Cardano Foundation Spins Off Veridian and Tokenizes Its Shares

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On October 8, 2026, CoinDesk reported that the Cardano Foundation had decided to spin off the digital identity project Veridian into an independent Swiss company. After the spin-off, Veridian will no longer exist as a project under the Cardano Foundation, but will instead become an independent company. The report also stated that the company plans to tokenize its shares on the Cardano blockchain: Veridian has issued a total of 1 million shares, most of which will be tokenized through the Cardano chain. The report did not disclose the specific establishment date of the independent company, the exact number of shares to be tokenized, implementation arrangements, or details of subsequent transactions. The progress currently known is that the spin-off plan and the share-tokenization arrangement have been disclosed.

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