Digital Securities
Stellar Chosen by Wevest for Security Token Offering Platform
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.
