The national stock exchange of the Seychelles is today launching the world's first IPO of tokenized shares, utilizing the ethereum blockchain.
Seychelles' stock exchange has just listed a tokenized security representing its own equity in an apparent world first.
Belarus-based exchange Currency.com has left beta mode to offer trading and investment in 1,000 tokenized securities.
The Gibraltar Stock Exchange is allowing financial firms to list blockchain-based securities on its GSX Global Market platform.
Inveniam Capital Partners is soon to offer tokenized securities representing $260 million-worth of shares in four properties.
“STO” was coined to distinguish a compliant token offering from ICOs, but the term fails to capture all the types of security tokens.
Switzerland's top stock exchange, SIX, aims to roll out a blockchain platform to speed up trading later this year.
Security tokens and tokenized securities are not the same thing – it's important that we recognize the difference, argues Noelle Acheson.