Why this matters: Quick reference for terms you will hear in institutional conversations.
Lesson 8 · Glossary and completion
Terms and check
- Tokenization
- Digital certificate of ownership for a real-world asset on a permissioned ledger, with transfer restrictions built in.
- Tokenized CAD deposit
- Bank-issued regulated claim on the ledger; not a third-party stablecoin.
- Delivery versus payment (DvP)
- Asset and cash settle together, or neither does.
- Settlement layer
- Where 4orm composes title, cash, and rules in one regulated event above existing rails.
- Settlement finality
- Irreversible completion of settlement, not merely fast messaging.