“Swarm’s free tokenization model and open infrastructure were designed to lower barriers and make it easy for local experts to plug in. We’re thrilled to partner with the team at BlackBox Labs as they leverage their expertise and our technology to help unlock the multi-billion...
We’ve always imagined Swarm as a self-sustaining decentralized network. By necessity, however, it didn’t start this way. The initial release of the Swarm token issuance and fundraising platform was on a private blockchain with a rigorous semi-manual process for qualifying investors and the investment opportunities...
By delivering a DSO issuance model sans upfront fees for those who would bring value to this burgeoning ecosystem, we are doing our part to pave the way to mass adoption of digitized securities and fractional ownership of any conceivable asset....
As we enter 2019 in the midst of what some are calling the crypto winter, the chatter in blockchain circles is (rightly) all about BUIDL. Teams that have been hard at work while the market crashes are announcing the new features, capabilities, and technologies they...
Access, inclusion, community governance, internal tool-sets with bird names — these are things that Swarm loves. Also among those things is a special reverence and affection for Developers. An affection perhaps not sufficiently exercised to date. We’ve got our own crack stack of developers doing...
As we covered in previous posts in this series, trading in security tokens is strictly controlled by laws and regulations designed to prevent money laundering, funneling funds to illegal activities, and to protect less sophisticated investors from being victims of unscrupulous solicitation of funds....
As the blockchain industry evolves at a frenetic pace, it is essential for Swarm to be adaptable so as to sustain the network over the long-term. Community governance remains at the very core of Swarm, as much as the decentralized blockchain technology underpinning it....
MAP (Market Access Protocol) is a protocol that facilitates regulatory compliant trading of security tokens. MAP provides a solution to the liquidity problem and trade of tokenized securities, maintaining privacy, and introducing qualification portability between environments. In our previous piece on how MAP provides a compliant security...
This is the first in a series of blog posts, taking a closer look at each of the core participants in the security token landscape, the challenges they are facing, and how Swarm’s Market Access Protocol (MAP) can help resolve some of these. In this...
A non-profit platform providing compliant access to formerly exclusive investment opportunities, Swarm delivers MAP: an open protocol supplying a sound framework for the whole security token industry to develop and grow....