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A Quick Look at The Provenance Blockchain

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The developers behind the Provenance blockchain concept seek to create an integrated ecosystem for the tokenization and trading of digital assets. Particularly, security tokens. The goal of the project is to improve the speed and transparency of these transactions. Additionally, developers seek to introduce new product opportunities to the market.

The San Francisco-based tokenization platform, Provenance allows issuers of tokenized securities, while allowing fund managers and investors to share a common blockchain ledger, registry, and exchange. This strategy streamlines a number of critical steps in the investment process.

Shared ledgers provide a more seamless experience during investor onboarding. Also, the new system allows for the use of a transfer agent and other registrar services corporations may require during the creation and trading of tokenized securities. Importantly, the system provides significant cost savings. These savings are made possible because the Provenance blockchain reduces the amount of staffing and third-party costs associated with traditional securities transactions.

Provenance Blockchain

Provenance can be categorized as a distributed stakeholder blockchain. In other words, the platform is public but utilizes numerous levels of permissioned access. In this manner, Provenance incorporates all the advantages of a blockchain system. The platform features a distributed, trustless and immutable ecosystem to facilitate trading and issuing of digital assets. Notably, the ledger, registry, and exchange are the parts of the system that are permissioned.

A Different Type of Tokenization

Provenance differs from most tokenization systems in many ways. Firstly, the platform supports the actual ownership of an asset rather than a secondary “wrapper” enabling fractional ownership. Also, assets that originate on the Provenance blockchain are native to the platform.

Provenance improves the efficiency of the current stack of depository trusts, beneficial owners, custodians, transfer agents, etc. involved in the ownership of securities using this unique strategy.

Transaction Validation

As a semi-public blockchain Provenance utilizes 12 financial firms to validate transactions. These transactions allow for immediate, riskless, and bilateral trading of digital assets within the ecosystem. Additionally, this protocol allows Provenance to provide an on-ramp into the sector via these banks which function as a fiat bridge.

Professional Financial Services – Provenance Blockchain

Provenance's developers wanted to provide investment managers with a more robust and easy to monitor system. In this way, the platform can improve the use of operating funds. Additionally, the protocol reduces the overall costs fund managers incur and improves the investor experience significantly.

Provenance Investor Passport

The provenance platform incorporates a new system known as the investor passport. This system simplifies and reduces the cost of validating investors. Investors AML/KYC data stores securely on the blockchain. Specifically, this strategy if effective in terms of speeding up investor onboarding.

Additionally, Provenance users enjoy access to the advanced registrar. This feature can help with managing the entire lifecycle of a digital asset. Here businesses can track important data such as subscriptions, redemptions, cap tables, and investor communications.

Provenance Initiates

Provenance entered the market with the goal to build an integrated and intelligent platform specifically designed to simplify and improve the issuance, tracking, and trading of securities. To date, the firm participated in the issuance, financing, trading, and securitization of over $700 million in tokenized assets. As such, you can expect to see this platform expand in accordance with the growing adoption of tokenized assets moving forward.

David Hamilton is a full-time journalist and a long-time bitcoinist. He specializes in writing articles on the blockchain. His articles have been published in multiple bitcoin publications including Bitcoinlightning.com

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