Protocol / 04

Asset and custody model

A stock token is an on-chain representation managed by the trading owner. Its economic backing depends on product-specific issuer, fund, broker, and custody arrangements.

Evidence scope · implementation, public chain state, third-party reports, operator disclosures

Three records, three authorities

On-chain verified

Token ledger

ERC-20 balances, mint and burn events, proxy configuration, and transfers.

Operator disclosed

Broker / fund ledger

Underlying securities and cash sit outside the supplied contracts.

Third-party assessed

Attestation layer

Audit and zkPass evidence can assess selected controls or data.

Product-specific custody

General stock trading, DigiFT-linked Pre-IPO offerings, and the Kimi offshore USD fund use different legal and custody descriptions. This documentation does not collapse them into one “all assets at one broker” claim.

Operator disclosed. Institutional brokerage custody is described by DeShare, but complete public account-level reserve statements were not supplied.

What holders should verify