Had this sitting unresolved for a couple weeks and it came together on the walk back from the shop.
A translated book has two versions in the world. Someone has to keep checking they still say the same thing when the author revises a chapter.
Tokenization works like that.Dusk describe it as creating a synthetic asset representing an underlying one, and the underlying asset stays wherever it already lived, in a registry or a custody arrangement. so there are two records now. the token and the thing it stands for
every corporate action every transfer restriction every servicing event has to land correctly in both. that reconciliation isnt a bug in tokenization, its the defining feature of it
native issuance removes the second copy. the asset is created and managed onchain, so issuance transfers servicing and settlement happen around the ledger instead of around a wrapper. Dusk describe it as assets created directly onchain without needing an underlying asset at all
Where the translation comparison stops working is intent. a translator is preserving a work that already exists and shouldnt change. a registry isnt a work of art, its an operational burden nobody chose
nobody set out to run two sets of books. they ran two because they HAD two, then built an industry around keeping them agreed
whats your take
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