Figure and its partners have already originated over $30 Billion of loans through a blockchain-native capital-markets stack. BIS argues why this matters since tokenization can collapse messaging, reconciliation and settlement into one operation, replacing multiple ledgers and hand-offs with a single programmable asset record. Dow Protocol applies that architecture to commerce credit with ownership, repayment waterfalls and risk triggers are defined at origination, not reconciled after the fact. The important point is not that blockchain eliminates credit risk, but that live underwriting plus pre-programmed cash-flow control leaves fewer places for risk to hide.