Benefits of Bringing Real World Assets to the Blockchain

1. BENEFITS OF BRINGING REAL-WORLD ASSETS TO THE BLOCKCHAIN Blockchain technology will realize trillions of dollars in valuation through asset tokenization. Traditional financial institutions and the Horizon Exchange vary significantly in features, benefits, and limitations. Horizon Exchange allows users to create their assets by staking the platform’s native token, HZN. ON-CHAIN EXPOSURE TO REAL-WORLD ASSETS • Horizon Protocol offers an ecosystem where users, traders, and investors bypass traditional barriers, trade and invest in cryptocurrency and real-world assets on the same platform using synthetic on-chain assets. • The power unlocked by Oracles connecting these various asset classes’ price feeds to the blockchain enables Horizon Protocol to provide an alternative to the multi-trillion dollar valuation of the traditional derivatives market on the blockchain. ENHANCING LIQUIDITY FOR TRADITIONALLY ILLIQUID ASSETS • Tokenizing real-world assets has the potential to unlock the high value of highly illiquid assets such as fine art. However, these assets face a significant disadvantage due to the lack of an available market of buyers. • Blockchain will eliminate the problem of transactional drawbacks and DeFi platforms can unlock the liquidity of such an asset by representing it as a fraction that can be distributed across millions of fractional owners. ACCESSIBILITY There are considerable financial and regulatory limitations against the majority of investors when reaching for high upside assets such as collectible sports cars, multi-owned real estate, or the financing of big-budget films. • Bringing such assets to the blockchain essentially pools in a group of investors willing to purchase or fund the asset. Tokenization could open up investment in assets to a much wider audience thanks to reduced minimum investment amounts and periods. • TRANSPARENCY • There is a complete shortage of reliable information regarding how to own and benefit from high-value assets, in addition to other essential data such as the sale history, ownership history, returns, and metrics needed by investors to vouch for the quality of an asset. • Recording these assets on the blockchain (or tokenizing) can grant asset tracking and auditing capabilities to any interested parties, regardless of their respective demographics. • The ability to track such assets on a public blockchain also reduces security risks, lack of trust, incidents of fraud, and impersonification. VERDICT: HORIZON PROTOCOL AS THE STANDARD FOR ASSET TOKENIZATION With more research into blockchains, decentralization, and financial ecosystems, researchers have come up with unique and innovative ways to bridge the gap between decentralized finance and real-world assets. Horizon Protocol is a robust platform for deploying on-chain synthetic assets that represent the real-world economy. A DEFI PLATFORM FACILITATING THE CREATION OF ON-CHAIN SYNTHETIC ASSETS REPRESENTING THE REAL ECONOMY HorizonProtocol.com twitter.com/HorizonProtocol t.me/HorizonProtocol github.com/Horizon-Protocol HorizonProtocol.medium.com reddit.com/r/HorizonProtocol