Alan Greenspan passed away today, leaving behind a legacy that helped shape modern financial markets and lessons that remain relevant as we build the next generation of finance. His career reminds us that markets are never static. Technology evolves, access expands, and financial infrastructure must continuously adapt to serve a growing and increasingly interconnected world. Three lessons stand out: Innovation will always move faster than institutions. The challenge is not stopping progress but creating rules that allow innovation to develop responsibly. Expanding access matters. The strongest financial systems are those that give more people the ability to save, invest, and participate in economic growth. Trust creates liquidity. Markets only scale when participants have confidence in the rules, institutions, and infrastructure that support them. As we enter an era of tokenized assets, digital finance, and 24/7 markets, these lessons remain as important as ever. The future of finance will not be built by technology alone. It will be built by combining innovation with trust, access, and sound market structure. Markets won’t wait. They never have. The responsibility of our generation is to build the next era of finance faster, more accessible, and more transparent than the one we inherited.