DSTOQ makes use of tokenization and digital asset issuance on Stellar to provide US-grade securities like Tesla, Google, and Apple stock on their consumer-facing app and B2B API integration to make investing accessible, affordable, and available to anyone with a mobile phone.

Cross-border investing remains costly and largely unavailable to emerging markets. Without the ability to hold best-in-class assets for growing, diversifying, or protecting wealth, many of these populations are left holding onto money whose value diminishes over time, especially in high-inflation countries. These populations simply haven’t had access to the same financial services as those in high-income economies.

DSTOQ identified this problem and offered their own answer: increasing worldwide access to high-quality securities via tokens on Stellar and transacting these tokens on a borderless digital interface. On top of tokenization, DSTOQ focused on building a user app for retail consumers and API-integration functionality for third-party partners.

To provide a global solution that allows for easy investing in world-class assets while cutting out the intermediaries, DSTOQ realized that blockchain technology would play a pivotal role. After exploring which blockchain to build their solution on top of, they settled on Stellar for the following reasons:

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