What Are Security Tokens: History Repeats

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Imagine you want to invest in a big successful company like Tesla or Amazon you love the cyber truck and believe it’ll be successful, but you’re less excited by the model 3 where competition is heating up. You want to participate in the lightning growth of the cloud. It’s
the next big thing, but you don’t believe Amazon has a chance in the streaming business.

Wouldn’t it be great. If you could invest in the success of specific business ideas? very soon that’ll be a reality. Introducing security tokens. But wait, isn’t crypto a scam, fraudulent ICO’s (initial coin offering), shady exchanges, fake wallets, Ponzi schemes, pump
and dumpers? Clearly its headed nowhere.

Let’s go back in time a little to the 1600s. The first equities were an experiment introduced by ship owners to raise Capital but in 1720 the south sea company failed to pay dividends causing a market crash the losses were so significant that the UK banned shares until 1825 these days we forget about the early turmoil that followed equities Inception and we’re experiencing the same path with token offerings. Early adoption uncontrolled growth and height, and the inevitable market failure.

This is where we are today. Regulators are stepping in and ICO’s are evolving into STO’s, making it safer for everyone.