A two day conference, related to security tokens, takes place this week in London. It’s called Security Token Realised. The kinds of sponsors and speakers shed some insights into the state of the ecosystem’s maturity. The focal point for the firms engaged is London.
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Platforms & Exchanges
Archax – A team of 5 executives, 7 advisors with 5 crypto-ecosystem partners have created a regulated and “institutional-grade” exchange for “asset-backed tokens” in London. Graham Rodford is the CEO.
Tokeny – The 17 person team responsible for the Tokens for Regulated Exchange standard, spread across Luxembourg, Paris, London, and Minneapolis has created an end-to-end platform to issue, manage and transfer security tokens. They have compiled a summary of the current Security Token Ecosystem. Their CEO is Luc Falempin.
Kodebox – A 15 person team aiming to help tokenize art, patents, real estate, and inventory. Their CEO, JinGyeong Jeong is based in Korea. Their main project is CodeChain, the “Programmable multi-asset chain” claims to be “an end-to-end solution for real-world asset digitization” and has had active contributions recently.
MIRIS – A company partnered with international conglomerates such as Nokia, has developed a platform to invest in, and trade, tokens which represent claims to “value, rights and contractual obligations” related to real estate projects. Their vision includes transparency into the operations (ie supply chain) of individual projects. They are based in Norway and have at least 51 employees.
White Labels & Public Parents
CEDEX – A platform aiming to tokenize diamonds. It’s advertised as a staple in the portfolio of a technology company listed on the LSE, named Tech Financials Group (“TECH“). It’s unclear if TECH is a parent, supplier, or partner because multiple team members at CEDEX used to have positions at TECH.
ANXONE – Offers a white label trading platform for programmable capital. They are part of the HKSE listed, Branding China Group (“SEHK”) (863). There are at least 3 employees, according to linkedin.
Both TECH and Branding China Group have shown material weakness in the performance of their public equity.
AlphaPoint – New York, US based firm sells a white-label solution for digital asset exchange. The team is led by an ex-Nasdaq executive, and has 13 open positions — including 5 regional sales roles spanning the 3 largest continents by GDP. Their customer list boasts firms such as CME Group and Scotia Bank. They have partnerships counting Intel and Red Hat.
Custody & Compliance
Koine – The former CEO of Soc Gen, Hugh Hughes, is now building out custody and settlement solutions for digital asset exchange. There are at least 29 employees. Their headquarters are in London.
Compliancy Services – The 31-person strong team in the UK looks to be extending their surface area to the programmable capital ecosystem. They published a guide in October of 2018 related to the regulation of cryptocurrencies and another guide on financial crimes in the same space, in September 2018.
Other Sponsors of Note
Iconomi – Allows you to buy and sell first generation programmable money.
SHG Capital – A $1.8B Super Angel fund launched in 2014.
GSX Group – The 2014-founded, Gibraltar Stock Exchange’s latest initiative is a joint venture with two other firms, Prime Fintech Co. Ltd and Hong Kong listed Chong Sing Fintech Holdings. The JV forms Hashstacs, to “radically transform the capital markets”. They use the word Distributed Ledger Technology in their marketing material. Also in the GCS Group, is the Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange. Their ROCK token sale in early 2018, raised $27M USD.
The other sponsors were less relevant to the adoption-centric mission of programmablecapital.com. Some are more broad technology solutions, some have offerings of auxiliary services, others are just young start-ups which are still in early stages of team or financial development. If we didn’t get it right, and somebody should have been covered for their innovation, impact or adoption, please leave a comment.
Speakers
Naturally, many of the sponsors have executives speaking. There seems to be a small amount of active participation and contribution from non-sponsors as well. Below is a sample of the subset of noteworthy individuals participating at the conference.
- Anthony Woolley, Head of Innovation UK, Soc Gen is either leading/participating in, a panel discussion on the business case surrounding STOs.
- Ioana Surpateanu, Director of Government Affairs, Citi and Herve Francois, Blockchain Initiative Lead, ING Bank, is discussing operations and financial services.
- Suchitra Nair, EMEA Centre for Regulatory Strategy, Deloitte is in a panel on regulation.
- Richard Foster, Founder of Security Token Network, is helping with pitch sessions. His site has curated “the complete list of STOs“.
- Steve Silliam, Leaseum Partners, is drumming up support for their dividend paying, $250M USD, Real-Estate STO coming this quarter.