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Who we are:

'Smart Sherpas' is a Tokenization Platform & Advisory services firm which helps businesses to tokenize, securitize and trade their assets through the use of blockchain technology and smart contract automation.

Our mission:

#ENABLE businesses to digitize their assets and raise capital through the issuance of regulatory-compliant security tokens and security token offerings (STOs).

#EMPOWER investors around the globe through access to fractional ownership rights in the form of security tokens.

#IMPROVE existing capital markets through the use of DLT technology to disintermediate transactions, eliminate existing friction and inefficiencies.

#CREATE new markets and liquidity through unlocking the potential of the Alternative Assets class.

By the numbers

By the numbers:

Trillions of dollars of financial assets will transition to blockchain in the next 10 years.

$233

Global debt
Market (Trillion)

$100

Global Equity
Market (Trillion)

$7.7

Global Alternative
Assets (Trillion)

State of the industry

State of the industry:

"Over the past several years, rapid developments in the global economic environment have pushed asset management to the forefront of social and economic change... Between now and 2020, alternative assets are expected to grow to $13.6tn in our base case scenario and to $15.3tn [or double] in our high case scenario."

--- PWC
"Alternative asset management 2020. Fast forward to centre stage." 2016
[Digitization could] "...unlock the estimated $100 trillion of value ... over the next decade."

--- World Economic Forum
"Digital Transformation Initiative (DTI)." May, 2018
"The Most Innovative Projects Will Involve The Tokenization Of Assets. This has nothing to do with cryptocurrencies or tokens used as a payment instrument on blockchain. Representing digital or physical assets as tokens on a DLT-based network allows participants to reinvent processes and develop new business models. This is uncharted territory from both a business and technology perspective."

--- Forrester Research
"Predictions 2019: Distributed Ledger Technology". November 7, 2018.
"Asset-based coins will eventually replace small-cap stocks and IPOs"

---Kevin O'Leary
CNBC interview. March 19, 2018.
"10% of global gross domestic product (GDP) will be stored on blockchain technology by 2027"

--- World Economic Forum
"Deep Shift Technology Tipping Points and Societal Impact". September, 2015.
"Blockchain could be one of the most disruptive innovations since the advent of the internet... Although institutions are at different stages of experimentation, most now believe it could take 3-5 yrs for blockchain to have a material impact."

--- McKinsey & Company
Presentation to the US Department of the Treasury. January 5, 2017.
"Global authorities, including ESMA, should consider developing a specific set of principles, rules and regulations to deal with DLT for securities holdings and transactions, or review and modify existing laws and regulations."

--- Euroclear
"ESMA call for evidence “Investment using virtual currency or distributed ledger technology”. July 21, 2015.
"New technologies have radically altered front-office functions for investment banks, bringing unprecedented efficiency gains and new business opportunities."

--- Accenture
"Blockchain Technology: Preparing for change."
"Wall Street sees an opportunity to hack its own complexities using this new tool. Blockchain technology could help banks reduce the clutter and cost of numerous complex processes."

--- Morgan Stanley Research
"Banking on the Blockchain." May 18, 2016.
“The prize on offer is a world where all capital market participants work from common datasets, in near real time and where supporting operations are either streamlined or made redundant.”

--- Oliver Wyman
"Blockchain in Capital Markets" report. February, 2016
"In our latest 'The DNA of the CFO' study, 58% of the finance leaders identified “digital” as one of the four forces disrupting the CFO role. Blockchain technology is a significant component of this digital trend; it is one of the most fascinating and impactful digital disruptions shaking up the finance function."

--- EY
"Blockchain: How this technology could impact the CFO." 10 October 2018.
"[Token Offerings] are quickly replacing traditional VC funding models, effectively cutting out the middleman by allowing companies to raise their own funds directly. Hybrid models combining classic VC & PE funding with [Token Offerings] are also increasingly establishing themselves as a valid funding alternative."

--- PWC's ‘Strategy&’
"Initial Coin Offerings: A strategic perspective." June, 2018.

what is Security Token Offering?

What is Security Token Offering (STO)?

Token Offerings vs. IPO market

Security Tokens are essentially converted rights to an asset or to an economic benefit in the form of a programmable token powered by self-executing smart contract on a blockchain. Technological advances enabled the origination of a nascent industry of Smart Securities (or ‘SmartSec’), including debt and equity security tokens.

Security Token Offerings to the public are known as STOs. In 2018 token offerings accounted for 11%+ of the global IPO market and are effectively posing a challenge to the current status quo in the financial services industry.

Funds raised via ICOs/STOs ($21.4 Billion)
Funds raised via IPOs ($188.8 Billion)

11%

Token Offerings' Share
of Global IPO Market

Why Tokenize Assets?

The promise of DLT

Why Tokenize?

24/7/365 Market Access

Participants have direct access to market round the clock, 365 days of the year from anywhere in the world. There’s no “pre-market” or “after-hours”, the market is ALWAYS ON.

Instant Execution

The use of DLT and self-executing smart contracts enables instant settlement of transactions instead of the 2-5 day settlement period prevalent today in traditional capital markets.

Low Costs

Lowering a company’s cost of capital by leveraging the benefits of blockchain to raise funds, removing inefficient intermediaries, and bypassing the clutter and redundancy of existing financial industry infrastructure.

Automation

Security Tokens powered by self-executing smart contracts streamline complex conditional transactions via their standardization and automation, including accelerated KYC, compliance, corporate events voting, dividend distribution, and much more.

Greater Liquidity

Tokenization of previously inaccessible assets creates new markets and increases the efficiency of the existing markets via greater liquidity and improved price discovery mechanisms. More accurate asset valuations help determine the true depth of the markets.

Fractional Ownership

DLT technology allows for an unprecedented degree of fractionalizing of the ownership rights of an asset without triggering incremental cost. This makes investing in the asset more affordable to a bigger pool of retail investors, i.e. creating new markets and increasing their depth.

Regulatory Compliance

By following legal frameworks which regulate securities, STOs ensure full compliance of the offerings, while the transparency of public ledgers provides easy access for audit. It gives investors peace of mind that their record of ownership is secure and under full protection of the law.

Decentralized

DLT technology enables a decentralized record of ownership, which eliminates the need for a central authority to guarantee safety or accuracy of such a record. This provides businesses & investors with financial freedom and mobility to participate in the world economy by-passing multiple layers of costly financial intermediaries.

Democratized

Blockchain technology offers a new degree of freedom to businesses looking to raise capital. Distributed and inclusive nature of the technology empowers millions of investors around the globe and makes access to investment opportunities truly democratized, i.e. non-discriminatory.

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