Key Takeaways
- Two Morgan Stanley executives say blockchain-based markets are making the batch-processing banking model outdated.
- Tokenized real-world assets tripled year over year to roughly $36.7 billion.
- More than half the tokenized market by value records no weekly transfers.
- Instant payment rails already deliver 24/7 clearing without blockchain.
- Cross-border legal finality remains the unresolved problem.
“This is the end of banker hours. Your batch processing mentality is going to be a thing of the past,” Graseck said, according to CoinDesk’s report on the discussion.
Two executives on a panel represent two views rather than an institutional position, and the transformation they describe has been arriving for roughly a decade. The numbers underneath it tell a more complicated story than the quote suggests.


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