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[kej]

How would this be different than the person issuing your Hexel-based tokens disappearing? The value is still tied to the single issuer.

[Maybestring → kej]

The person receiving the token isn't the customer, the issuer is.

As an issuer, you do not have to worry about Hexel dissapearing. Presumably, the website doesn't make this clear.

[kej → Maybestring]

Right, the comment I replied to was saying that the issuer keeping a database and not doing any blockchain stuff had the risk that the database could disappear.

The Hexel model doesn't seem to fix that. The issuer could still disappear, leaving the end user with a bunch of Hexel-tokens that can't be used anywhere.