Tagged: tokenization

May 25, 2020 @ 4:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  We recently caught up with Jonah Schulman, the Head of Marketing at Security Token Market, a US-based company focused on a listing website for Security Token Offerings (STOs) from all over the world. The firm’s STO listings include basic information about the company and… Read More

May 12, 2020 @ 8:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A limited-edition “cassette tape” produced by Grammy award-winning DJ André Allen Anjos (aka RAC) has been tokenized and released on Zora, an Ethereum-powered digital marketplace. Zora’s developers first gained recognition last year, when they launched Saint Fame, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) that has developed… Read More

May 7, 2020 @ 8:37 am By JD Alois  |  

The GSX Group, the company that operates the Gibraltar Stock Exchange and the Global Blockchain Exchange, has announced the launch of “GRID,” a platform to create and deploy “Smart Securities” or tokenized assets. The GRID is said to facilitate the tokenization of new and existing… Read More

April 13, 2020 @ 7:40 am By JD Alois  |  

Equisafe and Lemon Way have formed a new partnership, according to a note from the companies. Lemon Way is a widely utilized payment platform. Lemon Way offers payment solutions for marketplaces providing a secure and regulated framework. Lemon Way obtained the Payment Institution license in… Read More

April 3, 2020 @ 12:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

Coinfield, a smaller crypto exchange operating out of Estonia, is working with Solegenic to “connect traditional financial markets with crypto assets,” according to a release. Sologenics, an entity that is affiliated with Coinfield, says it facilitates users with investing, trading, and on-demand tokenization of over… Read More

March 25, 2020 @ 2:20 pm By JD Alois  |  

A digital asset platform that tokenizes various investment offerings is crowdfunding on Seedrs. Smartlands, the first platform to tokenize a real estate offering in the UK, is looking to raise £400,003 at a pre-money valuation of £15.4 million representing a 2.53% stake in the firm…. Read More

March 24, 2020 @ 1:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

Firm24, a company that reportedly provides corporate services to 25,000 companies in the Benelux region, is looking to “tokenize” the shareholder registry via a partnership with Dusk Network and LTO Network (formerly LegalThings One). LTO Network is also a crypto that currently trades on Binance…. Read More

March 23, 2020 @ 4:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cred, a cryptocurrency-based lending and borrowing service, is teaming up with professional NBA basketball player and businessman Spencer Dinwiddie. A special web page and service was launched on March 20, 2020 for Dinwiddie’s fans who may use the Cred platform. Cred allows users to earn… Read More

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