RegCrypto — Tokenization Assurance Framework

    Assurance for tokenised real-world assets.

    The Tokenization Assurance Framework sits between issuers, investors, regulators, custodians and venues as an independent layer. It does not ask whether a token was compliant on the day it was issued. It asks whether the asset should have been tokenised at all, under what governance framework, and whether it remains safe to hold.

    Cabier does not issue, underwrite, appraise, custody, market or distribute tokenised assets, and does not provide investment advice. TAF scores are governance and disclosure assessments — not credit ratings, valuations, fairness opinions or investment recommendations.

    The assurance gap

    Investor harm is not a code problem

    Losses in tokenised and structured real-world assets have overwhelmingly followed governance, liquidity, valuation and disclosure failure — conditions that pre-date the token and outlast it. Contract audits do not reach them.

    Certification is point-in-time

    Existing tokenisation compliance work answers whether an instrument met securities requirements at issuance. It does not answer whether the asset should have been tokenised, or whether it remains safe to hold.

    Nobody assesses suitability of the asset

    The question of whether an asset was a suitable candidate for tokenisation at all is asked by the sponsor, whose interest is issuance, and by nobody with an obligation to holders.

    Investors have no independent signal

    Holders rely on the issuer's own disclosure. There is no continuing, independent position they can read alongside it.

    Four layers, examined in order

    Most tokenisation review begins at layer two. Investor harm begins at layer one.

    Layer 1

    Asset

    The real-world asset, its title, structure, cash flow and encumbrances — the part that fails first and is examined last.

    Layer 2

    Tokenisation

    The instrument, register, transfer restrictions and custody arrangements that carry the interest.

    Layer 3

    Assurance

    Independent assessment of readiness and holder protection, refreshed rather than issued once.

    Layer 4

    Certificate

    A scoped, dated assurance output that names what was examined, what was not, and on what basis.

    Two scores

    Tokenization Readiness Score

    Fifteen categories across legal ownership, structure, valuation, liquidity, suitability, classification, financial-crime controls and custody. Answers whether the asset was a candidate for tokenisation in the first place.

    Open TRS

    Investor Protection Score

    Nine categories across redemption, lock-up, secondary market, insolvency treatment, independent trustee, reporting, distributions, holder voting and valuation independence. Answers what holders actually have.

    Open IPS

    Framework modules

    Phase 1 is live. Continuous monitoring, early warning and scenario simulation are on the published roadmap and are not presented as current capability.

    Tokenization Readiness Score (TRS)

    A fifteen-category assessment of whether the asset was a suitable candidate for tokenisation, and under what governance framework.

    Live — Phase 1

    Investor Protection Score (IPS)

    A nine-category assessment of the exit, information and recourse rights actually available to holders.

    Live — Phase 1

    Digital Assurance Certificate

    The client-facing output: scope, period, method, limitations and the two scored positions, dated and re-issued on cadence.

    Live — Phase 1

    Early Warning Dashboard

    Deterioration signals across governance, liquidity, valuation and disclosure, surfaced before an issuer discloses them.

    Roadmap

    Continuous Monitoring Engine

    Subscription monitoring of certified assets against operational, litigation and regulatory signal, with the certificate position updated rather than reprinted.

    Roadmap

    Failure Simulator

    Scenario stress over redemption pressure, valuation shock, sponsor insolvency and secondary-market absence.

    Roadmap

    Sequencing

    Phase 1

    Foundation

    Readiness rubric, protection rubric and certificate format in place; assessment run as a hybrid manual and structured workflow with pilot issuers.

    Phase 2

    Scoring automation

    Protection scoring automated; Early Warning Dashboard MVP; first litigation, news and regulatory feeds bound to certified assets.

    Phase 3

    Continuous monitoring

    Subscription monitoring engine live; operational resilience position integrated into the certificate.

    Phase 4

    Scenario simulation

    Failure simulator across redemption, valuation, sponsor-insolvency and liquidity-absence scenarios; framework published as a named standard.

    Scope, evidence access and re-assessment cadence are set per engagement. Commercial terms are quoted against scope. Related surfaces: Settlement Assurance Board, ORS methodology.

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