Wall Street will run entirely on the blockchain by 2030, says Brickken CEO

FinanceShareShare this articleCopy linkX iconX (Twitter)LinkedInFacebookEmailWall Street will run entirely on the blockchain by 2030, says Brickken CEOEdwin Mata argues that EU regulations are choking local startups, leaving the U.S. and automated AI tools to run the future of tokenized finance.By Olivier Acuna|Edited by Jamie Crawley Jun 9, 2026, 12:08 p.m. 2 min readMake preferred on What to know: Edwin Mata, CEO and founder of tokenization platform Brickken, projects that Wall Street will run entirely on blockchain technology by 2030.Mata also warned that Europe is over-regulating itself out of the race.Mata predicts that traditional software dashboards will soon be replaced by simple chat prompts, where AI agents handle the backend work of finding the best financial yields.The line between traditional finance (TradFi) and crypto is disappearing, with tokenization consistently a dominant narrative of the digital asset industry for a number of years.Edwin Mata, CEO and founder of tokenization platform Brickken, projects that Wall Street will run entirely on blockchain technology by 2030. Mata told CoinDesk that tech industry buzzwords like "Web3" are fading as major banks adopt the technology for standard financial plumbing, such as settlements and payments."The merge between Wall Street and technology is going to dissipate," Mata said in an interview. "We're not going to talk anymore about blockchain. It's merging into fintech."While institutional interest in tokenizing real-world assets is growing, driven by major moves like BlackRock’s BUIDL fund, Mata warned that Europe is over-regulating itself out of the race.This push toward blockchain-native infrastructure was highlighted by Bullish’s (BLSH) $4.2 billion acquisition of transfer agent Equiniti. The deal targets corporate shareholder recordkeeping to ensure shares are issued and recorded directly on-chain from the start, rather than using synthetic digital "wrappers." Bullish is also the parent company of…

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