Proof-of-stake blockchain NEM (XEM) is making ready for a token migration in December alongside the general public launch of the Image (XYM) blockchain.

Talking to Cointelegraph, NEM Group CIO and NEM Ventures managing director, Dave Hodgson, revealed that Image will host at the least two merchandise at launch.

Image will host the Wave Monetary Whiskey Fund, which gives a tokenized illustration of possession in 25,000 barrels of 2020-vintage bourbon price greater than $4 million. The platform will even host LBCOIN, collectible crypto property that commemorate Lithuania’s 1918 declaration of independence issued by the nation’s central financial institution. Each merchandise have been beforehand hosted on NEM.

Hodgson highlighted the advantages that fractionalization will supply conventional asset courses, noting that Wave’s whiskey fund will supply buyers publicity to an asset class that may historically be very laborious to entry “for those who couldn’t afford to go and purchase 4,000 barrels of whiskey. 

The chief additionally predicted that fractional possession will supply buyers in rising markets like Africa and South-East Asia larger entry to equities merchandise, highlighting the effectivity saving blockchain gives to the sector:

“[Equities] are ripe for disruption, the present mannequin is simply too siloed and the mechanisms by which equities are transferred is simply too gradual and too costly.”

Hodgson described Image as a hybrid blockchain constructed for enterprises with a give attention to interoperability and safety tokens.

Image will be deployed as both a public or non-public chain, providing enterprises ensures that delicate proprietary data is not going to be broadcast throughout an open blockchain community.

The blockchain facilitates cross-chain swaps between the Ethereum and Bitcoin blockchains, with plans to assist further networks sooner or later. Hodgson emphasised the significance of cross-chain interoperability amongst establishments, noting expectations that the longer term will deliver a crypto ecosystem comprising a number of specialised blockchains working in symbiosis.

XEM holders can convert their tokens into XYM at a 1:1 ratio in December, nevertheless, they need to opt-in for the snapshot beforehand.