Wall Street Wants the Upside, Not the Tech

Writing for CoinDesk, Altius CEO Annabelle Huang argues that Wall Street has embraced digital assets as an asset class but still trades almost entirely off-chain, because current blockchains can't match the speed, settlement reliability, and operational resilience institutions depend on. She lays out the specific performance gaps holding order flow back, and the upgrades, from instruction-level parallelism to published benchmarks on hardware, that would bring blockchains up to institutional standards.

This opinion piece by Annabelle Huang was first published by CoinDesk.

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https://www.coindesk.com/opinion/2025/11/04/wall-street-is-bought-in-on-crypto-s-upside-potential-but-not-its-tech