Neufund, the blockchain-based equity fundraising platform, has just announced that it is partnering with European crypto exchange, BitBay, allowing investors to buy and sell equity tokens with fiat currencies.
The security token market will reach a value of $10 trillion by 2020, according to a study conducted by Polymath. Tokenized securities will bring much needed liquidity to traditional investment assets, including equity instruments. In welcoming the partnership with BitBay, Neufund takes another step towards becoming the first end-to-end primary issuance platform for security tokens, in particular, equity tokens.
Today’s announcement follows Neufund’s partnerships with the Malta Stock Exchange and Binance. Neufund also recently announced that seven companies from five countries have signed up to conduct Equity Token Offerings through Neufund, and more than a thousand investors have pledged future investments. BitBay, whose tradable fiat pairs include the Polish Zloty, the Euro and the U.S. Dollar, will be the first trading partner enabling companies to liquidate their equity tokens against fiat currency.
BitBay has recently moved its operations to Malta, while Neufund has announced its partnership with MSX, a subsidiary of Malta Stock Exchange. The aim is to create the first fully regulated exchange, trading crypto assets alongside traditional financial instruments. Malta, an EU member state has recently passed 3 bills regulating DLT.
Zoe Adamovicz
We welcome BitBay among our partners with great excitement”, commented Zoe Adamovicz, CEO and Co-founder at Neufund. “It is Neufund’s mission to make fundraising more inclusive and easier for companies, while bringing investors more liquid investment assets, and our partnership will enable investors to liquidate their investments directly into fiat currencies.
Our partnership with Neufund aims to bring security tokens to BitBay’s everyday operations in a fully compliant and regulated way. We are proud to be on the frontline of implementing equity tokens into 24/7 crypto trading systems,” added Paweł Sobków, CEO of Pinewood (operator of Bitbay.net), on today’s announcement.