Funding Platform SeriesOne Partners With Polymath to Use Its Security Token Protocol

United States-based crowdfunding platform SeriesOne has partnered with security token protocol platform Polymath, according to a press release published on March 19.

The new partnership intends to create a digital securities offering ecosystem via the SeriesOne platform.

According to the press release, the partnership between SeriesOne and Polymath will let token issuers create and manage regulatory-compliant security tokens from the initial offering stage to trading on a secondary exchange.

SeriesOne CEO Michael Mildenberger expressed confidence that Polymath's security token protocol, ST-20, is set to improve the process of raising capital on the platform.

Polymath's ST-20 protocol is a token standard that is designed specifically for issuing and managing security tokens.

Unlike ERC-20 ST-20 "Embeds regulatory requirements into the tokens themselves, restricting trading to verified participants only."

Polymath explains that its ST-20 standard is a solution to the problem of regulatory compliance when dealing with securities, since the protocol enables restrictions for policies such as Know Your Customer and Anti-money laundering.

According to Polymath, ST-20 tokens are backward compatible with ERC-20, providing interoperability with most existing blockchain infrastructure.

The partnership was revealed just as SeriesOne officially announced that it is partnering with major South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb to build a digital securities exchange.

Recently, blockchain security firm and wallet service BitGo announced support for Blockchain Capital's ERC-20 security token BCAP, launched in a $10 million initial coin offering back in April 2017.