ISIN-DTI Complementary Standards Bridging Traditional and Digital Markets

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ISIN-DTI Guide

ISIN-DTI: The Best of Both Worlds

ISIN: Asset Level Identifier

Global standard for unique identification of financial and referential instruments helping organisations meet regulatory requirements and improve transparency, stability and efficiency

✓ Familiar identifier for financial institutions

✓ infrastructure in place to accommodate and process ISINs

DTI: Token Level Identifier

Global standard for unique identification for all fungible digital tokens providing guaranteed uniqueness of the digital token based on objective, verifiable technical data.

✓ Identification and location of the digital token on a public or private blockchain

✓ Direct link to underlying assets as part of the metadata

DTI/ISIN: Complementary Identifiers

Complimentary, interoperable identifiers, with different functions but intrinsically linked, that work together to bring more transparency to the Digital Asset market.

DTI to ISIN Link

XT ISIN Scope

Crypto assets that are not financial instruments in accordance with ISO 10962 CFI classification are treated as referential instruments and therefore are in scope for XT ISIN allocation.

Note 1: Jurisdiction-agnostic approach has been applied due to regulatory divergence in the treatment of crypto assets across jurisdictions.
Note 2: Centralised approach has been applied due to an absence of clear definition and identification of an issuer for such referential instruments.
Note 3: NFTs are currently out of scope and will be addressed at a future date (this does not apply for financial instruments issued in NFT form).
Note 4: Existing referential instruments for which ISIN allocation rules already exist are not in scope for XT ISIN

DTI Foundation / ANNA Approach

Etrading Software, acting through its non-profit division, DTI Foundation, is responsible for issuing ISINs for crypto instruments globally as a Designated Numbering Agency. Any crypto assets that are not financial instruments in accordance with ISO 10962 CFI classification are treated as referential instruments and therefore are in scope for ISIN allocation with a suffix of XT.
NNAs continue to issue ISINs on all jurisdiction-based tokens. DTI Foundation and ANNA are working on establishing a notification process when an identifier has been issued that could be in scope for both identifiers.

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