In short: Launched Nasdaq Texas in March; president Rachel Racz calls it "more a response to our clients than a competitor" and says it "allows companies to establish a listings presence in Texas while maintaining all of the benefits of their Nasdaq listing" — trades still run on East Coast wires. The contested part: around SpaceX's listing Nasdaq changed its rules to fast-track large stocks into the Nasdaq-100 after just 15 trading days ("and then all of a sudden, their exchange gets the listing," says Renta); Nasdaq says the program makes the index better reflect the market, and Racz says the decision predated SpaceX.
Nasdaq responded to the Texas push by opening its own Texas exchange in March. Its executives are careful to say almost nothing changes technically — the trades still run on East Coast systems — and that the venue simply lets a company plant a flag in Texas without giving up any benefit of its Nasdaq listing. Read commercially, it is a cheap defensive move to keep listings from wandering off to a new local competitor.
The awkward part is timing. Nasdaq loosened the rules for entering its flagship Nasdaq-100 index — a 15-trading-day fast track for very large stocks — right around the time it won SpaceX's listing. Nasdaq says the two are unrelated and that the change keeps the index representative of the market. Critics see an exchange competing for business by handing listings something valuable (automatic index-fund buying) sooner, with the risk landing on ordinary index investors. Neither view is settled here; the article simply lays out both.
In short: Cited as evidence that tokenization initiatives are under way at almost all the U.S. regulated exchanges: in March the SEC approved a Nasdaq proposal to let certain stocks trade and settle in token form through the DTCC. Also in the exchange-longevity table (formed 1971, listed 2002). No valuation view is offered on the shares.
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In short: Reference — cited (via Ferg/Horizon Kinetics) as the proof case for the exchange-operator thesis: NDAQ beat the NASDAQ 100 since its July-2002 listing (Haymaker notes the index is presently ahead, "a matter of timing"). Used to support BOLSY, not a fresh call.
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