Going Forward: Vision & strategy
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In a world with an economic volatility due to the global pandemic of Covid-19, digital assets (including cryptocurrencies and other cryptoassets such as NFTs) will be very attractive to investors seeking yield. As a result, TradFi players will undoubtedly embrace digital assets by progressively integrating them into their alternative investment strategies, and then leverage the power of DeFi.
2021 was a year in which institutional and retail cryptocurrencies adoption, and trading in particular, has grown significantly:
However, investment of professional investors in digital assets are mainly conducted through expensive Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) or trackers. This raises a problem as these products do not provide direct access nor custody on their underlying digital assets. This has a tremendous impact on investors as it makes them miss out on the full potential of cryptocurrencies and Decentralized assets Tokens (dTokens).
In this context, SMAT seeks to create an all-in-one platform for institutional and semi-institutional investors and to provide them with all the necessary tools to access smoothly the crypto-assets and DeFi ecosystems, build trust, instill confidence and make sure that everyone can invest in a compliant and transparent manner.
For that purpose, SMAT is developing:
its own proprietary wallet technology, allowing professional investors to create their own white- label wallet (the “master wallet”) and in turn allowing them to create and manage “sub-wallets” for each of their clients;
a custodian solution of digital assets approved by the Swiss supervisory authority (FINMA), allowing a safe and secured safekeeping of the digital assets on behalf of the clients;
a tokenization solution and a token infrastructure, allowing professional investors to access and invest in a large panel of tokenized real-world assets in a secure, transparent, and more liquid environment.
SMAT further aims to integrate DeFi protocols on its platform and enable its users to leverage solutions such as staking, liquidity providing, collateralized loans etc. This will allow SMAT users to achieve enhanced returns over time.
Finally, SMAT will provide a solution to onboard real-world assets on-chain at scale and allow DeFi and TradFi actors to invest in income-generating real-world assets while maintaining exposure to crypto assets.
SMAT aims to unleash the full potential of DeFi by replicating TradFi’s functionalities to onboard the world’s leading regulated and professionals' investors. TradFi will always have a major role to play in the ecosystem and it is crucial to strike a balance between centralisation and decentralisation in order to reap the best of both worlds.
