Security Token News
Ben Franklin Gives Access to ‘Go Philly Fund’ with the Help of Securitize
Ben Franklin is a capital provider with over three decades of experience in the Philadelphia area. This accomplished organization has recognized the benefits of blockchain, and has now announced a collaboration with industry leader, Securitize.
Onboarding Platform
Through this collaboration, Ben Franklin will be utilizing services rendered by Securitize to host a digital security offering. This offering will see the distribution of tokens, to qualifying investors, which represent participation the ‘Go Philly Fund’.
These tokens, to be issued on the Ethereum blockchain, are known as ‘Go Philly Tokens’, and are actively for sale HERE.
Global Opportunity Philadelphia Fund (Go Philly Fund)
The ‘Go Philly Fund’ is a program that will utilize blockchain technologies to raise and distribute capital, to seed stage companies within the Philadelphia area. These funds are gathered through the aforementioned DSO, and distributed to promising start-ups, curated by Ben Franklin.
This process allows for investors to gain exposure to various companies and the emerging technologies they delve in. With blockchain facilitating the process, investors are also privy to high levels of transparency and efficiency.
Commentary
In their press release, the Chief Investment Officer of Ben Franklin, Scott Nissenbaum, took the time to comment on usage of blockchain. The following is what he had to say.
“The GO Philly Fund intends to utilize rapidly emerging standard technologies to streamline and manage investor interests in the fund…Through the use of blockchain technology, we are now facilitating and streamlining individual investor participation from around the globe while allowing for cryptocurrency to be accepted.”
Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania
Ben Franklin in a United Stated based capital provider. Founded in 1982, Ben Franklin specializes in providing capital to upstarts, which are still within their seed stage.
With a focus on the greater Philadelphia area, Ben Franklin has funded over 2000 companies since its launch. This level of activity has resulted in Ben Franklin being ranked as a top capital provider within the United States.
Securitize
Securitize is a United States based company, which was founded in 2017. Under the watch of founder, Carlos Domingo, Securitize has seen steady adoption of their compliance platform. Purpose built for the digital securities sector, this platform allows for the issuance and management of digital securities in a regulatory compliant manner.
In Other News
As a leader within the sector, Securitize has found themselves in our news feed as recently as yesterday. Check out a few of the articles below to learn more about recent developments pertaining to this promising company.
Securitize Announces ‘Securitize Ready’ Program
Securitize Partners with Vemanti Group on STO
Leonovus to use Securitize to Host Security Token Offering
Blockchain Choices
Wevest announced their decision to utilize Stellar as a platform for issuing digital securities. This announcement was made after what was called an ‘extensive diligence and testing’ phase, determining which of the industry’s various offerings best suited the companies goals.
With wevest catering towards SMEs, this decision was made, as it will lower the barriers of entry for attaining capital. Stellar provides the wevest STO platform with a scalable solution, which is diverse enough in its functionality to allow for the integration of compliance measures as well. This includes KYC, AML, and more.
Commentary
In their press release, representatives from, both, wevest digital and Stellar, took the time to comment on the development discussed her today. The following is what each had to say on the matter.
Didier Goepfert, Head of Product at wevest, stated,
“Stellar was an obvious choice — it combines simplicity, speed, cost efficiency and met all our requirements. We are glad to join the Stellar ecosystem along with several other European companies, contributing to the adoption of blockchain-based products and providing SMEs with easy and efficient access to equity financing through electronic securities.”
Boris Reznikov, Director of Partnerships at Stellar.org, stated,
“We’re thrilled for wevest to become the latest German fintech to join the Stellar ecosystem…wevest’s investment platform takes advantage of what the Stellar network does best — facilitating the efficient transfer and exchange of value — and we look forward to the upcoming launch of their platform.”
Wevest
Wevest is a German company that was founded in 2018. Wevest specializes in offering a variety of banking services to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). These range from corporate finance to wealth management, and now the facilitation of security tokens offerings.
Operations are overseen by Managing Director, Jens Siebert.
Stellar
Stellar is one of the world’s leading blockchains. Firmly entrenched in the top ten assets (per CoinMarketCap at time of writing), Stellar is a fast, versatile solution. This popular blockchain allows for the use of smart contracts, cheap fees, and high speeds; A perfect trio of attributes for a company like wevest.
Stellar has seen major adoption over the past year, by various major companies. One case of note, is IBM – a partnership seemingly headed towards great things.
In Other News
Stellar is only the latest in a line of blockchains seeing adoption by the digital securities sector. While most platforms utilize Ethereum for their smart contract needs, we have seen the usage of others like Ravencoin, TRON, and others. Here are a few articles which relate to a few of these blockchains in use.
Swarm Announces Collaboration with TRON
TokenizEU Chooses Ravencoin for Security Tokens
The largest decentralized exchange in the world, Vtoken, obtained its SEC filing from the United States Treasury Department this week. The firm took to the world-famous NASDAQ billboard in Time Square to celebrate the move. This is the second time the company graced this iconic attraction seen by millions. Also, the move symbolizes further blockchain integration into traditional securities markets.
Speaking on these developments, Vtoken’s Chief Advisor to the Asia Pacific Region explained how his firm plans to cultivate a robust blockchain ecosystem. He took moment to discuss recent global developments in the security token space. Specifically, he touched on how both Chinese and American markets experienced a huge surge in blockchain-based firms.
Vtoken Platform
The Vtoken combines the regulatory protections found in the traditional securities markets with the efficiency of a blockchain -based system. The company offers transfer agents flexible solutions to many of the current issues plaguing the securities markets.
For example, traditional securities can take three days for trades to complete. This delay leaves investors in a less than optimal position. In contrast, Vtoken’s blockchain-based system can complete trades in a matter of hours. Consequently, the platform enables a more nimble trading experience.
Vtoken via Homepage
Real World Experience
Vtoken is a unique hybrid of technology, compliance, experience, and professional customer service. The firm handles a wide range of clients but specializes in Regulation A transactions. To date, Vtoken’s clients include NASDAQ, NYSE, OTC-listed firms, IPO-issuers, and private investors.
Vtoken’s strategy is unique in that the firm created a complete blockchain ecosystem. Here, investors can get all the information they need to host a compliant STO. The company offers a full range of solutions for both enterprise and private investors. These services include pre and post token issuance and management, smart contract programming, and ownership protection.
The latter feature is unique to V-token. This functionality allows investors to restore lost or stolen tokens, an option not usually available in the blockchain space. More importantly, Vtoken is now in a very exclusive class of decentralized exchanges registered with the SEC.
Vtoken
Vtoken shares many of its core developers with Ripple. Additionally, Vtoken utilizes graphene underlying technology. The token has a trading gateway that is similar to Stellar Lumens. This enables the platform to maintain optimal transaction speeds. Currently, Vtoken can process transactions faster than the third-generation crypto EOS.
Partnerships
Last month, Vtoken made headlines after forming a strategic partnership with blockchain payment platform PayDex. The PayDex platform functions on Vtoken’s public blockchain. The system provides global crypto settlement with support for BTC, ETH, VToken, USDT, VRT, YEC, EOS, LTC, and VUST. PayDex seeks to bring crypto payments to the masses through a simplistic mobile interface.
Vtoken Ecosystem
Vtoken’s all-inclusive approach to the market is crucial to its overall strategy. V-Token provides users with everything they need to become a player in the security token market. You can expect to see this firm continue to make headlines s the platform expands in the coming months.
Secondary Markets
‘Making Illiquid Assets Liquid’ – That is the guiding sentiment behind AlphaPoint, a young company which utilizes blockchain to facilitate tokenization.
This idea is one step closer to becoming a reality, as AlphaPoint has just announced a partnership with Elevated Returns – A forward thinking company which specializes in real-estate.
In this announcement, the pair has indicated that they will be developing a secondary market for trading digital securities backed by real-estate. It is through secondary markets that traditionally illiquid assets, such as real-estate, will become easily tradable – all the while opening up fractionalized ownership, and opportunity for exposure to retail investors.
Elevated Returns will focus these efforts on Asian markets, following their expansion into the region roughly one month ago. At the time, the company acquired a large share in a Thai broker-dealer – a move allowing for them to commence operations through previously attained licensure.
Commentary
In their press release, Stephane De Baets, President of Elevated Returns, commented on this development. The following is what he had to say on the matter.
“Elevated Returns prides itself on our reputation as a pioneer in the digital securities space. To that effect, we have a policy to partner with the best in class companies across industry verticals; AlphaPoint’s technology solutions for unlocking digital asset liquidity are unparalleled. Having already demonstrated the capability to integrate with the token standard that we are developing on the Tezos blockchain, AlphaPoint was the clear choice to facilitate the adoption of our tokenized real estate initiatives.”
AlphaPoint
AlphaPoint is a United States based company that was founded in 2013. With their sights set on ‘making illiquid assets liquid’, AlphaPoint has successfully serviced global customer through their various service offerings.
Since opening their doors, AlphaPoint has seen their diligent work towards growth land them customers in 5 continents, to date.
Company operations are overseen by CEO, Salil Donde.
Elevated Returns
Elevated Returns is a United States based company, which specializes in investments surrounding real-estate. Recognizing the potential of digital securities, Elevated Returns operates with a goal of acquiring assets viable for tokenization.
One such example was the noteworthy tokenization of the St. Regis Resort; A high-end ski resort that successfully sold digital securities representing ownership within the resort, becoming one of the first to do so.
Company operations are overseen by President, Stephane De Baets.
In Other News
We have detailed developments pertaining to both AlphaPoint and Elevated Returns in the past few months. Check out the following articles to learn a bit more about what each of these companies has been up to in this time.
Laureate Digital Partners with AlphaPoint on New Security Token Exchange
Elevated Returns and Securitize to Utilize Tezos for Digital Securities