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šŸ¦ The First Tokenized Warrant: UBS Tokenize, OSL, Xiaomi

šŸ¤  Thereā€™s a New Platform in Town: REtokens

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Goooood Morning, Rainmakers! ā˜€ļø

As always, we have two captivating topics for you to dive into:

1ļøāƒ£ šŸ¦ The First Tokenized Warrant: UBS Tokenize, OSL, Xiaomi

2ļøāƒ£ šŸ¤  Thereā€™s a New Platform in Town: REtokens

Without further ado, it's time toā€¦

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Your First Captivating Topic of the Week

šŸ¦ The First Tokenized Warrant: UBS Tokenize, OSL, Xiaomi

Thereā€™s a first time for everything and this week we saw the first tokenized warrant issued via UBS Tokenize, their in-house tokenization platform. The warrant is for Xiaomi stock and it sold to OSL Digital Securities.

Before going further, whatā€™s a warrant?
I gotchaā€¦

Letā€™s Get Liquid

Youā€™ve probably heard of a call option, which gives you the right to buy shares of stock at a specific price on or before a certain date. Letā€™s say you have a call option with a strike price of $10 and an expiration date of March 31, 2024. If you notice the stock is trading at $18 on March 30th, you may want to exercise your call option and buy shares at the lower rate of $10 (your strike price), meaning you get them for $8 cheaper per share than everyone else! Good deal!

A call warrant is VERY similar with a few changes. It still gives you the right (not obligation) to buy shares at a strike price but on a specific date, not before. Also, the warrant is typically issued by the company itself, unlike an option which exchanges and others can issue (popular one is Cboe).

Of course, thereā€™s more to it but now that we have the basics down, letā€™s get dive deeper into this news!

Aside from this being the first tokenized warrant, itā€™s also natively issued on the Ethereum blockchain, meaning thereā€™s no ā€œanalogā€ version of it. The whole point is that UBS Tokenize and the buyer, OSL Digital Securities, are exploring using blockchain for these kinds of structured products for blockchainā€™s benefits including accessibility, efficiency (streamlined, cheaper trading and admin processes), and transparency.

We are simulating the whole product life cycle of an equity-linked structured product token, from token mint, through simulated secondary market transactions, and finally to token burn at maturity.

Patrick Pan, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at OSL Group.

We know UBS has historically been tokenizing multiple assets, although mostly were debt products such as Bank of China Internationalā€™s (BOCI) 200M CNH structured note which we lightly covered in a previous edition of Whatā€™s Drippinā€™.

Cool to see them expanding the use of their tokenization platform to other types of securities and excited to see what other ā€œfirstsā€ UBS Tokenize leads the charge on!

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Boasting a diverse array of industry experts as speakers, thought-provoking panels, and an immersive workshop, the conference offers an in-depth exploration of the ever-evolving tokenization landscape.

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Your Second Captivating Topic of the Week

šŸ¤  Thereā€™s a New Platform in Town: REtokens

As tokenization continues to grow its spotlight as the next evolution of capital markets, we are seeing new platforms providing services that support it. Some are industry-agnostic and others leverage their previous lives to curate a platform towards a specific sector. In the case of real estate, we have a new player and its REtokens.

Led by Tyler Vinson and David Kirschbaum, REtokens just announced their new, proprietary capital platform to support real estate projects. The founders have 20+ years of experience in the real estate investment space and are using that to create REtokens, meant for both institutional and private equity syndicators.

REtokens stands at the forefront of real estate investment, reshaping the landscape with our deep understanding of what Sponsors and Syndicators truly need.

Tyler Vinson, CEO of REtokens USA Inc.

Rather than only onboarding $50M+ properties, REtokens is looking to bring that down to just $1M. Blockchain makes this a lot easier to achieve considering a lot of the process that demands higher investment minimums is a lot more streamlined. The benefits of course would include a lower barrier to entry for individuals and syndicates, more granular allocations for institutions, and higher potential for liquidity for both.

Theyā€™re also eating their own dog food! REtokens is tokenizing their own equity and is accessible to accredited investors at just a $5,000 minimum. This offering is already live and over 50% committed.

Want to learn more? Weā€™ll be hosting Tyler and David this Wednesday, February 14th at 12pm EST on Security Token Prime, covering the platform launch, this offering, and more. Itā€™s FREE to sign up today and enjoy all the other Security Token Prime benefits while youā€™re at it!

šŸ’¦ What else is Drippinā€™

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Join Maple, Centrifuge, and Swarm in exploring the bridging of traditional finance with the power of DeFi through blockchain technology. Themes will include lending & borrowing, cash management & treasuries, and institutional applications.

There's a new platform in town! Tyler Vinson and David Kirschbaum just announced REtokens is launching their new, proprietary capital platform designed to transform how equity is accessed in real estate projects.

The SEC just posted a broadened definition of a dealer which may have impacts on the DeFi space, essentially requiring platforms to register and join a self-regulatory organization (like FINRA). What exactly are the specifics? How is DeFi affected?

Reports

State of Security Tokens 2023 - Q3 Report

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