tokenien
Tokenien are units of value, access rights, or ownership claims issued within an information system. They can be digital, stored on a distributed ledger or blockchain, or physical tokens tied to digital records. Tokenien are designed to be transferable, programmable, and verifiable, enabling automated enforcement of rules and easy provenance of assets.
Tokenien are commonly classified as fungible or non-fungible. Fungible tokenien are interchangeable and have uniform value,
Tokenien are created or issued by a token issuer through a smart contract or a centralized system.
Common use cases include payments and value transfer, access control to services, tokenization of real or digital
Blockchain ecosystems often define token standards to ensure compatibility. Fungible tokenien examples include ERC-20-like standards, while
Tokenien markets are influenced by utility, scarcity, and trust. Regulatory considerations address investor protection, securities classification,
See also: token, blockchain, smart contract, non-fungible token, digital asset.