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🧠 [Analysis] Some ideas to unlock programmability in security tokens - Jesus Rodriguez

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Jan 15, 2019 ⋅  1 min read

In this piece, Jesus Rodriguez analyses the crypto-security tokens market's development, noting that developers often let programmability of user interfaces take a back seat to regulation compliance. While acknowledging the need of regulation compliance, Rodriguez outlines a path to making programmability a bigger developer focus, first noting the benefits of programmability : it expands the value of the entire ecosystem. Instead of isolated applications, focusing on programmability--like interopability--allows for the meshing, borrowing, and conjoining of networks. In fact, dApps would be a huge winner from increased programmability in secuity tokens. Rodriguez also issues a warning: if programmability does not happen, incumbents like Fidelity or Goldman Sachs can clean up the market and push out innovation. Moving forward, Rodriguez calls for three developments: building interchangeable program models for regulation compliance across the ecosystem, integration with current blockchain protocols, and open source distribution. Without development in this space, the future of crypto-securities lies in doubt.

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