The issuance of third party assets on “the blockchain” is an idea almost as old as Bitcoin itself. For years I have been intrigued by this concept and have researched and participated in the implementation of protocols (colored coins, pay-to-contract (BIP 175), sidechains and MainStay) that are building blocks for the realisation of this vision. […]
From a regulatory perspective, the barriers to rapid and relatively painless deployment of security tokens to anyone but professional investors and high-net-worth individuals seems to be lower in Europe than in, for example, the United States. In the U.S., investing in security tokens is in practice a no-go for smaller, non-accredited retail investors. In Europe, […]
– an interview with Rune Christensen, Founder & CEO of Maker Tokenizing both tangible real-world assets and already-digitized securities is expected to have great potential. This is what Rune Christensen, founder & CEO of Maker, calls the first-generation tokenization. But there is a new generation of tokenization just around the corner, where security tokens serve […]
