🔥 Top 5 — Most important news of the week

First Trade of Security Token by ATS with Custodial Service



Broker-dealer SharesPost announced its first secondary transaction with BCAP tokens issued by Blockchain Capital. SharesPost CEO John Wu stated:



“This was a small trade, it’s like a pilot program, we’re ‘running the water through the pipes’ to make sure,” he explained. “To our knowledge, this was the first trade of digital securities by an Alternative Trading System and broker dealer in which the ATS custodied the digital securities. This clears the path for companies to do compliant STO’s in the U.S. and provide their investors with secondary liquidity.”

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2. How to tokenize Apple, FB and Tesla Stocks



Estonian Exchange „DX.Exchange“ went live this Monday, offering Security Tokens representing shares of 10 Nasdaq-listed companies including Apple, Facebook and Tesla.

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3. tZERO hands its Security Tokens over to Investors



tZERO, a SEC-regulated exchange for digitized securities announced the next steps for their investors to take custody of tZERO`s Security Tokens. Basically they have two options choosing from, which is keeping the tokens in a brokerage account or on their personal wallet.

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4. EOS releases new Protocol for Security Tokens



The new protocol named „Financial Securities Protocol (FSP)“ is intended to enable the creation of Security Tokens on the EOS blockchain aiming to be the “blueprint for the Financial System 3.0.”

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5. Polymath builds Partnership with Leadbest to expand Token Ecosystem

Polymath is starting a partnership with Taiwanese company Leadbest, an issuance platform supporting projects with the tokenizsation process, fundraising and asset management. Together both companies are aiming to build a strong token investing ecosystem with LeadBest being Polymath’s main strategic partner in Asia.

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