The SEC has proposed scrapping key Regulation NMS provisions, and analysts including Galaxy's Thorn argue this would effectively remove the regulatory barriers that have prevented decentralized automated market makers from trading tokenized US equities at scale. Current NMS rules impose order protection and routing requirements incompatible with on-chain AMM mechanics, so their removal would be a structural unlock for tokenized equity liquidity.
For Armada's crypto desk, deeper on-chain liquidity for tokenized equities would affect how collateral haircuts and liquidation assumptions are modeled for any such assets accepted as repo collateral in the future. More immediately, this development affects the broader on-chain collateral market that Armada's counterparties operate in, potentially increasing the range of assets family offices and hedge funds seek to repo against.