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What is asset tokenisation?

Asset tokenisation is the process of representing rights to an asset, such as property, a share, goods or a fund, as digital tokens on a blockchain that can be held and transferred. A smart contract records who holds each token and enforces the rules for transfers.

Also called: tokenization, asset tokenisation

Why it matters

Tokenisation can make an asset easier to split into shares, transfer and settle, and it gives every holder the same record. The token is only as good as the legal structure behind it: who owns the asset, what the token entitles holders to, and which rules apply. In Kazakhstan the legal route is digital financial assets, so a lawyer comes before the first line of code.

1Legal wrapperUsually a company or fund holds the asset, and the tokens represent shares or claims in it.
2Digital financial assets in KazakhstanThey are issued by a resident legal entity on the platform of an operator registered with the National Bank.
3Not the AI meaningIn language models and payments, tokenisation means something else: splitting text into tokens, or replacing card numbers with stand-ins.
ExampleAn agricultural group wants to record rights to a batch of grain in an elevator as digital financial assets, so buyers can assign them without paper receipts. Lawyers set up the structure, the issue runs on the platform of a registered operator, and the elevator’s accounting system feeds stock data to it.
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