A Brief #history of Tokens: A journey from the Past to the Distant Future
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▻https://radikal.ru/lfp/s018.radikal.ru/i525/1202/d8/78a73615128b.jpg/htmTokens have come a long way from being a fancy concept developed by computer geeks dreaming about total decentralization to a billion dollar industry involving world-leading companies like BMW and Rakuten and various governments, including India. Lately, there have been a series of developments concerning the #tokenization of various assets, ranging from stocks to art pieces and everything in between. Companies use these tokens as bonuses and loyalty points, tokenize their stocks, or some go even further by listing them on various exchanges. Is this becoming a trend? If so how did we get here and what is the next step?What are tokens used for?Regardless of what platform they work on, the concept remains basically the (...)
