Aptos joins Solana and Ethereum in Bullish’s tokenized stock plan

Digital asset firm Bullish has announced plans to expand its equity tokenization services to the Aptos and Ethereum blockchains, joining its existing integration with Solana. This initiative aims to modernize traditional stock trading by enabling near-instant settlement, 24/7 market access, and automated corporate actions like dividend distributions. By leveraging public blockchains, Bullish intends to provide issuers with greater flexibility in where their tokenized shares reside while maintaining official ownership records through its transfer agent, Equiniti. Aptos is positioning itself as a key institutional player, citing its sub-second transaction finality and low costs as primary drivers for adoption. The network already hosts tokenized funds from major asset managers such as Franklin Templeton and Apollo. Furthermore, Aptos has implemented privacy-focused features like confidential transactions and an encrypted mempool to meet institutional security requirements. This development underscores a broader industry shift toward utilizing high-performance layer-1 networks to bridge the gap between legacy financial infrastructure and decentralized ledger technology.