Commodity token
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Commodity tokens are a proposed category of digital assets, under the report "Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology".
The report proposes a taxonomy for digital assets, separating them into three categories:
- Security Tokens: Digital assets that constitute securities because, for example, they represent an interest in equity, bonds, or security-based swaps, or form part of an investment contract. This can include tokenised securities.
- Commodity Tokens: Digital assets that are not security tokens (i.e., digital assets that aren’t securities). The report notes that this category includes network tokens, meaning tokens that are connected to the functioning of a decentralised network or protocol; examples include bitcoin and ether.
- Tokens for Commercial and Consumer Use: Digital assets that are used to access some good, service, or privilege and subject to laws relating to commercial transactions. The report notes that this category includes non-fungible tokens (NFTs) representing identity credentials or event tickets.
(Source - Naresh Aggarwal, blog September 2025.)
See also
- 24/7
- Alternative finance
- Assets
- Bitcoin
- Blockchain
- Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
- Central bank digital currency
- Commodity
- Cryptoassets
- Cryptocurrency
- Cryptography
- Dematerialisation
- Digital asset
- Digital capital market
- Digital currency
- Distributed ledger
- Ether
- Fungible
- Information technology
- Law
- Money
- Natively digital asset
- Non-fungible token (NFT)
- Regulation
- Security
- Security token
- Share
- T+0
- Token
- Token for commercial and consumer use
Other resources
- Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and other digital currencies – September 2025 - Naresh Aggarwal
- Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology, 2025
- Insights from the 2024 Digital Assets Survey - Naresh Aggarwal, Associate Director, Policy & Technical at the ACT and Nick Philpott, Co-Founder & Head of Partnerships at Zodia Markets by Standard Chartered
- Digital Assets Survey 2024 - ACT - Zodia Markets
- Legal and Regulatory Implications for Digital Assets - Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
