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Robert Anderson used nonstandard analysis to generate Brownian motion from a finite random walk obtained from coin tosses, where "finite" means indexed by an infinite, non-standard natural number. The corresponding random walk has bounded variation under a non-standard bound. One can then do everything in terms such an random walk, as has been done without rigorous justification before. The Itô-integral can be obtained from a Stiltjes-integral on the random walk, they differ only by an infinitesimal. An outline of the arguments can be found here. For the details, see:

MR0464380 (57 #4311) Anderson, Robert M. A non-standard representation for Brownian motion and Itô integration. Israel J. Math. 25 (1976), no. 1-2, 15--46.