$66 Million Building to Be Tokenized on Ethereum Blockchain in Record Deal

For Patrick O’Meara, there is a world of difference between security tokens and tokenized securities.

A security token merely means an issuer is selling a crypto token in compliance with securities laws. But with a tokenized security, “it’s a whole different world,” where blockchain technology gives investors an unprecedented level of transparency, said O’Meara, chairman and chief executive officer of Inveniam Capital Partners (ICP).

ICP is about to put this idea to the test. The company plans to tokenize some $260 million in four private real estate and debt transactions, starting with a WeWork-occupied building in

downtown Miami, Florida. Announced Tuesday, the firm intends to sell tokenized shares of the building, valued at $65.5 million, likely the largest piece of real estate to be financed this way to date.

The company placed a deposit on the building last month using an unspecified amount of bitcoin. Once the other three deals are finalized, ICP will be auctioning off shares in the assets, represented by ERC-20 tokens on the ethereum blockchain, in the coming weeks.

Shares in the four assets will be sold through what is known as a Dutch auction, meaning potential investors will place their own bids outlining how many shares they want, what price they would like to pay per share and which cryptocurrency they would like to pay with.

Inveniam will accept bids denominated in the top 50 cryptocurrencies by market cap at launch.

When the sale concludes, tokens will be distributed in order from the highest bids to the lowest, O’Meara told CoinDesk.

“The price that every bidder pays will be based on the lowest price of the last successful bid dependent upon the bidder’s fiat-to-crypto conversion rate limit,” a press release noted.

In order to participate, potential buyers must hold at least $10 million in crypto, with a minimum purchase of $500,000. The sale will be conducted in accordance with private placement rules issued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, according to Inveniam.

Tokenized transparency

Perhaps more ambitious than the auction, however, is what ICP intends to do with the tokens representing each share.

A Wall Street veteran, O’Meara explained that typically, shares come with large amounts of data, from how they are created, as well as data collected through its life and performance – which could be 20 or 30 years in the case of some debt offerings. ICP will put all of this data onto its platform and associate it with a token, he said.

“We built our entire software, our stack, everything we do, the way we tokenize the instrument is so the enormous amount of data that’s associated with the financial instrument … can be aggregated and is attached to the token,” he explained.

One of the benefits to collecting all of this data into one system is that it is suddenly “uniquely searchable,” he said.

At present, legal documents are converted into PDFs or similar file types, which make them difficult to search through.

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