> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://cts-docs.cosmos.network/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Overview

> The categories of tokenized asset the Cosmos Tokenization Suite is designed to support, and which of them are available today.

The Cosmos Tokenization Suite (CTS) tokenizes assets that already sit on a bank's own
books. An authoritative system is the bank system that records each asset. The
asset stays on that system, while CTS mirrors it onto a digital ledger.

The pattern is the same for every asset. The digital ledger can hold, transfer,
and settle the mirrored asset, and make it reachable from other networks.

Because the pattern is constant, the relevant question for any asset type is
whether the connector to the authoritative system exists, and whether the
asset's legal and regulatory shape has been worked through. These conditions separate the categories below.

## The four categories

| Asset type                                          | What is tokenized                                         | Status                                                                                           |
| --------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| [Tokenized deposits](/use-cases/tokenized-deposits) | A client's deposit balance, held on the bank's core       | Available today, and the focus of the Issuance solution                                          |
| [Stablecoins](/use-cases/stablecoins)               | Third-party fiat-backed tokens the bank hosts for clients | Offering selected assets such as USDC and EURC is supported                                      |
| [Real world assets](/use-cases/real-world-assets)   | Off-chain assets represented on ledger                    | Not a shipped product today                                                                      |
| [Securities](/use-cases/securities)                 | Regulated instruments and the positions against them      | Not shipped, apart from securities held on the general ledger through the Jack Henry integration |

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Tokenized Deposits" icon="coins" href="/use-cases/tokenized-deposits">
    The current product. The deposit stays on the bank's core and becomes
    transferable on a digital ledger.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Stablecoins" icon="circle-dollar-sign" href="/use-cases/stablecoins">
    CTS supports offering selected third-party stablecoins to clients and
    using one as a settlement asset between banks.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Real World Assets" icon="building-2" href="/use-cases/real-world-assets">
    The architecture generalizes to other asset classes, but the required
    product is not built yet.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Securities" icon="scroll" href="/use-cases/securities">
    Securities are available on the general ledger today. The wider use case
    remains directional.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## What does not change between asset types

Four parts of the deployment are indifferent to the asset being tokenized. A new
asset class therefore requires a connector and compliance work, not a new
platform:

* The digital ledger. It holds tokenized balances without needing to know what
  the balance represents. See [Digital Ledger Support](/digital-ledger-support/overview).
* Ledger sync. Mirroring and writeback keep the digital ledger and the
  authoritative system in agreement in both directions. See
  [Banking Core Integrations](/banking-core-integrations/overview).
* Custody. CTS never holds private keys for assets on shared or public
  networks. The custodian signs under the bank's policy. See
  [Digital Asset Custody](/digital-asset-custody/overview).
* Interoperability. IBC carries authenticated messages between ledgers regardless
  of the asset in the message. See [Inter-Blockchain Communication](/ibc/overview).

The connector into the authoritative system changes between asset types. The
asset's transfer restrictions and lifecycle events also change.

## How to read this section

The tokenized deposits page describes a shipped product. The stablecoins page
separates current support from the platform's broader scope.

The real world assets and securities pages describe use cases suited to the
architecture, not features available for deployment today.

<Note>
  Contact
  [sales@cosmoslabs.io](mailto:sales@cosmoslabs.io) to discuss an asset class that is not covered here instead
  of assuming it is available.
</Note>

## Next

* [Issuance](/cts-issuance/overview) for the solution these use cases run on
* [Getting Started](/what-is-cts/getting-started) for the setup flow
* [Components](/what-is-cts/components) for what each part of CTS does