xtinepink Posted February 7, 2018 #1 Posted February 7, 2018 Anyone heard of a security token? Security tokens are actual financial securities, like shares or equity in traditional assets, startups, venture funds and even real estate. Security tokens provide investors various rights and obligations in the company whose securities they are purchasing. There are actually two tokens and the most common used are utility tokens. There are two distinctive classes of tokens: I) Utility tokens They serve as a (future) access to a product or service and can be best compared to a gift card or software license. II) Security tokens These tokens constitute an investment contract, where the main use-case, and the reason for the contributors to buy the tokens, is the anticipation of future profits in form of dividends, revenue share or (most commonly) price appreciation. You can read more here: https://medium.com/@argongroup/8-important-things-to-know-about-security-tokens-token-regulation-3d548a1a6367 Last year was the rise of ICOs maybe this year we can see more STOs or Security Token Offerings. What are your thoughts to this? How will it affect the crypto world? Only the future knows 😆
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