Financial Ledgers for the Tokenized Economy: Why Core Banking Needs a Blockchain Upgrade

With JPMorgan processing $1.5 trillion through its blockchain platform and US Tokenized Treasuries reaching $9 billion (with 2,3 billion solely from BlackRock’s tokenized Treasury fund - BUIDL) 

the question for banking is no longer    if   they should tokenize…

…but how quickly.

All of that supports the statement that tokenization of financial assets has reached a definitive inflection point. 

Yet, while the market accelerates toward a projected 16-30 trillion $ in tokenized assets by 2030 (estimates of Boston Consulting Group vs Standard Chartered’s), many financial institutions remain rooted to infrastructure designed for a different era. 

Legacy core banking systems—often running on code bases dating back to the 1970s— according to IBM, consumes up to 70% of a bank's IT budget, just to keep the lights on, leaving little room for genuine innovation.

The friction in today’s financial system isn't just a nuisance; it is an operational drain. 

Traditional batch-processing systems are fundamentally incompatible with 24/7 digital asset markets and atomic settlements.

Institutions attempting to bridge this gap often find themselves in a "high-cost, high-risk maze," having to face:

• Spiraling Integration Costs: Engineering resources are wasted on "plumbing" rather than product innovation.
• Reconciliation Hell: Managing separate ledgers for fiat and crypto creates endless manual work and systemic risk.
• Missed Opportunities: Inability to support real-time, programmable payments means losing ground to digitally native competitors.

The solution is not to slap a crypto sidecar onto a legacy core but instead to have a DLT-native stack that handles both fiat and digital assets as first-class citizens.

Integrating blockchain-based rails offers quantifiable operational advantages:

• Single Source of Truth: A unified ledger provides real-time, auditable, double-entry bookkeeping for all assets. This eliminates the need for complex reconciliation between disparate systems.
• Atomic Settlement: Move from T+2 settlement cycles to instant, irreversible transfers. Implementations have shown a 90% reduction in reconciliation errors and significant decreases in settlement network failures.
• Capital Efficiency: By reducing clearing fund requirements and accelerating settlement, institutions can free up billions in capital currently trapped in operational friction.

At Neti, we aim to empower financial institutions to move value on-chain—securely, compliantly, and without disrupting existing systems.

Our Neti Stable Suite serves as a comprehensive Digital Financial Stack, designed to solve the integration complexities through a modular, end-to-end platform that includes:

1. Unified Ledgering: Seamlessly integrate fiat and crypto rails, from core ledgering to on-chain analytics, under one roof.
2. Compliance by Design: We embed regulatory checks into every transaction. With integrated KYC/KYT/AML and Travel Rule compliance, 
3. Modular Scalability: Start with the components you need today—such as stablecoin payments and institutional-grade custody—and go beyond with advanced modules like asset tokenization or programmable payments as you scale.

Build Your Future on a Proven Foundation

The transition to DLT-native finance is not just about technology; it's about future-proofing your business model. 

Whether it's enabling 24/7 programmable payments for corporate treasury clients or offering tokenized real-world assets to investors, the infrastructure you choose today will define your competitive edge tomorrow.

Ready to accelerate your digital asset strategy? Partner with Neti to build your unique value proposition on a secure, compliant, and future-proof foundation.

👉 Let’s map your use case in a strategic discovery session.