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Societe Generale Forge launches tokenization challenge

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Today Societe Generale Forge (SG Forge), the bank’s digital asset division, unveiled its second CAST Challenge to encourage developers to use its CAST (Compliant Architecture for Security Tokens) Framework. Prizes of up to €30,000 are on offer.

However, the big advantage for the winners could be the ability to work with some of its partners. The competition judges are from ABN Amro, AXA Investment Managers, Credit Agricole, ICMA, Santander, Societe Generale and Visa.

It ran its first Challenge last year, but since then, the momentum for tokenization  has picked up significantly. For example, partners Credit Agricole and ABN Amro  both launched digital securities platforms this year, and AXA IM has invested in tokenized securities (not its first) and received a digital asset license. SG Forge also received its digital asset license late last year.

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