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ARTICLE · 27 JULY 2025

Crypto-asset identifiers – (DTIs) as underliers for UPIs

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Non-uniformity of such names, has made the process of identifying such assets duplicative and inefficient.

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Quinn Perrott
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Historically, crypto-assets, as opposed to other financial instruments, have been more difficult to identify given their complexities and intricacies. To date, they been given general short-names. For example:

  • bitcoin is called BTC or XBT, and
  • Ethereum Ether referred to as Ξ, Ether or ETH

Non-uniformity of such names, has made the process of identifying such assets duplicative and inefficient.

What is a DTI?

The Digital Token Identifier (DTI) as defined in ISO 24165 standard (ISO DTI Standard), goes beyond the UPI and ISIN - as they are basically used to identify specific types of crypto assets or digital tokens. The ISO DTI Standard supports regulators and market participants by providing greater transparency, thus mitigating and reducing risk.

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