Stephen McKeon is a partner at Collaborative Fund, a venture fund investing in blockchain-based financial infrastructure with an eye towards the future of our financial markets. McKeon is also a finance professor at the University of Oregon, and one of the leading thinkers in the security token space. In addition to his role at Collaborative Fund and the University of Oregon, McKeon is also the chief strategy advisor at Security Token Academy.

In this interview with STA's Derek Edward Schloss, McKeon walks through The Security Token Thesis, a paper he published in May 2018. In the paper, McKeon argues that for a number of traditional assets, security tokens will simply dominate previous methods of reporting and trading ownership. Over the course of the episode, Stephen McKeon and Derek Edward Schloss walk through the eight "killer features" that form what McKeon describes as the thesis powering the security token movement.

Stephen McKeon- Collaborative Fund (Episode #2)

Nick Cowan is the CEO and Founder of the Gibraltar Stock Exchange Group, a financial services portfolio that includes the Gibraltar Stock Exchange, the Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange, JUNO Fund Administration, FORT Advisory Firm, and HASHTACS, a fintech subsidiary and developer of the proprietary STACS blockchain and protocol. The Gibraltar Stock Exchange aims to be one of the world’s first regulated stock exchanges to list and trade security tokens.

In this interview with STA's Derek Edward Schloss, Cowan walks through the launch of Gibraltar Stock Exchange in 2014, Gibraltar’s blockchain initiatives, and working closely with Gibraltar’s regulators and legislators to create a regulated security token exchange.

Nick Cowan- Gibraltar Stock Exchange (Episode #3)

David Hoffman is the COO at RealT, an Ethereum-based platform for tokenizing real property ownership in the United States. RealT empowers investors around the globe to buy into the US real estate market through compliant, fractional, tokenized ownership–powered by blockchain. RealT’s first tokenized properties are single-family homes in Detroit, Michigan.

In this interview with STA's Derek Edward Schloss, Hoffman walks through the RealT platform, the launch of its first tokenized properties in Detroit.  RealT's unique opportunity for overseas investors, and why RealT decided to tokenize on the Ethereum blockchain—including its platform integration of MakerDao’s Dai stable token.

David Hoffman- RealT (Episode #4)

Luc Falempin is the CEO at Tokeny, a Luxembourg-based tokenization platform for regulated securities. Tokeny is a technology provider and end-to-end platform to issue, manage, and transfer regulated security tokens.

In this interview with STA's Derek Edward Schloss, Falempin walks through the Tokeny platform, and where Tokeny is seeing the most tokenization for demand right now. Falempin also discusses why he believes Ethereum is the most influential blockchain for security tokens today. His team is also researching projects like Facebook’s Libra for issuing security tokens in the future. Finally, Falempin discusses Euronext the largest stock exchange in continental Europe. Euronext recently invested and purchased a significant equity stake in Tokeny—and what that investment means for the future of Tokeny, and Tokeny-powered security tokens.

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