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2021

Making Illiquid Assets Liquid

Paul Ebeling
Last updated: November 2, 2021 11:25 pm
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“Today, it takes just a click to buy an airline ticket, a new or used sweater, but if you want to buy stocks or get a mortgage, transactions are time intensive and somewhat complex“– Paul Ebeling

Liquidity is a gauge of how much access an individual or business has to cash. The easier an asset be it an investment, a collectible, or even a precious metal stored in a safe somewhere can be “liquefied” for its cash value, the higher its liquidity. 

Whether it waiting for documents or settlement, many types of transactions are not instant.

Assets like gold, real estate, fine art, classic and vintage motorcars or carbon credits are more difficult to transfer, often obligating buyers and sellers to contend with regs, lots of paperwork and lengthy procedures.

So by representing physical assets as digital tokens on a distributed digital ledger or blockchain, it is now possible to unlock the value of real-world assets and to exchange them in real time.

Payments are the backbone of global commerce

Today’s cross-border payment processes are fraught with time delays, complexity, and inefficiencies.

Payments are the backbone of global commerce, but payment in real time has yet to be achieved. Whether it is payments or other asset classes, the ability to move real-world assets onto a blockchain offers the advantages of a secure digital platform, while retaining the characteristics of the asset.

Securitization is the process through which contractual obligations such as mortgages, car loans, personal debt or receivables are pooled, and their cash flows are sold as standard units to investors.

Since the early 1970s this process has become more common and broadly applied. But “tokenization” goes steps further. Instead of restructuring cash flows like securitization, it monetizes the “right to use.”

Digitization of assets is a process in which the rights to an asset are converted into a digital token on a blockchain. Ownership rights are transmitted and traded on a digital platform, and the real-world assets on the blockchain are represented by digital tokens.

Many types of financial assets are already digital, such as when cash is represented as numbers on a screen. But tokens enable certain assets to move swiftly across digital platforms or networks.

Opportunities for cross-border trade increase as geographic barriers are removed. Tokenization can unlock new markets for previously frozen, underutilized, or illiquid assets and offers possibilities for new types of fractional ownership.

Token-based assets are rapidly gaining widespread acceptance.

The ICO (initial coin offering) market is the case in point. This new method of crowdfunding recently broke the $5-B barrier globally. ICOs involve the creation and sale of cryptocurrency, or tokens, to fund projects.

With an ICO, a project has a viable alternative to the traditional routes of obtaining money through banks or venture capitalists, which typically involve a lot of time and sharing of control.

ICOs also bypass the limits of traditional crowdfunding by introducing a secondary market to their funders. This secondary market is why, despite ICOs generally being considered high-risk ventures, many people are willing to take the chance in the hopes of large payoffs later.

Digital currencies are another area that has grown quickly.

Recently, some countries have begun looking into creating a new form of money called a CBCD (central-bank digital currency). The goal is to complement electronic payment modes from commercial entities with a state-sponsored solution that is as inclusive and ubiquitous as traditional banknotes and coins used to be.

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Have a prosperous day, Keep the Faith!

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By Paul Ebeling
Paul A. Ebeling, a polymath, excels, in diverse fields of knowledge Including Pattern Recognition Analysis in Equities, Commodities and Foreign Exchange, and he is the author of "The Red Roadmaster's Technical Report on the US Major Market Indices, a highly regarded, weekly financial market commentary. He is a philosopher, issuing insights on a wide range of subjects to over a million cohorts. An international audience of opinion makers, business leaders, and global organizations recognize Ebeling as an expert.   
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