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Trending Tokenization Series in 2019: tZERO Lines Up In Tokenized Trading Expedition

Despite the downturn in the cryptocurrencies that’s been observed in the past year, and may have caused apprehensions for aspirant cryptocurrency investor, but we kept reiterating about series of constructive news flows on the contrary, such as, ‘lingering optimism of ETFs approval, OTC trading facility, while tokenization mechanism has also been a buzz world’, all these numerous news have been quite distinctive among the crypto-space.

We brief this method, where users on a distributed network such as a blockchain can tokenize assets and trade these virtual depository receipts. With these live pieces of evidence of growing interest in tokenization of trading or investing, one can understand that this has become a trending topic of 2019. The phenomenon of "tokenization" has been transforming financial assets into digital tokens contemporarily in the real world. Through which one can buy and sell blue-chip company shares, like, Apple, Facebook etc.

We’ve already reported Nasdaq’s initiatives in tokenization business in our recent posts. Symbiont, a blockchain technology company, raised by a round of funding about $20 million that has been led by Nasdaq.

The company, who is in the business of developing distributed ledgers and smart contracts for the capital markets’ operations. The two companies have partnered to bring compliant security tokens to the United States. That is how Nasdaq is intending to access the gamut of blockchain driven-securities. While XBT Provider unveiled an Ethereum ETNs on Nasdaq in Stockholm.

Nasdaq is, also in collaboration with Overstock, to develop security token platforms, they have unveiled tZERO, that is onboard with some features intending to become the first US regulated exchange to issue and trade security tokens on the blockchain.

Security Tokens that resembles the conventional financial instruments, like, shares, debentures or units in a collective investment scheme. They are identified to be scrutinized by the regulatory perimeter of the FCA as their classification meets the definition of “specified investments” per the state’s Regulated Activities Order and/or “Financial Instruments” regulated by the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II. tZERO intends to primarily transform conventional capital markets and truly address the inherent inefficiencies of Wall Street so that financial processes.

Currency Strength Index: FxWirePro's hourly BTC is at -140 (bearish), while USD is inching at -110 (which is bearish), at press time 12:34 GMT. 

For more details on the index, please refer below weblink: http://www.fxwirepro.com/currencyindex

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