Where The Value Is

Modernizing Global Capital Markets with Tokenization

ABE is building the core exchange, clearing, and custody rails for a $470B+ tokenization opportunity across trading, post‑trade, private markets, and compliance.

  • Over $470B in addressable revenue and cost savings across the capital markets stack

  • 23 concrete use cases across trading, post‑trade, private markets, and cross‑border flows

  • Built for regulated institutions: exchanges, brokers, asset managers, and custodians

Five Ways Tokenization Rewires Capital Markets

Tokenization is not one product; it is a horizontal upgrade to how securities are issued, traded, serviced, and settled. We group the opportunity into five value pools:

  1. Rewiring Trading & Issuance (~$120B TAM)
    Tokenization makes it cheaper and faster to bring products to market and to trade them globally. Think tokenized listings, programmable structured products, and fund wrappers that can be issued and distributed in days instead of months, with lower fees and 24/7 liquidity.

  2. Token‑Native Post‑Trade & Servicing (~$93B TAM)
    Post‑trade functions like custody, transfer agency, collateral management, and corporate actions can be embedded directly into the asset. A single golden‑source ledger replaces a web of reconciliations, intermediaries, and manual processes.

  3. Cost, Capital & Risk Benefits (~$195B TAM)
    Real‑time or near‑real‑time settlement collapses back‑office cost, shrinks margin and funding needs, and reduces operational and counterparty risk. Firms free up capital, lower their cost‑to‑serve, and simplify technology stacks.

  4. New Private Markets (~$49B TAM)
    Large private companies, private credit, and real estate can trade on modern rails with automated compliance and fractionalization. Employees, founders, and investors gain liquidity without a traditional IPO.

  5. Cross‑Border & Compliance Intelligence (~$11–20B TAM)
    When securities and cash are tokenized, cross‑border settlement, FX, and regulatory reporting can be handled by code. The result is natively global markets with machine‑readable compliance and audit embedded.