Questions
Questions institutions ask first
Deployment, data residency, upgrade authority and where the perimeter sits — the ones that come up before anyone looks at an API.
Frequently asked questions
What is tokenization infrastructure?
The layer between a financial product and a distributed ledger: the contracts that represent the security and enforce who may hold it, the service that turns business decisions into confirmed transactions, the ledger that records effective ownership, and the indexing that proves the two agree. Tokenistry licenses it as five modules so it is not rebuilt per issuer or per asset class.
Does our data move to a vendor platform?
No. The default deployment is single-tenant inside your own cloud account, in your region. You hold the database, the custody workspace, the private keys, the contract administrative permissions and the RPC credentials. There is no shared Tokenistry control plane and no Tokenistry-operated service in the data path. Tokenistry supplies software, deployment artifacts, configuration and the engineering to run them.
Are the contracts upgradeable, and who controls that?
Yes, deliberately. Tokens are beacon proxies, so one upgrade migrates an issuer's whole book instead of requiring a migration per token. Upgrade authority sits on the beacon alone — no token role can reach it — and both the admin and upgrade authorities are held by you, not by Tokenistry.
Which chains does it run on?
EVM networks, and only EVM today. Internal chain adapters keep the domain modules chain-agnostic, so another distributed ledger means a new adapter rather than a rewrite — those follow as customer engagements call for them.
Does Tokenistry act as issuer, custodian or KYC provider?
No. Tokenistry engineers the technology layer only. It does not provide legal, regulatory, KYC or AML services, does not hold client assets, and does not take a position in your regulatory perimeter. It integrates with the custodians, KYC providers and processes you already use.
We already have a tokenization platform. Is there anything here for us?
Individual Core modules can be adopted alongside a platform you keep; the Investment Ledger and Indexing Engine are particularly suitable for standalone adoption. Where the constraint is specialist throughput rather than software, blockchain engineering adds engineers working to a design owned by the architects who built Core.
How does an engagement start?
With an Architecture & Infrastructure Assessment: target architecture, custody and transaction strategy, chain choices, which modules are actually required, and an honest build-versus-buy answer — including where the answer is that you should build it yourself.