DeFi & Tokenized Bonds

Is it ever possible to merge the worlds of traditional and decentralized finance? Is it possible to use instruments like bonds within opensource, transparent and decentralized environments? Let’s see this experiment

The gap between DeFi and traditional finance is getting thinner and thinner in the last months. While on the one hand we have the development of decentralized protocols open to anyone, on the other hand we have the use of financial instruments such as stocks and bonds in regulated markets. How can these two realities ever interface?

Societé Generale is currently the seventh largest investment bank in the Eurozone. In 2018 it creates Forge, a company that provides issuers and investors with innovative services to issue and manage digital financial products registered on blockchain. In 2020, secured bonds worth €40 million are tokenized for the first time through the issuance of security tokens in the Ethereum Blockchain.

Specifically, the OFH tokens issued have 0% fixed rate, maturity in 2025 and AAA rating. A few days ago it was…