digital asset identifiers
A wallet address tells you where value sits, not what the value is. Here is why identifying a token takes more than an address, and what standards are emerging to fix it.
stablecoins
A stablecoin can live on a dozen chains with a dozen contract addresses and no shared key. Stablecoin identifiers fix that by mapping every deployment back to one canonical asset identity.
digital asset identifiers
The LEI names the legal entity behind a financial deal. A digital asset identifier names the token itself, across every chain it lives on. Here is how they differ and why both matter.
digital asset identifiers
FIGI gives global instruments a persistent identifier that never changes. Onchain-native identifiers add something FIGI was not designed for: a canonical key for the same token deployed across many blockchains.
tokenized securities
Tokenized securities live across many blockchains with different contract addresses and no common key. Here is how identifiers solve that, from ISIN and CUSIP to onchain-native standards like DASID.
digital asset identifiers
A plain-English guide to digital asset identifiers: what they are, why contract addresses fall short, and how emerging standards give onchain assets a canonical name.
digital asset identifiers
A contract address points to one deployment on one chain. A digital asset identifier names the asset across all of them. Here is how the two differ and why it matters for onchain finance.
DASID
DTI and DASID both give digital assets a stable identity, but they solve the problem in different ways. Here is how the two identifiers compare and where each fits.
digital asset identifiers
ISINs identify securities but have no concept of a per-chain token deployment. Here is how ISINs work, what they do well, and how onchain-native identifiers like DASID address the gap.
digital asset identifiers
CUSIP names a security. A digital asset identifier resolves the layer beneath it: which token, on which chain, at which contract. Here is how the two compare.
digital asset identifiers
The same token exists across dozens of blockchains, each with a different contract address and no common key. Digital asset identifiers fix that. Here is the full landscape, from CUSIP to DTI to the emerging DASID standard.