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What is KYC and eligibility gates?

Know-your-customer is the identity layer regulated finance requires: who holds what, verified before they hold it. On public chains identity cannot be enforced at the address level, so the gate moves to the edges, issuers allowlist transfers, platforms gate on-ramps, checkouts ask buyers to confirm eligibility.

For tokenized assets the pattern is layered: the issuer's on-chain rules do the hard enforcement (transfers to blocked addresses revert), while the venue carries the disclosure duty, stating plainly who may hold and what rights do not attach.

KYC and eligibility gates on U.CASH

U.CASH checkouts present eligibility confirmations for tokenized assets and pre-flight the issuer's transfer gate; the asset pages carry the disclosures so the terms precede the transaction.

See also

AllowlistTokenized stock

KYC and eligibility gates: FAQ

Does U.CASH require KYC for crypto payments?
Crypto rails settle wallet-to-wallet without identity requirements; eligibility gates apply where the asset or rail is regulated, tokenized assets, card processing through your own account, and those are disclosed at the point of transaction.
Why do tokenized stocks ask me to confirm things?
Because the issuer's transfer rules bind the token: the confirmation records that you were told the eligibility terms before the transfer, which is the disclosure both sides of the trade need.
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