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Tokenize Stock Exchange and DigiShares Partner to Pursue Joint Tokenization Opportunities

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Tokenise Stock Exchange and DigiShares signed an agreement to establish a new partnership, fostering long-term collaboration on potential future tokenized projects starting from 2021.

The agreement, in the form of a Memorandum of Understanding, formalizes the mutual commitment to support each other’s range of services and strengthens the existing relationship between TKSE and DigiShares at a strategic level. DigiShares has a proven track record in executing innovative and exciting projects in the tokenized securities space. While Tokenize will be providing their regulated and cutting-edge trading platform to give interested companies access to an international network of investors. The partnership will allow streamlined interoperability between the companies, expanding their service offerings to a wider number of clients and investors.

Mike Kessler, CEO at Tokenize, said:

“We are excited for the future of the industry and look forward to partnering with a market leader like DigiShares to deliver cutting-edge capital raising opportunities to international companies.”

Claus Skaaning, CEO at DigiShares, said:

“We welcome this important initiative which formalizes and strengthens our existing relationship with Tokenize. We look forward to future cooperation between two companies in achieving common goals that will deliver cost-effective and innovative ways of raising capital.”

About Tokenize Stock Exchange

Tokenize Stock Exchange International Limited is a fully regulated stock exchange that exclusively focuses on tokenized securities. The Tokenize market solution enables companies from across the globe to list new asset classes as well as traditional ones to provide frictionless market access for issuers and investors. These foundations create a full end-to-end solution for capital raising, primary issuance, secondary trading, clearing, settlement, and registration of tokenized securities.

Website – Facebook – Linkedin – Twitter

About DigiShares

DigiShares is a leading provider of white-label tokenization solutions for real assets, including real estate. The company works with real estate developers, asset managers, and investment fund managers to digitize and automate processes, reduce administrative cost, get more control over the financing process, and achieve increased liquidity. The DigiShares platform has functionality for financing, corporate management, and trading.

Website – LinkedIn – Twitter – Facebook

DigiShares’ Newsletter 69

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Podcast Episode with RedSwan CRE

Claus Skaaning, CEO at DigiShares, sat down recently with Edward Nwokedi, CEO at RedSwan CRE, to discuss a plethora of topics around the Tokenization Industry and to clear up the current state of the space.

The Tokenization Industry has changed drastically over just a few years, you can listen to the latest podcast episode from RedSwan CRE to understand how the industry has transformed, the current and future prospects of tokenizing real estate, and why the tokenization of real estate should be considered

Claus Skaaning, CEO at DigiShares, interview with Edward Nwokedi

About RedSwan CRE

Founded in April 2018, RedSwan CRE is a blockchain-based marketplace that leverages tokenization technology to fractionalize ownership of commercial real estate, making investments more affordable. Sponsors and private investors now have early liquidity options through the issuance and tradability of asset-backed digital securities. Drawing on the team’s deep expertise in real estate, finance, and technology, RedSwan CRE is providing leading-edge capital market solutions for the $54T global industry.

Real Estate Tokenization in Practice: Program Updated

DigiShares would like to inform you that the program for our Webinar Series has been updated as shown below. But don’t worry! The initial topics will still be covered at a later date.

More information on the Webinar series, dates and registration can be found in the Webinar series overview

August 18th: A Value Proposition for Tokenized Real Estate

You are invited!

“A Value Propostion for Tokenized Real Estate” is the first of the Webinar Series: Real Estate Tokenization in Practice by DigiShares. The confirmed program for Webinar can be found on our website.

Here are a few things we warmly welcome you to do:

DigiShares’ Newsletter 68

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Hydra Chain Technologies and DigiShares partner to tokenize Real Estate on the Ravencoin Blockchain.
Hydra Chain Technologies, a Wisconsin-based real estate developer, announced today it has partnered with DigiShares, a provider of end-to-end white-label solutions to tokenize residential properties in Wisconsin.

Through this partnership, Hydra Chain Technologies plans to tokenize single family houses in Wisconsin, USA, which would allow the company to provide liquidity and fractionalized ownership to real estate investors around the world. The collaboration also opens up many opportunities for future tokenization projects that will move beyond real estate. Additionally, the partnership is a step forwards further expanding DigiShares’ service offering to support Ravencoin.

Read the full article here.

How does it work?

 To understand how DigiShares’ white label real estate platform will be implemented at RavenCoinTokens.com, check out this interview between our CEO Claus Skaaning and Sarah Jenkins from Hydra Chain Technologies.

In this video, Claus explains:
1:50 : How the process will look like for a customer.
3:56 : How somebody pays for tokens.
5:20 : How custody works and how one knows that their tokens are safe.
7:40 : How dividends work in the DigiShares system.


Sarah’s Interview with Claus Skaaning – CEO of DigiShares.io

DigiShares Monthly Community Calls: A Value Proposition for Tokenized Real Estate

Last week, our last guest speaker – Sohail Hassan, Co-Founder & Managing Partner at MarketSpace Capital – has confirmed his attendance to the Webinar, which means the official program of the webinar is in!

Take a look at the topics we are going to cover here. If you have any questions for our speakers, feel free to drop a line while registering for the webinar.

Polymath Tokenization Perspective, Strategy and Visions for the Future – Thomas Borrel

Thomas Borrel is Chief Product Officer at Polymath where he leads the Product Strategy, Product Management and Product Marketing teams across Polymath’s product portfolio.

The Digital Securities & Tokenization Summit is an annual summit that focuses on the implementation of blockchain and tokenization within the traditional finance industry.

Keynote Polymath tokenization perspective, strategy and visions for the future Thomas Borrel

More information on our past events can be found here.

In the upcoming weeks, along with weekly updates from DigiShares, we will also link video recordings from our past event as our thanks for subscribing to our newsletter.

UPCOMING EVENTS

DigiShares’ Newsletter 67

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Hydra Chain Technologies and DigiShares partner to tokenize Real Estate on the Ravencoin Blockchain
Hydra Chain Technologies, a Wisconsin-based real estate developer, announced today it has partnered with DigiShares, a provider of end-to-end white-label solutions to tokenize residential properties in Wisconsin.

Through this partnership, Hydra Chain Technologies plans to tokenize single family houses in Wisconsin, USA, which would allow the company to provide liquidity and fractionalized ownership to real estate investors around the world. The collaboration also opens up many opportunities for future tokenization projects that will move beyond real estate. Additionally, the partnership is a step forwards further expanding DigiShares’ service offering to support Ravencoin.

Read the full article here.

MIT Real Estate Forum 2021

Join DigiShares and our VP of Business Development Bjørn Holta at the 2-day MIT Real Estate Forum 2021 by the MIT Center for Real Estate this July 13-14.

10:30 AM EDT | Session B: Capital Evolution: New models for real estate finance.

The old models of real estate are being challenged by new, tech-enabled approaches – real estate finance is no exception. The intersection of technology and commercial real estate promises to make investing more seamless, transparent and dynamic. This session considers single asset stock listings, tokenization, and NFTs, with insight from trailblazing experts who are pursuing these promising mechanisms for reinventing real estate finance.

Host: Dr. Thomas Wiegelmann, Managing Director, Schroder Real Estate Asset Management
Guest: Bjorn Holta, Business Development Lead, Digishares
Guest: Richard Croft, Executive Chairman, M7 Real Estate

Participants can expect:

– Engaging discussions: Lively and informative discussions between industry thought leaders on topics impacting global real estate – today and into the future.
– A look into the future: Join industry leaders, distinguished MIT faculty and researchers, developers and investors, technologists and founders, in a wide-ranging and far-reaching conversation about the future of global real estate.
– MIT Innovation Showcase: A unique opportunity to learn about MIT’s latest, most exciting research on real estate innovation, technology, and the future of global real estate.

DigiShares Monthly Community Calls: Real Estate Tokenization in Practice

DigiShares is excited to announce our upcoming webinar series: Real Estate Tokenization in Practice. This series will consist of initially 4 monthly webinars, namely: Value Proposition of Tokenized Real Estate, Real Estate Tokenization & DeFi Lending, Real Estate Tokenization & Decentralized Trading and Real Estate Tokenization & Banks starting from August 18, 2021.

The webinar is of interest for anyone interested in staying on the leading edge of real estate tokenization with one of the leading players, DigiShares. On every community call there will be a status update from our management, an expert presentation on a topic of current interest in relation to tokenization (DeFi, banking, stablecoins, etc.) and there will also be presentations from one or more of our clients and partners.

More information on the Webinar series, dates and registration can be found here.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Hydra Chain Technologies and DigiShares Partner to Tokenize Real Estate on the Ravencoin Blockchain

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Hydra Chain Technologies, a Wisconsin-based real estate developer, announced today it has partnered with DigiShares, a provider of end-to-end white-label solutions to tokenize residential properties in Wisconsin.

Through this partnership, Hydra Chain Technologies plans to tokenize single family houses in Wisconsin, USA, which would allow the company to provide liquidity and fractionalized ownership to real estate investors around the world. The collaboration also opens up many opportunities for future tokenization projects that will move beyond real estate. Additionally, the partnership is a step forwards further expanding DigiShares service offering to support Ravencoin.

Hydra Chain Technologies has launched their first tokenized home in Wisconsin in River Falls, which will also be the first tokenized project using Ravencoin Blockchain in the US. The initial funding of the project in River Falls will be around $625,000.

Sarah Jenkins, from Hydra Chain Technologies stated “We view DigiShares as one of the leaders in the space of real estate tokenization and look forward to work with them. They are flexible and easy to work with and will support our favorite blockchain, Ravencoin”.

On the new partnership, Claus Skaaning, CEO at DigiShares commented “We are very pleased to work with Hydra Chain Technologies as it has facilitated our expansion into the world of Ravencoin. The Ravencoin blockchain has high performance and low gas fees and it lends itself well to tokenization and security tokens. We look forward to expanding our platform to support Ravencoin and look forward to the collaboration”.

About Hydra Chain Technologies

Hydra Chain Technologies is an innovative real estate developer based in Wisconsin. Their current projects including investment properties to new construction in Twin Cities Metro and Western Wisconsin.
Website.

About DigiShares A/S

DigiShares is one of the leading providers of asset management and crowdfunding platforms for real assets, including real estate and private equity. Our solutions enable asset owners and fund managers to digitize and automate processes, to reduce administrative cost, to reduce the ticket size to fractionalize and democratize and enable retail investors to participate, and finally to provide a huge increase in liquidity through the built-in marketplace that enables shareholders to trade their assets.
Website.

DigiShares’ Newsletter 66

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Eyethu Beverages Token: DigiShares White-Label Partner Afri-X Tokenizes African Beverages

As the highlight of the past week; Afri-X.com announced the launch of Eyethu Beverages Token, issued on the DigiShares tokenization platform, as Afri-X’s first token outside of the Real Estate market.

“This is one of the first real tokenization projects we are aware of in Africa and we hope it will see a good level of interest. We particular like the element of democratization which is so important both in Africa and elsewhere in order to give equal opportunity access to investments into assets that are normally out of reach for retail investors”, commented Claus Skaaning, CEO at DigiShares.

Read the Full Article here.

MIT Real Estate Forum 2021

Join DigiShares and our VP of Business Development Bjørn Holta at the 2-day MIT Real Estate Forum 2021 by the MIT Center for Real Estate this July 13-14.

Participants can expect:
– Engaging discussions: Lively and informative discussions between industry thought leaders on topics impacting global real estate – today and into the future.
– A look into the future: Join industry leaders, distinguished MIT faculty and researchers, developers and investors, technologists and founders, in a wide-ranging and far-reaching conversation about the future of global real estate.
– MIT Innovation Showcase: A unique opportunity to learn about MIT’s latest, most exciting research on real estate innovation, technology, and the future of global real estate.

More information about MIT Real Estate Forum and how to register can be found here.

DigiShares Monthly Community Calls: Real Estate Tokenization in Practice

DigiShares is excited to announce our incoming webinar series: Real Estate Tokenization in Practice. This series will consist of initially 4 monthly webinars, namely: Value Proposition of Tokenized Real Estate, Real Estate Tokenization & DeFi Lending, Real Estate Tokenization & Decentralized Trading and Real Estate Tokenization & Banks starting from August 18, 2021.

The webinar is of interest for anyone interested in staying on the leading edge of real estate tokenization with one of the leading players, DigiShares. On every community call there will be a status update from our management, an expert presentation on a topic of current interest in relation to tokenization (DeFi, banking, stablecoins, etc.) and there will also be presentations from one or more of our clients and partners.

More information on the Webinar series, dates and registration can be found here.

PropTech Switzerland Innovation Index 2021

DigiShares is honored to have our white paper “Tokenization of Real Estate -Best Practices” mentioned on PropTech Switzerland Innovation Index 2021. The index is a detailed study of Swiss PropTech ecosystem. It is based on research and development project of PropTech Academy Association and PropTech Switzerland Association.

“Real estate is the biggest single asset class where tokenization can provide value – $228 trillion in total assets. The real estate market shares the value proposition of the overall securities market.”

Check out this white paper from DigiShares to see in detail how and why you should tokenize real estate, and the DigiShares approach for this. In this paper, we covered:
1. Real Estate Tokenization – Why?
2. The DigiShares Platform
3. Real Estate Tokenization Processes

Read the Full Paper here.

PropTech Academy is a Switzerland-based regulatory institution for international standardization and evaluation of PropTech companies in the real estate, construction, and finance sectors. However, the standards relate to methods of testing, terminology and definitions, information requirements, or the compatibility of connections.
To learn more about PropTech Academy, click here.

Eyethu Beverages Token: DigiShares White-Label Partner Afri-X Tokenizes African Beverages

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Afri-X today proudly announced the launch of Eyethu Beverages Token, issued on the DigiShares tokenization platform, as Afri-X’s first token outside of the Real Estate market.

Eyethu Beverages is a well-established South African business that produces both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. The funding required is to launch two already very well-known cider brands in the market. The total raise is ZAR60 million ($5 million) and there will be one million tokens on offer for 30% equity in the business.

Afri-X is a South African white label partner of DigiShares, providing tokenization services in the Sub-Saharan Africa for both crowdfunding and real assets. They are seeing a rising level of interest and engagement from both business owners and investors as the awareness and acceptance of tokenization increases.

“The opportunity to provide an alternative funding source to a South African Unicorn in the making while simultaneously providing everyday men and women from all over the world access to an exceptional business was one we simply could not afford to miss”, remarked Tsolo Makara, CEO at Afri-X.com.

Claus Skaaning, CEO of DigiShares, comments, “This is one of the first real tokenization projects we are aware of in Africa and we hope it will see a good level of interest. We particular like the element of democratization which is so important both in Africa and elsewhere in order to give equal opportunity access to investments into assets that are normally out of reach for retail investors”.

About Eyethu Beverages

Eyethu Beverages (“Eyethu”) is a South African majority Black owned beverages special purpose company founded by Mike Veysie and Ndumiso Madlala, created to invest in the alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages sectors in order to expedite transformation in the Liquor Industry in South Africa. The firm’s activities involve manufacturing of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages in South Africa and in other African countries on a toll-manufacturing basis as well as the manufacturing and marketing of own brands.

Eyethu acquired a Cider Plant from Diageo South Africa in August 2019 with a capacity of 40 million litres of Cider at 5% abv. and produced Cider Base for Heineken South Africa. Eyethu has expanded its business into ethanol and bio-ethanol and has entered into a purchase agreement to acquire a distillery with a capacity of 2,5 million litres of Extra Neutral Alcohol and 5 million litres of Bio-fuel annually.

About Afri-X

Afri-X sits at the intersection between transformational businesses and other entities needing growth capital and Investors who can participate by buying from as little as one token.

By positioning Afri-X as the premier tokenization platform in Sub-Saharan Africa, the opportunity exists to deliver significant value to all stakeholders while leaving a lasting positive impact in the territories that the platform operates in.

Website: www.afri-x.com

About DigiShares A/S

DigiShares is one of the leading providers of asset management and crowdfunding platforms for real assets, including real estate and private equity. Our solutions enable asset owners and fund managers to digitize and automate processes, to reduce administrative cost, to reduce the ticket size to fractionalize and democratize and enable retail investors to participate, and finally to provide a huge increase in liquidity through the built-in marketplace that enables shareholders to trade their assets.

Website: https://digishares.wodwes.com

DigiShares’ Newsletter 65

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Archax Exchange and DigiShares announce partnership agreement.

Real estate backed tokens issued on the DigiShares tokenisation platform now can be made available for trading on the Archax Exchange.

Key take-aways:
– The partnership ensures interoperability between the DigiShares and Archax platforms.
– The partnership is expected to deliver accessibility, predictability, and security for investors in digital securities.
– Admittance to Archax allows investors to buy, sell and trade security tokens with greater liquidity and trading volume, and a high rate of security.
– This partnership also sets a solid foundation for DigiShares to continually expand the availability of its product offerings on a larger number of global markets.

Read more about our partnership with Archax Exchange.

Webinar Recording: How to Tokenize an Asset by AREF

In this video, you can find the practical steps involved in tokenization of an asset; the pros and cons of tokenization vs a conventional deal; and a view from the fintech industry on their experience of adoption. Followed by a lively discussion session expanding on some of these aspects.

More information about the past Webinar: “How to Tokenise an asset” and speakers can be found here.

AREF Tokenisation webinar: How to Tokenise an Asset – Monday 14th June 2021

More information about the past Webinar: “How to Tokenize an asset” and speakers can be found here

The Association of Real Estate Funds (AREF) is the UK-based body that represents the interests of its member funds, those firms that advise and support them and the end-investors. Their membership includes over sixty-five funds spanning the leading real estate fund management houses in the industry, through to smaller, specialist boutiques, with a collective net asset value of over £72bn. They now have more than fifty Affiliate members, a number of Associate members and hundreds of Investor members.

To learn more about AREF, check out their brochure here.

Tokenization of Real Estate – Best Practices

DigiShares is honored to have our white paper “Tokenization of Real Estate – Best Practices” mentioned on PropTech Switzerland Innovation Index 2021. The index is a detailed study of Swiss PropTech ecosystem. It based on research and development project of PropTech Academy Association and PropTech Switzerland Association.

“Real estate is the biggest single asset class where tokenization can provide value – $228 trillion in total assets. The real estate market shares the value proposition of the overall securities market.”

Check out this white paper from DigiShares to see in details how and why you should tokenize real estate, and the DigiShares approach for this. In this paper, we covered:

1. Real Estate Tokenization – Why?
2. The DigiShares Platform
3. Real Estate Tokenization Processes

PropTech Academy is a Switzerland-based regulatory institution for international standardization and evaluation of PropTech companies in the real estate, construction, and finance sectors. However, the standards relate to methods of testing, terminology and definitions, information requirements, or the compatibility of connections.
To learn more about PropTech Academy, click here.

Archax Exchange and DigiShares Announce Partnership Agreement

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DigiShares and Archax are proud to announce a new partnership where real estate backed tokens issued on the DigiShares tokenization platform can be made available for trading on Archax Exchange, the first FCA (Financial Conduct Authority) regulated digital securities exchange, based in London.

Key take-aways:

  • The partnership ensures interoperability between the DigiShares and Archax platforms
  • The partnership is expected to deliver accessibility, predictability, and security for investors in digital securities.
  • Admittance to Archax allows investors to buy, sell and trade security tokens with greater liquidity and trading volume, and a high rate of security.
  • This partnership also sets a solid foundation for DigiShares to continually expand the availability of its product offerings on a larger number of global markets.

This partnership signals the accelerating growth of both the Archax Exchange and DigiShares in the fast-growing security token and tokenization industry, as well as solidifying DigiShares’ position as a leading provider of white-label issuance platforms for real assets.

Claus Skaaning, CEO of DigiShares, “We view Archax as the leading regulated security token exchange in Europe and are proud of the partnership. We hope to provide Archax with a significant number of European-based high-end projects for admittance to their regulated exchange and look forward to the collaboration”.

Simon Barnby, CMO of Archax, “We view DigiShares as one of the leaders in the fast-growing tokenization industry and look forward to collaborate. We both share the same values and work together to further the quality, transparency, security and compliance of the digital assets and security token industry”.

About Archax Exchange

Archax is a global, regulated, digital asset exchange, brokerage and custodian based in London. Founded by experts from the financial markets world and backed by an accomplished advisory board, Archax offers a credible bridge between the blockchain-centric crypto community and the traditional investment space.

Archax is the first ever firm to receive FCA regulation as a digital securities exchange, custodian, and brokerage. It was also the first firm to be listed on the Crypto asset Register as a VASP (Virtual Asset Service Provider).

Archax has been designed specifically for institutional investors to trade in all types of digital assets, from cryptocurrencies to digital securities. It is built using existing, proven, resilient, scalable, high-performance exchange infrastructure, hosted in top-tier data centre space, and integrated into existing institutional trading workflow.

Website – Twitter – LinkedIn – Telegram – Medium

About DigiShares A/S

DigiShares is a leading provider of white-label tokenization solutions for real assets, including real estate. The company works with real estate developers, asset managers, and investment fund managers to digitize and automate processes, reduce administrative cost, get more control over the financing process, and achieve increased liquidity. The DigiShares platform has functionality for financing, corporate management, and trading.

Website – LinkedIn – Twitter – Facebook – Telegram

DigiShares’ Newsletter 64

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As we slide into a new busy working week, set aside some time to brew yourself a good cup of coffee and read up on the weekly updates from DigiShares.

In this week’s issue, we cover an interview between our CEO – Claus Skaaning and Sarah Jenkins from BlockChainRealtor.com, an explainer video to help you learn more about our platform and solutions, and also a warm invitation to our Telegram community.

But first, have we connected?
Linkedin – Facebook – Twitter – Telegram

First Project on Ravencoin

Last week, our CEO Claus Skaaning sat down for an interview with Sarah Jenkins from BlockChainRealtor.com and discussed details about DigiShares’ white label real estate platform and how it will be implemented at RavenCoinTokens.com
In this video, Claus explains:
1:50 : How the process will look like for a customer.
3:56 : How somebody pays for tokens.
5:20 : How custody works and how one knows that their tokens are safe.
7:40 : How dividends work in the DigiShares system.

Sarah’s Interview with Claus Skaaning – CEO of DigiShares.io

Explainer Video

We made an explainer video! This is a great entry point for you to get to know DigiShares and our solutions for issuance and management of security tokens & tokenized securities. If you are one of our new subscribers, watch the video here.

DigiShares Telegram Community

We are rolling out a series of webinars in the upcoming months, in which our community members have the chance to connect and ask questions directly to our company’s specialists and sometimes our guest speakers in the field of tokenization.

We’d love to have you. Join us today.