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View More NewsSecuritize and Cantor Fitzgerald have partnered to support blockchain-based initial public offerings (IPOs) and follow-on equity offerings for listed companies, a move that could further expand the use of tokenized securities in traditional capital markets.The companies said Wednesday that they are developing a framework for primary issuances that would allow companies to raise capital through tokenized securities while remaining within the existing regulatory framework for public offerings. The framework would support both IPOs and follow-on, or secondary, offerings, in which already public companies issue additional shares to raise capital.Under the agreement, Securitize will provide the tokenization infrastructure used to issue,…
In Utah, which passed State-Endorsed Digital Identity (SEDI) legislation, Cardano Foundation-built Veridian has already shown that digital identity can be delivered in a privacy-preserving way, allowing users to prove that they are over or under a specific age without exposing any other data. It’s a working model of what responsible verification can look like and shows trust does not require unnecessary disclosure. Privacy can be designed into the system from the start.That is the standard bills like KIDS or KOSA should favor.If the goal is to protect children, the tools should be narrow, purposeful, and minimally invasive. Broad mandates that…
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Four years ago, a colleague asked me whether I could chair a debate with some guy called ‘Gary Stevenson’, who was, apparently, an anti-inequality campaigner and a YouTube commentator of some description. I had never heard of Stevenson, but accepted. The debate went all right, even though it was mostly a case of talking past each other (which, given that I was the moderator, was probably my fault). It was otherwise not especially memorable. Britain does not exactly have a shortage of left-wing media figures and activists. In the first half of the 2010s, there was the campaign for a…
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Putting real-world investments onchain, a process called tokenization, is moving out of the testing phase and into everyday business.Citi’s new report Tokenization 2030: Wall…
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