How Catalyst is Transforming Investments
Asset tokenization is the process of representing real-world assets – anything from financial instruments, commodities, to real estate – as secure digital tokens via distributed ledger technology (DLT).
Asset tokenization involves building a distributed ledger-based solution that converts the ownership rights or value of specific assets into a digitized form. Tokens are housed and traded across the distributed ledger, meaning they are cryptographically secured, traceable, and benefit from smart contract functionality.
- Financial securities – stocks, bonds, options
- Commodities – energy, precious metals, agricultural products
- Real estate & land — residential, commercial, and industrial property, land deeds
- Physical property – luxury goods, equipment, fleets
- Intellectual property – patents, copyrights, trademarks
- Art & collectibles — fine art, NFTs, rare collections
- Carbon credits — tree planting projects, sustainable aviation fuel, renewable energy
Catalysts Use Cases
Tokenized Financial Securities Platform
Solution for the management of tokenized stock / bond / options trading leveraging smart contracts at every stage of the transaction/settlement process.
Tokenized Commodities Trading
Platform enabling dynamic investment opportunities underpinned by digitized commodities, removing the need to buy/sell through futures markets.
On-chain Real Estate & Land Trading
Solution enabling fractionalized ownership and trading of real estate assets.
Asset Lifecycle & Data Management Solution
Near real-time, immutable asset tracking and management of tokenized physical property (equipment, vehicle/machine fleets, etc.).
Tokenized Marketplace for Intellectual Property
All-in-one tokenization platform for buying, selling, and leasing of registered patents, copyrights, and trademarks.
Platform for Digitized Art & Collectibles
Tokenization platform allowing fractional trade of traditionally illiquid luxury goods and assets.
Immutable Carbon Trading Platform
Distributed platform for registering, buying, selling, and burning tokenized carbon offsets, allowing immutable tracking of carbon credits tied to monitored real-world carbon sequestration projects.
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Benefits of asset tokenization
Fractional ownership is one of the major advantages of tokenization. By dividing traditionally illiquid assets across a multitude of tokens, ownership can be traded in bite-sized portions, making it easier to trade and more accessible to lower net-worth investors. This is particularly relevant for certain stocks, bonds, and properties.
Tokenization of assets provides disintermediation, cutting out the cost and friction of middlemen. By collapsing the trade cycle, transaction costs are reduced and processing times are shortened, allowing for a more streamlined, cost-efficient transfer of value.
Blockchain is immutable, meaning that altering data about assets nefariously is not only extremely difficult, it is easy to notice and rectify. Blockchain also records all transactions and state changes, meaning that tokenized assets are simple to track. This improves market transparency.
Another powerful feature of tokenized assets is the potential use of blockchain-based smart contracts. Self-executing programs allow humans to be eliminated from many market processes, bringing greater simplicity and efficiency to existing infrastructure, and making entirely new mechanisms possible
How we do it at Catalyst
Let’s give some info about our technical approach, our technical experience and background, our expertise and so on.
Technically Advanced Platform
- Failover mechanisms
- Disaster & recovery
- Simplified and supported migration between versions
- Technical and application monitoring
- Integration with existing monitoring tools
In-house DLT Expertise
- Failover mechanisms
- Disaster & recovery
- Simplified and supported migration between versions
- Technical and application monitoring
- Integration with existing monitoring tools
Asset Tokenization on Catalyst Blockchain Manager
With the help of Catalyst, organizations can enable asset tokenization solutions in a streamlined and efficient manner, greatly reducing the expertise demand and necessary developer footprint. Catalyst is developed by blockchain experts with deep financial services industry knowledge. Catalyst customers enjoy dedicated support and assistance with the design and development of their solutions.