SEC Chair Atkins Says Agency Advancing 24-Hour US Stock Trading, Cites Tokenization

The significance here is less the round-the-clock session itself than the regulator naming tokenization as a settlement-efficiency tool — a shift from crypto-adjacent rhetoric to plumbing-level justification. That framing matters most to market infrastructure providers and clearing participants, who bear the operational risk of overnight price bands and SIP publication. Whether tokenized inventory management moves from Atkins's remarks into concrete industry pilots is the open question to watch.