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The Bond Was Already Digital: What India’s First Tokenised Bond Actually Changes

REC’s ₹500 crore issuance under India’s regulatory sandbox is the country’s first tokenised corporate bond, but the underlying bond market was already dematerialised. The important change is therefore not that a paper bond became digital. Demat 2.0 moves the securities record onto distributed-ledger infrastructure while the RBI’s wholesale CBDC provides a digital cash leg, allowing atomic delivery-versus-payment and same-day pay-in, allotment and listing. The experiment exposes a broader...

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The Token Cannot Have Its Own Reality: What the SEC’s New Stock Rules Reveal About Asset Identity

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has created a five-year conditional exemption allowing limited on-chain trading of tokenised NMS stocks on Tokenized Securities Venues. The conditions make the underlying infrastructure lesson unusually explicit: a tokenised stock must provide the same rights and privileges as the equivalent traditional share, issuers can object to unaffiliated third-party tokenisation, smart contracts must be public and auditable, and trading in the tokenised stock...

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The Token Is Not the Product: $351 Billion-a-Day Repo Shows Where Digital Securities Actually Matter

Broadridge’s Distributed Ledger Repo platform processed an average of $351 billion of repo transactions per day in August 2026 and is expanding from tokenised US Treasury collateral to G7 securities and cross-border repo. The significance is not that a bond received a token. Repo is exposing the more valuable use case: real-time collateral identity, encumbrance, eligibility, intraday mobility and synchronized delivery-versus-payment across existing institutional workflows.

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24/5 Markets Still Need a Source of Truth

As markets move towards extended hours and agent-enabled workflows, trusted asset data cannot stop at a field value. It needs source evidence, provenance, permissions, version control and visible human review.

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What Does “Finalising” an Asset Package Mean?

Finalising turns an editable asset package into a controlled version prepared for a defined next step. It creates a clearer review baseline, but does not prove legal validity, ownership, value, transferability or settlement.

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Discovery, Negotiation, Execution and Settlement Are Different Stages

Finding an asset, discussing terms, signing a transaction and completing payment or transfer are separate stages. Learn what each stage means, where DaDepo helps today and how the workflow is intended to develop.

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Recording an Asset Is Not the Same as Legal Registration

Creating a structured DaDepo record can make an asset easier to understand, review, share and prepare for its next step. It does not replace an official filing, statutory register, title record or CSD book entry.

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What Can Third-Party Verification—and What Can It Not—Confirm?

A third-party check is only as broad as its defined scope. Learn what identity, registry, signature, financial, valuation and technical checks may confirm—and which conclusions still require separate review.

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Public, Private or NDA-Controlled: Choosing How to Share Information

Different review stages require different levels of disclosure. Learn what may be suitable for public, private or NDA-controlled sharing—and why some sensitive information should not be shared at all.

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Transferability Is Not Automatic

A documented right is not automatically transferable. Contract terms, consent requirements, applicable law, competing interests and the type of transaction can all affect whether and how a claim, contract, licence or IP right may move to another party.

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Claim Amount Is Not the Same as Asset Value

A claim may have a stated or calculated amount, but that figure is not automatically its value or likely transaction price. Learn how to distinguish the key figures and present them with appropriate context.

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What Is an Asset Passport?

A practical explanation of how an Asset Passport turns scattered documents and key facts into a structured, review-ready overview.

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