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Stockholder registry video demo

If you want to sell stock in an international blockchain market, you will need to keep track of your shareholders, so that you can comply with corporate registry requirements, and provide good investor relations. You will need a stockholder registry.

Security Smackdown: Art versus Real Estate Fund

Taming the terror of token loss

Securities need to be handled differently from cryptocurrencies. We need to be able to replace lost securities.

Cryptocurrency transactions cannot be repudiated. This causes security problems, technical risk, and loss. The security problem comes…

Four types of digital assets

The four categories of crypto tokens or “digital assets” are open source cryptocurrencies, ICO coins, Reg D compliant initial offerings, and tradable securities. If you are considering issuing your own assets, or handling existing assets, you should understand where they fit in…

Is trading bad for entrepreneurs?

As we build out the market for tokenized securities, we are rushing to create more effective ways to trade private securities. Is this a good idea? Liquidity is always good for investors. They gain an option to cash out. However, liquidity can be bad for issuers. Small…

The dual-token ICO is legal even in the US

Sometimes, you really need a utility coin. You want to use it for payments between machines. You want to exchange it freely. You want to distribute it as an incentive to customers and compute providers. And, you want to do this globally, in a way that…

SAFT is dead. Long live SAFTER

Over the past six months, SAFTs have become a popular way to help ICO issuers comply with securities laws. However, SAFTs are now obsolete. They should be replaced by similar securities that more cleanly separate the security from the utility token, and give issuers and…