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Asset Tokenization -Crypto App Factory

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Asset tokenization is a new concept that uses digital tokens to fractionalize ownership of assets such as property, jewellery or fine art and smart contracts on block chain to manage these ownership rights. Being able to tokenize assets opens up new alternative investment opportunities for asset managers and their clients, but today, the business and technology infrastructure is not in place to be able to manage tokenized assets within the portfolio Management System. There are about Four Kinds of tokens: 1.     Payments or Platform Tokens These are cryptocurrencies used as a means of payment in the digital space, the likes of Bitcoin , Ether, and Lite coin etc. 2. Utility Tokens: These tokens are simply app coins or user tokens. They enable future access to the products or services offered by a Company. Therefore, these tokens are not created to be an investment and does not require strict levels of Compliance .This is very rampant in the World of ICOs i.e. Fil

Initial Coin Offering Vs Initial Exchange Offering – Crypto App Factory

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Initial Coin Offering (ICO) Initial Coin Offering (ICO) is the Cryptocurrency equivalent of an Initial Public Offering (IPO), where a company goes from private to public status by selling shares for equity. This is typically done to get funds without the need to go to a Venture Company (VC) or bank. An ICO solves the basic problem of initial coin distribution. An initial coin offering is similar in concept to an initial public offering (IPO) , both a process in which companies raise capital, while an ICO is an investment that gives the investor a crypto coin, more commonly known as a coin or a token in return for investment, which is quite different to the issuance of securities as is the case in an IPO investment. ICOs are easy to structure because of technologies like the ERC20 Token Standard , which abstracts a lot of the development process necessary to create a new cryptographic asset. Most ICOs work by having investors send funds (usually Bitcoin or ether) to a