corporate actions
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The Hardest Problem in Tokenized Equity Is Not Trading, It Is a Stock Split
A tokenized share is easy to move and hard to adjust. Corporate actions, splits, dividends, mergers, spinoffs, force the token to answer for something that happened off the chain, and there is no single accepted way to do it.
Who Counts as a Holder, and When: The Record Date Problem for Tokenized Stocks
Every dividend, vote and split turns on a snapshot of who owned the share at one instant. Onchain, that instant is a block height, and the two clocks do not agree.
What Happens to Your Token When the Company Splits, Merges or Gets Bought
Dividends are the easy corporate action. Splits, mergers, delistings and tender offers are where tokenized equity wrappers actually get tested, because each one changes what the token is supposed to represent.
What Happens to a Tokenized Stock When the Company Pays a Dividend
Splits, dividends, mergers and ticker changes are routine in equity markets and awkward onchain. Here is the plumbing that decides whether your token still tracks the share it claims to track.