One asset. Two rails. One engine.
Securities increasingly exist in two forms: the traditional record at a depository, and a token in a digital wallet. aavanam is the optimisation engine for that duality. It helps institutions decide where each position should sit, and when to move it, so every holding works on the rail that serves it best.
The same asset, now in two forms.
Tokenization creates a digital form of a real-world asset, such as a share, a bond or a fund unit, that can be held and moved in a digital wallet. The legal asset does not change. What changes is the rail it travels on.
The depository record
Accounts at depositories and custodians. The established home for legal ownership, corporate actions and street settlement.
The digital wallet
Tokens on permissioned networks. Transferable around the clock, programmable, and fast to move between participants.
Which rail, and when?
Once a position can live in both places, every holding carries a choice. Getting that choice right, at scale, is the problem aavanam solves.
A Saturday collateral call
An asset manager holds 100,000 shares of a large-cap stock at its depository. On a Saturday, a counterparty asks for additional collateral. Depository accounts are closed for the weekend, but a tokenized form of the same shares can move between wallets in minutes. Holding part of the position on the token rail, and knowing how much, turns a Monday problem into a Saturday answer.
The optimisation engine for duality.
aavanam gives institutions one view of assets across depositories and wallets, and tells them where each position should sit, and when it should move, to meet their obligations at the lowest cost and the least operational effort.
Depositories & custodians
- Central securities depositories
- Custodian and client accounts
- Street-side settlement
optimises
Digital wallets
- Permissioned token networks
- Client and institutional wallets
- 24×7 transfer
Right asset, right rail, right time
Positions are placed where they will be needed, before they are needed.
Lower cost of movement
Every move between depositories and wallets is weighed against the alternatives.
Fewer fails, less manual work
Deliveries are met from the best available source, without piecing it together across systems.
One view for every team
Operations, risk and compliance see the same position across both rails, with a full audit trail.
An end-of-day delivery
A broker-dealer must deliver 50,000 shares by the close. Some sit in its depository account, some are tokenized in wallets. aavanam shows the options side by side and recommends the fastest, lowest-cost way to complete the delivery.
Built for the desks that hold both kinds of asset.
Banks & broker-dealers
Meet deliveries and collateral calls across depositories and wallets from one view.
Asset managers
Hold tokenized fund and equity positions that can return to the depository whenever a counterparty or custodian needs them.
Tokenization platforms & custodians
Give clients a clear, efficient path between the token and the real-world record.
aavanam, the record.
Our name comes from āvaṇam, a classical Indian word for a record: the document or deed that proves who owns what. In old inscriptions it names the deed written when property changed hands, and the same word also meant the marketplace where that exchange happened.
That is the job aavanam does for tokenized assets: one trusted record of ownership, wherever the asset lives, and a clear view of where it should go next.
āvaṇam · noun
- A record, document or deed, especially of a sale or transfer of property.
- The right of ownership that such a record proves.
- A market or bazaar.
Reference and risk data for tokenized U.S. stocks.
One API key gives you a verified registry of tokenized shares across issuers and chains, live trading halts, SEC filing events, token-versus-share price gaps and suggested haircuts. Start free and upgrade when you go live.
Free
$0
For evaluation
- 1,000 calls a day
- Token registry by issuer and chain
- Active trading halts
- SEC filing events
Pro
$299/month
For production use
- 250,000 calls a day
- Everything in Free
- Live token-versus-share price divergence
- Eligibility and suggested haircuts
- Commercial use
Enterprise
Custom
For institutions and data partners
- Custom call limits
- Redistribution rights
- Dedicated support
- Pilot of the aavanam engine
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