The excitement around #blockchain and its applications has led to many networks that purport to multiple use cases and, in effect, fail to properly deliver on their particular niche requirements.

From the beginning Polymesh has stood out from other blockchains, distinguishing itself by focusing specifically on the needs of financial institutions through purpose-built infrastructure for #tokenization.

Polymesh was born out of discussions with large financial institutions, regulators, and other important players in capital markets, and continuously evolves alongside their requirements

These discussions identified that one of the major problems facing financial institutions in transitioning to tokenization was the tradeoff that occurred when choosing between private permissioned versus public permissionless infrastructure.

Public permissionless networks are better for use cases involving large-scale interoperability and broad access but carry the risk of interacting with blacklisted entities, a major hindrance for regulated entities executing transactions of billions of dollars.

Private permissioned blockchains offer a semblance of security and control but require governance to be managed by a central entity, limiting the network’s ability to decentralize systems.

Polymesh, a public permissioned blockchain purpose-built for regulated assets, removes these limitations by providing a compliance-ready and scalable infrastructure specifically for capital markets.

User-level access is restricted to participants with verified identities and node operators – the entities who run operator nodes – must be known, licensed financial entities.