CHAPTER 10

Information Currency Explainer

Making Information About Assets Into Currency

Now businesses can make Information about assets into currency by tokenizing those assets, and in this process, “speak” them into existence in a new Value language.

The tokenized asset is an asset reborn into a virtual representation of Value. Once that Value is Information represented as a virtual token asset, it has its own identity on the blockchain and an assignment to its owner’s ID address. This way, assets (in the form of tokens) can be sent directly from one owner ID to another owner ID. Unlike money as we know it, a tokenized asset does not need to pass through a medium of exchange (like the dollar), or through a bank, prior to its assignment to another ...

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