Old giants like BNY Mellon, instead of rushing to issue tokens or jumping on the Web3 bandwagon, quietly did something more practical: directly moving bank account funds onto the blockchain.
A quick background: BNY Mellon is one of the world's largest custodian banks. Although retail investors may not have heard of it, exchanges, funds, and clearing systems almost all rely on it.
This isn't about stablecoins or transforming the banking system. Your money still stays with BNY, with regulation, interest, and account permissions unchanged—it's just the last mile—transfers, clearing, collateralization—that starts running on the chain.
Why? The pain points for institutions are quite real:
Waiting in line to add margin; cross-system settlement is inherently slow; and operations halt during weekends or night trading. The advantage of blockchain is simple: 24/7.
Just look at who’s using it, and you'll see this isn’t a toy:
ICE (the group behind the NYSE), Citadel, DRW—top high-frequency and market-making firms—and players like Circle, Ripple, Galaxy—deeply involved in blockchain. This isn’t just a proof of concept for show; it’s infrastructure prepared for truly large-volume transactions.
There’s a particularly interesting technical detail: these on-chain deposits are programmable.
What does that mean? When conditions are met, money automatically transfers; debts are settled, and collateral is automatically returned. The entire logic runs without human oversight, system self-operating.
After all this, the big picture is becoming clear:
This isn’t about banks fighting blockchain; it’s about traditional finance starting to directly reuse the foundational tools of cryptography, dismantling and rebuilding those slow, complex, and easily stuck processes.
What do you call this? Integration.
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CryptoHistoryClass
· 01-12 03:34
lol wait, so BNY's literally just... doing what we've been asking for since 2011? programmable money on rails, no drama, just infrastructure... history repeating itself fr fr
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TxFailed
· 01-11 22:36
nah this is actually the move nobody saw coming. institutions finally realized they don't need to fight the chain, just... use it. programmable deposits hitting different when you're managing billions tbh
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RugResistant
· 01-11 18:45
analyzed thoroughly but hold up—programmable deposits sound clean on paper, needs deeper audit on the smart contract layer tbh. red flags detected if they're not publishing full implementation details.
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IfIWereOnChain
· 01-10 22:41
Damn, this is the real deal, not something those noisy projects can compare to.
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CryptoCrazyGF
· 01-10 06:40
Oh wow, this is the real gameplay. Not issuing tokens actually leads to big wins.
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ForkTongue
· 01-10 06:38
Here we go again, the old banks are playing with blockchain. This time, instead of bragging, they're actually getting things done and doing it quite well.
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MidsommarWallet
· 01-10 06:37
Oh wow, this is the real deal, not those tricks of issuing tokens to scam investors.
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just_vibin_onchain
· 01-10 06:36
Really, this is the way the big players operate—no show-off, no hype, just get things done.
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QuorumVoter
· 01-10 06:33
Wait, ICE and Citadel are both using it? This is no longer just a proof of concept.
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GasFeeCrier
· 01-10 06:13
Wow, BNY really got it this time. No hype, just getting things done directly.
#美国非农就业数据未达市场预期 This is quite interesting.
Old giants like BNY Mellon, instead of rushing to issue tokens or jumping on the Web3 bandwagon, quietly did something more practical: directly moving bank account funds onto the blockchain.
A quick background: BNY Mellon is one of the world's largest custodian banks. Although retail investors may not have heard of it, exchanges, funds, and clearing systems almost all rely on it.
This isn't about stablecoins or transforming the banking system. Your money still stays with BNY, with regulation, interest, and account permissions unchanged—it's just the last mile—transfers, clearing, collateralization—that starts running on the chain.
Why? The pain points for institutions are quite real:
Waiting in line to add margin; cross-system settlement is inherently slow; and operations halt during weekends or night trading. The advantage of blockchain is simple: 24/7.
Just look at who’s using it, and you'll see this isn’t a toy:
ICE (the group behind the NYSE), Citadel, DRW—top high-frequency and market-making firms—and players like Circle, Ripple, Galaxy—deeply involved in blockchain. This isn’t just a proof of concept for show; it’s infrastructure prepared for truly large-volume transactions.
There’s a particularly interesting technical detail: these on-chain deposits are programmable.
What does that mean? When conditions are met, money automatically transfers; debts are settled, and collateral is automatically returned. The entire logic runs without human oversight, system self-operating.
After all this, the big picture is becoming clear:
This isn’t about banks fighting blockchain; it’s about traditional finance starting to directly reuse the foundational tools of cryptography, dismantling and rebuilding those slow, complex, and easily stuck processes.
What do you call this? Integration.