{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"A2Z Fintech","title":"Your Broker Has 18 Months | The Week Finance Changed","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":810,"description":"In the age of AI, stock trading is still writing cheques. \nThat changed this week.\nOn March 9, 2026, Nasdaq partnered with crypto exchange Kraken \nto build the Equities Transformation Gateway — tokenized \nequities trading 24/7, settling in seconds, instant, fractional, \nand always on. Four days earlier, NYSE's parent Intercontinental \nExchange invested in OKX at a $25 billion valuation with the \nsame intent.\nTwo of the most powerful financial exchanges on earth. Same week. \nSame bet. That is not a trend. That is a verdict.\nIn this episode, Aman breaks down:\n→ Why the stock market is the last analogue institution in a \n  digital world\n→ Why the ASX's $250M blockchain project failed in 2022 — and \n  why Nasdaq's approach won't repeat it\n→ How this is structurally different from Robinhood fractional \n  shares\n→ Why Kraken's Federal Reserve master account changes everything\n→ Stablecoins, the GENIUS Act, and the hidden infrastructure \n  layer beneath it all\n→ Three things to watch before mid-2027 — and why financial \n  journalists are missing the bigger story\nThis is a solo episode. Co-host Zubin Vandrevala is in New \nZealand. He couldn't wait.\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📖 COMPANION BLOG\nA Man Who Blogs #32 — Chains, Clocks & Capital\n[SUBSTACK URL]\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/7Qyf0xWmHeg7LEUFCI-k-jpWOtyK3SxMMPFnu7Noa5M/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84ODdh/NDVjNDFmYzZiMzFj/OWY5MzM3YjExNDAw/YTQ4NC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}