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Eight questions to answer before a tokenized asset moves toward market.
Use the checklist to test investor rights, economics, evidence, operating responsibility, distribution, and exit before infrastructure or launch commitments become expensive to reverse.
The checklist
- What legal and economic rights will the investor hold, and which documents make those rights effective?
- Who is the intended investor, and why does the asset, return profile, risk, and holding period fit that mandate?
- How will the asset be verified, controlled or held, serviced, valued, reported, transferred, and redeemed?
- Which regulated, specialist, distribution, custody, settlement, or servicing roles are essential—and who owns each responsibility?
- What evidence, approvals, controls, and counterparties must be in place before infrastructure or launch decisions harden?
- Which investor or partner conversations should happen now, and which should wait until the proposition can withstand diligence?
- What remains uncertain after the first pass, and how should those unknowns be tested next?
- Is the next responsible milestone technology selection, specialist review, a controlled diligence process, redesign, or a decision to stop?
How to use it
Answer each question in plain language and identify the evidence behind the answer. Any material disagreement across the legal, commercial, operating, and investor narratives should become an owned issue before wider commitments.
Read the full investor diligence frameworkWhen to bring in outside support
- The asset is identified, but holder rights or the investor proposition are still changing
- A platform or provider is being selected before the operating responsibilities are agreed
- Investor or partner interest is growing faster than the evidence and diligence materials