"Regulated assets
Regulated institutions can issue assets that are compatible with KYC/AML requirements. Every transfer of such asset is to be cosigned by the issuer, and if there is anything that contradicts the regulations, the issuer won't cosign."
Each EQB is like a blank security form that allow for million of shares/assets to be created. EQB will cater for all sorts of companies that would like to release such assets using a decentralized platform. Each EQB is divisible by 8 decimals like Bitcoin. They can always be returned to blank state giving an incentive for underperforming assets to get out of the market and give way to new offerings.
Equibit will be open to anyone to use, of course big companies who are already on stock exchanges will have to perform a corporate action to switch over to the Equibit system. If the motion carries all the existing holders (i.e. the stock exchanges and institutional investors) they could then do a share-for-share swap. However there are thousands if not millions of secondary and otc markets and startups alone all over the world, Equibit cuts down the overhead costs of creating, managing and distributing shares. But iis also much more than that. You can read our whitepaper to find out more.
Our lawyers will actually be preparing a comprehensive legal resource for companies in all major jurisdictions to do this. There would be template shareholder/director resolutions, bylaw amendments etc. We also want to identify all the jurisdictions that allow securities to be issued in bearer (anonymous) form. I think that will be a huge plus and Equibit could help remediate the negative reputation that bearer assets currently have.
The incentive is that companies using our platform would no longer need to use a transfer agent, which represents a major portion of their investor relations overhead. Equibit is much more than simply a securities register, it can be used to communicate with all our your investors, poll them, handle proxies, and KYC issues in the secondary market. Apple has millions of investors worldwide and doing that using existing services is terribly expensive, slow, and insecure.