The word ‘platform’ undersells what institutional-grade tokenized infrastructure actually needs to do, and the industry’s loose use of ‘platform’ and ‘network’ interchangeably has made it harder for institutional buyers to...
India is taking an important step in the evolution of its financial markets. In September, state-owned power-sector financier REC Limited is expected to issue India’s first tokenized corporate bond. The pilot is being developed alongside the Reserve Bank of India and...
Executive TL;DR Blockchain networks (Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche, Solana, etc.) are siloed — a tokenized asset on one chain is stranded from liquidity on every other chain without cross-chain infrastructure Institutional investors often operate across multiple...
A token standard is a technical specification that defines how a digital asset behaves: how it is created, transferred, held, and what events it responds to. For regulated tokenized securities, the choice of token standard is not a minor technical decision — it...
Every tokenized financial instrument is governed by smart contract code. The compliance enforcement, income distribution, transfer restrictions, lifecycle events, and governance functions that make a tokenized security behave as a regulated financial instrument are...
The blockchain’s defining property — a public, transparent, immutable ledger — is simultaneously its greatest strength for trust and its greatest weakness for institutional adoption. An insurance company managing a $100 billion fixed income portfolio cannot...
