Government of India is gearing up for largest IPO ever for LIC(Life insurance corporation) to divest it's stake. LIC manages more than 450 billion USD of assets. The initial process has started and IPO is most probably will happen in 2021.
A part of shares will be bought by a financial institution EGW capital which will tokenize the shares in Digibyte blockchain. These shares then be freely tradable.
You will not need a demat account and KYC, as EGW will handle that. NRI and foreign investors can easily buy LIC share using tokenized share. 1 token will be equal to 1 share.
EGW capital may bid for US $25 million (Rs 190 crore) worth of LIC’s equity shares.
EGW capital is in process of tokenizing real state, bonds and stocks.
Digibyte has surged more than 7 times since crash in March.
Digibyte founder once had a heated exchange with binance and it's CEO as they didn't listed there token in Binance and Poloniex delisted there token.
He accused them of centralization and wrong practices related to listing fees. Even after desertion by top Centralised exchange the project is sustained and has made great progress in recent times.
If LIC tokenization succeed, in future all IPO may directly be conducted on Blockchain and instead of demat account investor may need only a crypto wallet. But regulatory hurdles must be passed to ensure this. May be after world heals from Corona pandemic rapid switch to Blockchain based financial products may happen.
Opening Demat accounts and choosing brokers is cumbersome process , solution using Blockchain can make the process fast and simple.
Tokenized security may grow rapidly by next 3-4 years once technology matures.
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