Broadcasts.com - "Mason Borda (Tokensoft) on the convergence of tokens and capital markets (EP.134)" (On The Brink with Castle Island)

Published: Oct. 5, 2020, 10 a.m.

Mason Borda, CEO and cofounder of Tokensoft, joins the show. In this episode:\\xa0

Tokensoft\'s ERC-1404 standard
Why put securities on chain?
Commonalities between the spirit of securities laws and the values of crypto markets
The possibility of making stock transactions into a real time phenomenon
Transparency through registered security offerings versus on-chain cash flows and freely viewable contracts
How on-chain tokens are transparent and where they should volunteer additional disclosures
Tokensoft\'s Arcoin and INX issuances
Mason\'s response to the critiques of the INX offering
Why regular companies don\'t just "hold their own securities on a centralized database"
DTCC explained for Bitcoiners
How Mason thinks about securities regulation today as compared with 2017
Is the \'complexity defense\' sufficient to ward off securities regulators?
Mason\'s desired approach to the market from the SEC
Lessons that the SEC can take from MAS (Singapore) and FINMA (Switzerland)
The outstanding barriers to security tokens gaining liquidity and market share