Episode 27: Webinar Introduction to use-case Digital Notary 2Tokens Podcast

Creating one digital journey for entrepreneurs with minimum interference of a notary, that is the goal of this use-case. A pivotal piece of this exercise is to be able to create the first fully digitized shareholders register that allows trading shares without any notary interference at all (in a fully legal and compliant way).

As the European Parliament just passed new legislation stating that from August 1st, 2021 every European country has to offer full digital incorporation of limited companies, the Netherlands feels the pressure. In the Netherlands, we currently have rigid notary structure used to incorporate limited liability businesses (Dutch: BVs) and to trade its shares. With this new legislation, the European Parliament has set a timetable on the digital incorporation of companies, digital shareholder registers and digital transfer of shares.


The Digital Notary use-case has been established to find a way to change the standard on corporate structuring and the trading of private shares. In the future, those wishing to establish a new company will now be able to do so in a fully digital and affordable way. Various partners have come together acknowledging the same problems that exist today: the process of incorporation and transfer of shares of private limited companies is too cumbersome, expensive, and time-consuming (in the Netherlands). To be clear, this does not mean that this use-case aims to remove a notary, but rather envisions a different role.