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Meritz and Canton Sign Exploratory Korea Tokenization MoU
Meritz Securities and the Canton Foundation agreed to study Korean asset tokenization, institutional blockchain infrastructure and possible cross-border collateral applications.
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Meritz Securities and the Canton Foundation announced a strategic memorandum of understanding on October 14. The parties plan to evaluate tokenization of Korean financial assets and whether Canton’s privacy-enabled infrastructure could support institutional activity in the country’s capital markets. The agreement is exploratory: it does not launch a tokenized security, trading venue or production service.
The proposed cross-border work could involve global institutional partners and sovereign-grade debt assets. The parties also intend to study whether tokenized high-quality liquid assets could move between execution and clearing environments or serve as institutional collateral. Any expansion is expected to proceed in stages and remain subject to South Korea’s developing digital-asset rules. The announcement provides no implementation timetable or named asset for issuance.
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- //The MoU covers domestic financial assets, institutional infrastructure and potential cross-border applications.
- //The partners may study tokenized sovereign-grade debt and the use of liquid tokenized assets as collateral.
- //No security, live service, transaction or implementation date was announced.
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