A simple guide to how digital tokens are changing the way we own bonds, real estate and cash Imagine being able to buy a small slice of a commercial building in Mumbai, or a piece of a government bond, for the price of a dinner out and having that ownership recorded instantly and safely on a digital system that cannot be tampered with. This is the basic idea behind tokenization, one of the biggest shifts underway in global and Indian finance today. Tokenization is not crypto

It sounds like the perfect idea. Buy gold with just a few taps on your phone, skip the jeweller, and own pure 24K gold stored safely in a vault somewhere. That is the promise of digital gold, and it has taken India by storm.