Answers
Direct answers to the questions the desk hears.
Each entry opens with the answer itself — forty to sixty words, liftable — and then the context. Written for principals and CFOs, and for the assistants they increasingly ask first.
What is a digital asset treasury company?
A digital asset treasury company is a business whose strategy includes holding digital assets as a significant balance-sheet position, with the market valuing the company partly on that position.
How does a company add digital assets to its treasury?
In four steps, in order: a board-approved policy stating the allocation logic and limits; qualified custody with controls and audit arrangements; execution through institutional OTC channels sized to avoid moving the market; and disclosure that lets investors price the position.
What does it mean to tokenize a real-world asset?
Tokenizing a real-world asset means representing it — credit, property, a fund interest, a commodity — as a transferable digital instrument that carries its ownership rights and transfer restrictions natively.
How does a reverse takeover (RTO) work in Canada?
In a Canadian RTO, a private company combines with an existing listed entity and its shareholders take control, making the private business public without a conventional IPO.
What is a token financing?
A token financing is a capital raise in which the instrument sold is a token or token-linked right rather than conventional equity.
What makes a token economy sustainable?
A token economy is sustainable when the value paid out to participants is sourced from outside the token itself — customers, merchants, contracted revenue — rather than from emission of the instrument the rewards are paid in.
What is a mandate-backed venture?
A mandate-backed venture is a company that holds a contracted build-out mandate from an established corporation before it raises institutional capital — contracted revenue before the round, not a pipeline slide after it.
How can global investors access Indian ventures?
Institutional routes into Indian ventures run through structured vehicles — commonly domiciled in GIFT City, India's international financial services centre — with FEMA and FDI compliance built into the wrapper.
How does building a technology venture re-rate a public company?
A market re-rates a parent company when its technology venture meets four conditions: it is separable (its own entity and cap table), earns external revenue, is disclosed as a segment, and has credible management.
What is GIFT City and why does it matter for cross-border capital?
GIFT City — Gujarat International Finance Tec-City — is India's international financial services centre, regulated by the IFSCA.