2.3.5.2.1 Asset Tokens

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Asset Tokens are broadly defined as digital assets representing ownership of a physical or intangible asset. These tokens represent physical assets such as gold bullion, real estate, and inventory or paper assets such as stock, bonds and profit rights. For example, Asset Tokens are similar to paper stock certificates and grant the rights such as the ability to vote at meetings, receive dividend payouts or be notified of quarterly or annual reports. Asset Tokens allow for the transferring or selling of the asset. See Murray and Auch 1) Mark Murray, Sam Auch, Understanding Digital asset Classifications, RSM.com, 08 June 2020, Accessed: 24 September 2021, https://rsmus.com/what-we-do/services/assurance/featured-topics/audit-innovation/understanding-digital-asset-classifications.html

Advantages of using a Digital Assets to represent equity ownership or ownership of other assets are:

Not rely on centralized administrators to track and uphold ownershipIncrease in security over the assetIncrease in transparency Automated compliance for record keepingSelf-custody or trusted agent custody of digital assets