How to Build a Platform for Institutional Digital Assets

Today, cryptocurrencies dominate the digital assets (DA) space. This is likely to change as more digital securities emerge.

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Today, cryptocurrencies dominate the digital assets (DA) space. This is likely to change as more digital securities emerge.

The advantages of digital securities are manifold; some of the key benefits include more efficient transactions, easier asset servicing, and increased asset transparency through data natively embedded in the tokens. However, digital securities – in particular non-crypto digital assets – face a starting problem. For digital securities, there is no institutional regulated infrastructure, no institutional liquidity, with a scarcity of issued digital assets in circulation.

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How to Build a Platform for Institutional Digital Assets

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