8. Alternative Wealth: The Cow in Your Pocket

In this chapter, we discuss how blockchain technology, through tokenisation of physical assets and behaviours, enables the creation of new types of community currency, which can be used to shape, support and bind global and local communities. We present how this can support value chain provenance, and how it can guarantee origin of goods and behaviours of actors in a system. We show how new asset-based tokens will change our relationship with currency and securities, as they become transactable and it becomes possible to hold a portfolio of assets without participating in traditional capital markets or banking. Finally, we show how to combine tokenised assets with the blockchain benefits of being trusted, faster, more transparent and more efficient than traditional supply chains.