Gold, real estate and infrastructure debt are hard to sell in parts. Here is what tokenisation gives you, where its limits are, and what to decide before issuance.
asset classes with ready contracts
issuance networks: Ethereum and TRON
currencies for settling trades
Not "raising money through blockchain", but the concrete problem of an indivisible asset.
A building, a lot of metal or an infrastructure project sells whole. An owner who needs part of the value has to exit the asset entirely.
A share in a company or a co-operative unit takes weeks to transfer, and you have to find the buyer yourself. Secondary circulation in the usual sense does not exist.
The register of owners, income payouts, changes in the roster — work that falls on the asset owner and grows with the number of participants.
Ready contracts for four asset classes and the settlement setup around them.
Gold, real estate, infrastructure debt and conditional escrow are separate contract types, each with its own issuance, redemption and transfer-restriction logic.
The roster of owners, the transfer history and current shares are visible in the dashboard and on chain. Payouts to holders are calculated from the register, not from a spreadsheet.
A token can only be transferred to someone who has passed screening. The admission rules are set by the operator and enforced by the contract rather than by agreement.
First and foremost: what exactly backs the token and who confirms it. A gold token with no independent custodian and no verifiable balance is an issuer's promise, not a claim on metal. The difference shows not at issuance but at redemption, and it is what determines what your instrument legally is. Get that answer from a lawyer before you get it from an engineer.
Second: the circulation regime. In most jurisdictions a freely tradable token on a real asset falls under securities regulation, with everything that implies for disclosure and investor eligibility. A restricted set of holders screened at entry is the path almost everyone takes, and the transfer restriction in the contract exists precisely for that.
Third: settlement. Tokenisation solves the question of the share but not the question of money: the buyer needs something to pay with and the holder something to receive income in. This is where the asset token connects to an ordinary payment setup, and that connection is what separates a working instrument from a pretty demonstration.
Three setup wizards. The operator goes through them alone — no development needed.
Organisation, team and tariff plan — the base on which the token is issued and trades are settled.
Asset class, issuance network, backing parameters, holder admission rules, transfer restrictions and the redemption procedure.
Payments and payouts for token trades: the buyer has something to pay with and the holder something to receive income in.
Run the whole issuance on a test network first, including a transfer and a redemption: contract parameters cannot always be changed after mainnet issuance, and some cannot be changed at all.
Register and run the whole issuance on a test network, transfer and redemption included. Settle the backing and the circulation regime with a lawyer before you go to mainnet.
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