Tokenized Securities Are Not Secured By Delaware Blockchain Amendments
In the last year, more and more blockchain entrepreneurs have sought to leverage public blockchains, such as Ethereum, to create registries allowing for the recording and transferring of assets, such as diamonds, real estate and securities, through a system that allows the assets to be represented by specific computer code, often referred to as tokens.
Tokenizing securities, including shares of stock and bonds, can eliminate friction and create efficiencies in capital markets. But contrary to many assertions, the Delaware Blockchain Amendments (which revised Delaware’s General Corporation Law to authorize the use of distributed ledger technology for the issuance and transfer of shares) do not provide blanket authority for shares of stock of a Delaware corporation to be tokenized. Read more @Forbes.