This week in Security Tokens 1/2019
🔥 Top 5 — Most important news of the week
- First Trade of Security Token by ATS with Custodial Service
Broker-dealer SharesPost announced its first secondary transaction with BCAP tokens issued by Blockchain Capital. SharesPost CEO John Wu stated:
“This was a small trade, it’s like a pilot program, we’re ‘running the water through the pipes’ to make sure,” he explained. “To our knowledge, this was the first trade of digital securities by an Alternative Trading System and broker dealer in which the ATS custodied the digital securities. This clears the path for companies to do compliant STO’s in the U.S. and provide their investors with secondary liquidity.”
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2. How to tokenize Apple, FB and Tesla Stocks
Estonian Exchange „DX.Exchange“ went live this Monday, offering Security Tokens representing shares of 10 Nasdaq-listed companies including Apple, Facebook and Tesla.
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3. tZERO hands its Security Tokens over to Investors
tZERO, a SEC-regulated exchange for digitized securities announced the next steps for their investors to take custody of tZERO`s Security Tokens. Basically they have two options choosing from, which is keeping the tokens in a brokerage account or on their personal wallet.
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4. EOS releases new Protocol for Security Tokens
The new protocol named „Financial Securities Protocol (FSP)“ is intended to enable the creation of Security Tokens on the EOS blockchain aiming to be the “blueprint for the Financial System 3.0.”
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5. Polymath builds Partnership with Leadbest to expand Token Ecosystem
Polymath is starting a partnership with Taiwanese company Leadbest, an issuance platform supporting projects with the tokenizsation process, fundraising and asset management. Together both companies are aiming to build a strong token investing ecosystem with LeadBest being Polymath’s main strategic partner in Asia.
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🖊️ Interview of the Week
tZERO: How to revolutionize Wall Street
With Saum Noursalehi — the CEO of tZERO, we talk about investor’s advantages to buy/sell digitized securities, how the transfer of Security Tokens actually works and where Saum sees the Security Token Ecosystem in 5 years.
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⏰ STO of the Week
Augmate - USA
Token Type - Dividend
Augmate is a blockchain enabled device management platform for IoT. More information you can find here.
💡 Knowledge of the Week
Tokenizing the World
Great podcast episode by Anthony Pompliano talking with Joshua Stein from Harbor about future of Finance — tokenizing real estate, stock, bond, currency, and commodity.
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