Tagged: tokenization

February 14, 2020 @ 10:17 am By JD Alois  |  

Smartlands, a blockchain based Fintech that lays claim to tokenizing the first real estate offering in the UK, says it will revise and expand its legal framework by basing future projects on Lichtenstein law. Lichtenstein has created digital asset friendly regulation as it attempts to… Read More

February 4, 2020 @ 8:46 am By JD Alois  |  

Security Tokens and Real Estate. Recently the University of Oxford published a paper on digital assets and real estate. Entitled, “Tokenization: the Future of Real Estate Investment?“, the document believes there is potential in tokenizing the popular asset class but also sees certain challenges. For… Read More

January 12, 2020 @ 9:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Professional NBA basketball player Spencer Dinwiddie, who plays for the Brooklyn Nets, recently noted that his DLT-enabled tokenized investment vehicle will be officially introduced on January 13, 2020. This, despite the NBA’s warning that it might ban him from the US and Canada-based professional basketball… Read More

December 30, 2019 @ 2:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

Brazil’s Piemonte Holding says it is the first secondary market place in the country to facilitate trading in a tokenized bond offering. According to a release, a R$ 66m (USD $ 16.2 million) private bond issuance, Piemonte “Smart Bond,” is leveraging Globex US Holdings, Corp… Read More

December 2, 2019 @ 4:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Crypto Valley Association (CVA), a Switzerland based blockchain advocacy group, has published an “Asset Tokenization Paper” at the inaugural launch event for its Western Chapter today taking place at the EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. The CVA seeks to define the… Read More

October 31, 2019 @ 1:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Carbon exchange AirCarbon has announced the launch of a globally accessible tokenized carbon credits trading platform. The Singapore-based platform will allow airline companies to purchase and sell tokens that represent Eligible Emission Units (EEUs) or carbon offset credits. The platform’s services were recently approved by… Read More

October 1, 2019 @ 11:00 am By JD Alois  |  

KPMG has published a brief report on blockchain and tokenization. According to the authors, tokenization will be huge and the tech is “poised to transform commerce.” KPMG explains: “digital tokens issued on blockchains are used to represent asset ownership and to efficiently facilitate asset exchange…. Read More

September 12, 2019 @ 1:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Spanish multinational commercial bank Santander has reportedly become the first financial institution to handle all aspects of a bond issuance process on a blockchain-based platform. The world’s ninth-largest financial services company used an ERC-20 compliant token to represent $20 million in issued debt, and settled… Read More

September 12, 2019 @ 8:59 am By JD Alois  |  

tZERO, a subsidiary of Overstock (NASDAQ:OSTK) has formed a partnership with Bloq Flix, LLC, to tokenize films, according to a release. Bloq Flix claims to be the “first blockchain entertainment financing company.” tZERO said that Bloq Flix will utilize its tokenization protocol technology to tokenize… Read More

August 30, 2019 @ 2:48 pm By Michael B. Saryan and Charles S. Kaufman  |  

Each year, billions of dollars in direct foreign investment flow to U.S. developers and entrepreneurs under the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program. The program gives foreign investors the opportunity to obtain permanent U.S. residency – a green card – if they make a qualifying investment in… Read More

July 21, 2019 @ 4:00 pm By Kirill Bensonoff  |  

    If an individual is interested in taking on investing, jumping directly into the stock market can be difficult, due to intimidation and the high required minimums. The initial perception floating around the industry is that in order to reap any benefits from investing,… Read More

May 30, 2019 @ 9:29 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Peer-to-peer lending platform Crowd For Angels announced last week it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Australian tokenization platform, myStake. Crowd for Angels reported that myStake is described as an end-to-end share tokenization, registry, and investor relations platform that provides company shareholders transparency,… Read More

October 25, 2018 @ 11:50 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Tokeny, a tokenization platform, has partnered with Blocktrade.com, a trading facility for Crypto Assets, Crypto Traded Indices and other blockchain related financial instruments. Last month, Neufund, Europe’s first security token issuance platform, partnered with Liechtenstein-based Blocktrade to provide additional liquidity in security tokens. Tokeny CEO Luc Falempin explained… Read More