There is a growing trend in the US and Canada for banks to lend against secured intangible assets. Intellectual Property assets of a well-run business will usually increase in value over time, whereas most of their tangible assets will reduce in value
A banker, investment banker, venture fund or any investor will look at the cost of your assets.. A key tool for financiers. For instance, you may have to keep your current assets above a certain percentage of your current liabilities.
Debt-to-asset ratio also known as debt asset ratio, shows the percentage of your company’s assets financed by creditors. Bankers often use the debt-to-asset ratio to see how your assets are financed. In general, a bank will consider a lower debt-to-asset ratio to be a good indicator of your ability to repay your debts or take on additional debt to support new opportunities. A high ratio indicates a substantial dependence on debt and could be a sign of financial weakness.
How to calculate debt-to-asset ratio = LIABILITIES / ASSETS .
But what if your investment in assets is primarily intangible, such as software, apps, websites, social media presence, subscribers database, methods and digital products, digital images, photos, patents and brand names?
Move towards a digital economy these issues increase in relevance, . As an example, Alphabet - the parent of Google - recorded a $1.3 billion operating loss in 2019 on moonshot projects, as “other bets” on its earnings line.
Be Identifiable - Identification of Digital Assets
Be Controlled by the owner - Record on Blockchain
Have Future Economic Benefit - Capitalization of DA (Digital Assets)
DACap includes:
DA Identification to make DA identifiable, which is necessary to Digital Assets to be recognized as an assets;
To be Controlled by the owner we make Record on Blockchain. The Permanent Record on Blockchain with Smart Contract is necessary for protecting the owners rights on DA.
Digital Assets Valuation in our Project consists of or includes in:
General or basic assets valuation depends on the type of assets and method of assets valuation
Smart Contract for Permanent Record on Blockchain
Permanent Smart Contract Record on Blockchain increases Digital Assets Valuation for 25%-100%.
Financial Decisions on financial records of DA in the balance sheet
Digital assets are a part of capital assets. The funding may come from:
Owner's equity
Long term liability / Loan
Lease
Non-operating expenses
Out of balance
Smart Contracts are a self-executing code on Blockchain that automatically implements the terms of an agreement between parties or business logic. It’s basically an unbreakable agreement with predefined rules. In addition, smart contracts are deterministic which means the same output will be generated from a given initial state/input.
Double Coded Digital Assets with Timestamp Records on Blockchain could be Tokenized.
There are three main application of DA Tokenization with Smart Contracts.
Non-Fungible Token (NFT) Smart Contract used to protect owner's right on the original asset.
Fungible Tokens (FT) Smart Contract used to give some of rights to other parties, like the right to print or post one copy of original photo.
Utility Tokens Smart Contracts are used to facilitate transactions of DA tokenized with NFT & FT.
The problem with smart contracts is that most small and medium businesses are unable to implement smart contracts due to technological complexity and because they are expensive. The costs for smart contract development are skyrocketing as there is an increasing demand for smart contract developers.
What’s the actual cost of smart contract development?
Development, auditing and testing are very expensive as this requires even more specialized niche knowledge to find bugs/faults in your smart contract code.
A simple smart contract with no complex business logic costs around $7,000.
More advanced contracts cost up to $45,000 and more.
It’s not uncommon large organizations with specialized knowledge ask up to $100,000. In addition, don’t forget about the costs for deploying your contract on the main net. The complexity of your contract defines the price.
You also need to calculate the exact gas price of your smart contract.