Episode 134
Mason Borda (Tokensoft) on the convergence of tokens and capital markets (EP.134)
On The Brink with Castle Island · Castle Island Ventures
October 5, 20201h 3m
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Show Notes
Mason Borda, CEO and cofounder of Tokensoft, joins the show. In this episode:
- 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