Robinhood and Ondo at Consensus Miami: Wall Street has moved from 'what is blockchain?' to 'how do we build on it?'

Executives from Ondo Finance, Bitstamp (owned by Robinhood) and Babylon Labs told the Consensus Miami 2026 panel that the question banks are asking has fundamentally changed. "We're not having conversations anymore about what blockchain is," said Robinhood's Nicola White. "Now it's about, how do we help them build?"

Ondo President Ian De Bode pointed to live partnerships with Broadridge and the DTCC as evidence the shift is real — tokenizing securities and enabling blockchain-based shareholder voting. He also highlighted Ondo's tokenized treasury products, which let investors mint and redeem positions over weekends while earning daily yield, a capability traditional money markets still can't match.

Panelists were candid about the constraints: legacy infrastructure and regulatory ambiguity are slowing the pace. The emerging picture is two parallel tracks — tightly regulated domestic…