Creating Security Tokens of Traditional Assets? The difference between an NFT and a Security Token? Where does Tradfi Finish and Defi Start?
Corey Segal, VP of Partnerships at Vertalo, an Austin Texas based company who provides advice on how businesses can transition into the digital asset ecosystem, discusses how to tokenize traditional assets, how regulations still play a major role in these security assets, where secondary markets can be created and what is the difference between security tokens and non-fungible tokens is. Opportunity abounds in this space if one understands the process and regulations. Just imagine fractionating anything from a racehorse to a holiday home or a skyscraper. There is much to come.
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Beyond Bitcoin Ep 31- How Metaverse and Defi work together
Like most of the world of crypto assets, Metaverse and Defi are inextricably linked as assets are created in the metaverse NFTs and games, lending and borrowing and a plethora of new business models are executed. Join us to discuss this confluence and how the symbiotic relationship works.
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Beyond Bitcoin Ep 30- Crypto Risk Management — The logic behind managing risk
When you know what the risks are it is easier to prepare for them. There are 6 board based industry risks that include but are not limited to — The challenge of understanding the diversity of token offerings and business models (tokenomics), the corresponding valuation difficulties, regulatory risks, illiquidity, custody and counterparty risk. There is no silver bullet but there are ways to be aware and prepare. Join us as we share ideas on investing in crypto assets.
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The ability to connect these economic and value systems — we think about framing this, we discuss the ability to traverse the “thing of Value” across various value ecosystems with seamless exchange and built-in trust and ask is this what defines Metaverse?
At this time in history is the industry providing adequate tokenized services with embedded trust or simply embarking on different modalities and user experiences? As the listener, you decide.
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Portal Digital Fund
February: -0.5%*
2021: 83.1%
YTD: -12.1%
Since Inception: 165.8%
Horizon Index Fund
February: -6.9%
YTD: -35.5%
Since Inception: -30.6%
Market Commentary from Mark Witten, CIO
Cryptocurrencies and digital assets (“crypto assets”) have now been embraced as a conventional asset class by most investment professionals and are now discussed daily in all major financial media outlets. Investors are embracing
crypto assets as they begin to understand the potential they have to provide secure, unbiased, and decentralised access to a new world of financial opportunity and innovation for billions. This is particularly true with the disintermediation that Web 3.0 represents and current concerns around government overreach in the traditional banking sector.
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NFT’s (Non-Fungible Tokens) are possibly the most misunderstood sector of the world of digital assets. So much more than tokenised art NFT’s are likely to see real estate, finance and fund management disrupted, assets fractionated and shared and communities created and empowered. Join our conversation with Jimmie Lenz, Director, Master of Engineering in FinTech and Master of Engineering in Cybersecurity at Duke University.
Featuring Kevin Coutinho, the CTO of L1X.
Join us on a journey from today’s volatility, to the interconnectedness of all digital assets to the need for scalable decentralised blockchains and the interoperability that is at best in its infancy.
L1X has taken on the challenge to solve each of these blockchain limitations while keeping interoperability at the forefront. Does this matter? You bet it does. Inexpensive, secure, decentralised transactions that can occur seamlessly between all blockchains are the holy grail.
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