James Murillo Longas

Signing went digital. The evidence behind a right did not.

For 15 years I've worked in capital markets, and watched us digitize almost everything, except the one thing that matters most when a deal is questioned:

➥ The proof that a documented right is still what it claims to be.

Signing takes seconds. Then the day after, every new reviewer who has to rely on that right rebuilds its evidence from scratch. A bank. Its counsel. An auditor. And now, increasingly, an autonomous agent that does not call a lawyer.

I kept running into this from the inside. The same break, across very different sectors. That is not bad luck. It is structural.

So we gave it a name, and we started building it: hashtag#RightsContinuity

What it is:
• We keep the evidence-state of a documented right reviewable after it is signed, assigned, pledged or tokenized.
• We compose the evidence that signature, custody, registry and oracle systems already produce, under a declared scope.
• One reviewable state, built for two readers at once: a package counsel or a court can examine, and a machine-readable state a protocol or an agent can consume.

What it is not, and this is the part I care about most: We do not decide validity, certify control, or detect fraud. Those determinations stay with the institutions responsible for them.

➥ We keep the evidence reviewable so they can make them.

My thesis is simple. Tokenization does not eliminate risk. It redistributes it, toward infrastructure, governance and evidence. The models that scale will not be the ones that issue the most assets. They will be the ones whose evidence still holds when someone reviews it later.

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I've been sitting with this problem for a long time. Putting a name to it, and something real behind it, is a good day.

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To the people I've crossed paths with over these years in capital markets, in legal, in infrastructure: I'd value your read on this. Tell me where the thesis holds from where you sit, and where it breaks. @caserranovi @VRibes_DAS @marcromerona @asalvany

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Tokenization did not eliminate reconciliation. Look at the SEC's proposed transfer agent rules, whose comment period closed on 3 November.

The proposal would let a transfer agent use "a blockchain or other distributed ledger technology as its master securityholder file, or a component thereof", as long as the agent "maintains at all times exclusive control" over that file. It is still a proposal, and it covers securityholder records under US rules, not loans.

▫️ My reading: even where the chain can serve as the official record, the proposal keeps an accountable party behind it. IOSCO's final report on tokenization, in November 2025, also worked through the legal and operational questions that tokenized assets raise.

A token is very good at one job: recording control and updating that state across a shared ledger. I take that seriously.

The extension to loans is mine, not the @SEC's. Depending on the structure, the right to repayment may be represented or evidenced in three places: the token ledger that shows transfers and holdings, the authoritative record set by the applicable law and the transaction documents, and the loan file with the terms, amendments, payment history and supporting evidence. They may be connected, and they may even share infrastructure. Updating one still does not, by itself, keep the others consistent.

That matters when a buyer runs diligence, when a servicer enforces after a default, and when a court determines which rights and evidence have legal effect. This is where I part ways with the idea that tokenization removes reconciliation. It can improve how records are kept and transferred, while how the underlying right is evidenced, updated and verified still has to be shown, transfer after transfer.

Before pricing a tokenized loan portfolio, I would ask two questions.

Which record do the transaction documents establish as authoritative? And how is the supporting evidence kept consistent with it after each relevant change?

Onchain, the interesting question is the link between the token and the right it represents. Being able to verify a token transfer does not by itself settle what legal rights pass over the invoice: it depends on how that link is built and on the applicable law.

En onchain, la pregunta interesante es el vínculo entre el token y el derecho que representa. Poder comprobar una transferencia del token no resuelve por sí solo qué derechos legales pasan sobre la factura: depende de cómo esté construido ese vínculo y de la ley aplicable.

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