- Cask Capital is democratizing whiskey investment by turning rare Scotch casks into NFT-based shares on Hedera’s network.
- Fractional ownership lets investors buy into whiskey barrels for as little as £100, making luxury assets widely accessible.
London’s Cask Capital is bringing fresh spirit into a centuries-old industry by partnering with Hedera to tokenize the global whiskey market, which holds a staggering value of $90 billion. Instead of keeping rare Scotch casks hidden in the domain of the wealthy few, the firm is turning them into digital assets and selling shares through NFTs.
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The idea is to make the premium cask ownership experience available to everyday investors. Jeremy Kadouch, co-founder of Cask Capital, recently explained that by using the Hedera network, people can now own a piece of a rare whiskey barrel for as little as £100. Fractional ownership lowers the barrier for entry and creates a wider reach, even outside the crypto-savvy crowd.
“Are we going to fractionalize this cask or are we going to list it as a whole? Those are also two things. So we basically have two options. We’re now mainly focused on fractionalization,” Kadouch shared.
He added that the platform does plan to offer full-cask listings as well, with one coming soon.
Opening Casks and Closing Gaps
Scotch whiskey casks typically cost between £2,500 and £4,000. Cask Capital usually splits them into 20 to 30 parts, creating NFT-based shares that are easy to buy, even for newcomers. That makes each share roughly £100 to £150, a fraction of traditional investment costs in this sector.
Cask Capital’s marketplace, developed by N-Finite in collaboration with The Hashgraph Association, runs on the HBAR network. This platform is more than just flashy tech—it combines traditional Web2 experiences with cutting-edge blockchain behind the scenes. Buyers don’t even need to know they’re using NFTs.
“All tokens And whiskey casks on our marketplace. There are NFTs on the backend… We want to attract users on a global level and don’t necessarily Web3 crypto native people,” said Kadouch.
Real Assets, Digital Shares
The platform is powered by TOKO, a tokenization engine created and owned by international law firm DLA Piper. Through TOKO, each cask or cask-share is minted into a traceable digital asset. This structure is part of Hedera’s larger push into real-world asset (RWA) tokenization.
That same Hedera ecosystem is attracting projects beyond whiskey. From carbon credits to commercial real estate, even money market funds are being turned into on-chain assets. Hedera’s progress is backed by real numbers, with a 1385% spike in development activity and major projects quietly in motion.
This shift signals a broader moment where physical assets—from bottles of aged Scotch to complex investment vehicles—are being broken down into bite-sized tokens. No fancy knowledge required, just a digital wallet and a little curiosity.
