Why NodeAsset

NodeAsset is an engine for tokenizing real-world assets. A bank, asset manager or distributor runs it on its own premises to take each asset through its life on the ledger: set it up, sell it, settle every order against tokenized cash, and service it until it’s redeemed. It serves two cases:

• Selling other issuers’ assets. The issuer, or its transfer agent, keeps its own register and approves each change with its own keys. NodeAsset runs the orders, the pricing, the settlement and the servicing on the venue’s side.
• Issuing your own. One organization runs both the venue and the issuer in one install, kept apart.

Deployment patterns shows who runs what in each case. Canton and the DA Registry hold the assets and move them. NodeAsset runs the business around them: the orders, the prices they settle at, the settlement against cash, the servicing, and the controls and records that prove each step. Your channels sit on top. NodeAsset holds no asset and no other party’s key. Every party keeps its own node and signs its own acts: the issuer mints, the price source prices, the investor approves its own payment. NodeAsset checks each of the venue’s own acts against the asset’s policy, its signed price and the venue’s approvals before the venue takes it.

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What the Registry gives

The DA Registry is Canton’s shared utility for tokenized assets. Its registrar defines each asset and signs every holding. It gives you the building blocks:

• holdings and credentials, which record who holds what and who may hold it;
• mint, burn and transfer, each requested and accepted;
• settlement batches, which move every leg of a trade at once.

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What running an asset also needs

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What a bank gets

• There is no gap between payment and delivery: units and tokenized cash move in one transaction, or not at all.
• NodeAsset runs on your infrastructure and never holds an issuer’s or an investor’s keys.
• Each investor sees its own holdings and orders, and nobody else’s.
• Every change has a maker and an approver on the record, and you can show that record to a regulator.
• The next asset is configuration: one vetted set of contracts serves every asset. See What you can tokenize.
• Units are standard DA Registry holdings under Canton’s token standard (CIP-56 and CIP-112), held in your custodians’ wallets, so you are not locked in.

Next: How it works.