Still think that cryptocurrency and traditional stocks and bonds are two separate worlds? Maybe it's time to reconsider that judgment.

Dusk, a public chain focused on compliance and privacy, recently made a pretty shocking move—officially partnering with NPEX, a licensed securities exchange in the Netherlands, to jointly create Europe's first truly on-chain securities trading platform. In simple terms, the stocks, bonds, and other financial assets issued and traded on NPEX in the future will be built on Dusk's blockchain technology. This is not a small-scale pilot project; it’s using blockchain to directly give traditional licensed exchanges a brand new "engine."

What does this mean for retail investors? The investment barrier drops dramatically. Want to buy a priceless Van Gogh oil painting? Or that old building with a story on the Amsterdam canal? In the past, only the wealthy could own such assets. Now, with this platform, these high-value assets can be "fragmented" into thousands of shares, and you can hold one or more with just a few hundred euros. Supported by Dusk technology, once real-world assets (RWA) are tokenized, what you get is not just a virtual certificate but legally recognized shared ownership, allowing you to share in appreciation gains and rental income.

Another change is trading efficiency. On-chain transaction settlement is lightning-fast—shrinking from traditional days of waiting to just seconds. When you click the "sell" button, the corresponding assets or stablecoins almost instantly arrive in your wallet, making liquidity experience completely different from traditional markets. The underlying logic is simple: blockchain was created to eliminate intermediaries and accelerate settlement.