Why companies are tokenizing their stocks (youtube.com)
An alternative to the ledger system of holding and transfering stocks. The name of the company is Securitize (could they have thought of a more confusing name?).
The token simply represents the ownership of the asset, whether it is a token or another mechanism (like a ledger), he said.
Americans think everything is democratized because their investment is democratized, with Robin Hood et al, but Europeans don't have access to this type of brokerage account, necessarily, and can't transact stocks quickly like Americans can, but Europeans can do it with crypto. So tokenization would enable non Americans. Technically, these tokens are derivatives, under EU MICA admitted regulation. ‘What makes this possible now is clear regulation in the European Union.’
Europeans don't really have access to US stocks.
One of the biggest inequities in capital markets is that big companies stay private longer, in frontier industries like AI, and retail investors can't get exposure.