Thomson Reuters
Traders work on the floor of the NYSE in New York - but not the global, Malta-based stock exchange in question.
- A global trade market for decentralized assets is being created in Malta.
- Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency trading platform, blockchain investment platform Neufund, and a subsidary of the Malta Stock Exchange, MSX, plan to launch the exchange in late 2018.
- The project aims to be the primary regulated global trading platform for digital assets including cryptocurrencies and equity tokens worldwide.
A global trade market for decentralized assets like cryptocurrencies and equity tokens is taking root in Malta, the tiny European country that has positioned itself as a pioneer in the blockchain industry.
Three financial institutions have partnered to create the exchange, which aims to become the leading issuance platform for security tokens, the digital crypto-assets used primarily for investment purposes.
Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency trading platform, blockchain investment platform Neufund, and a subsidary of the Malta Stock Exchange, MSX, plan to launch the exchange in late 2018.
The project's end goal is to tokenize traditional financial assets and to provide a primary global platform for issuing and trading securities over the blockchain, Binance CEO Chanpeng Zhao said in a statement.
Finance platform CapLinked estimates the market cap for equity tokens could skyrocket as high as $1 trillion by 2020.
If so, then Malta's forthcoming decentralized global stock exchange could position itself as a financial heavyweight in the newfound crypto trading industry.
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