Trade Employee Stock Grants as Digital Securities

Use Cases

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Use Case Category	Use Case Scope
Private Markets/Asset Tokenization and Trading	This use case involves a private company using a blockchain-based platform to enable employees to trade their stock grant digital securities with programmed trading restrictions.

Description

Key Stakeholder:

Private Company

Story:

1. The company onboards onto the platform and defines its share structure.

2. The platform tokenizes the company shares into digital securities.

3. Granted shares are allocated to employee accounts at their respective brokerages.

4. The company configures trading restrictions on the platform, like vesting periods.

5. Employees across different brokerages can trade the securities peer-to-peer.

6. All trades are recorded on the share registry maintained on the blockchain.

7. Compliance controls encoded into the securities prevent illegal insider trading.

8. The company has real-time visibility into its cap table.

Postconditions:

Employees can trade stock grants as digital securities. Trading restrictions are programmed into the securities. The share registry is maintained on-chain. Compliance controls prevent illegal practices.

Example Solution Provider:

Ownera