration is designed to deliver meaningful improvements across the post-trade lifecycle. Settlement times for eligible transfers could shrink from days to minutes, while tokenized assets would gain mobility across digital venues without exiting the regulated perimeter — a key consideration for institutional participants wary of sacrificing oversight for efficiency.
The framework also opens the door to trading beyond the constraints of traditional market hours, giving participants greater flexibility in managing positions and executing transactions.
Additionally, the partnership is expected to reduce costs by eliminating intermediated steps and reducing reconciliation overhead, improving overall capital efficiency across the system. The collaboration supports the full asset lifecycle, including corporate actions and reporting, ensuring operational continuity from issuance through settlement.
Stellar was selected in part for its compliance-oriented architecture, proven track record with institutional assets, transaction throughput, and low-cost operations — characteristics DTCC deemed essential for institutional-grade deployment at scale.
DTCC has framed this announcement as part of a broader, standards-driven multi-chain strategy, with ambitions to integrate multiple layer-1 and layer-2 networks to ensure interoperability and open access for all users of the DTC tokenization service. The organization brings over 50 years of clearing and settlement expertise to the initiative, positioning the collaboration as a credible and scalable foundation for the next generation of financial market infrastructure.
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