In November 2018, to the excitement of many in the crypto industry, the first ever security token exchange, OpenFinance Network, launched by publicly listing two of the earliest security tokens: Blockchain Capital (BCAP) and SpiceVC. By Marc Weinstein This event along with a few others, like a highly anticipated real estate offering launched by VC-backed Harbor, […]
The apparently quite witty professor of Computer Science, Andrew Tanenbaum, once said: “The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from.” Nevertheless, trying to agree on standards is the only way forward in many cases. And an excellent example of token standards which was widely accepted very quickly was the […]
– an interview with Harbor CEO Josh Stein, PART 1 Although The Tokenizer focuses primarily on the European market, it is evident that the US has played an important role in the development of the still-immature tokenization and security tokens industry. A few US companies can rightly take the credit for being the first in […]