Does class/P&I history speed tokenized shipping diligence, or does tokenization reset the clock?

In practice, it does both, just not symmetrically. Classification society certification and P&I coverage are mature, well-understood signals; an institutional analyst can verify a vessel's condition and liability exposure quickly, because that infrastructure has a century of precedent behind it. That genuinely shortens diligence on the asset side.

But it doesn't transfer to the tokenization side. Custody of the token, legal enforceability of on-chain ownership, and securities classification have none of that precedent, so the clock resets there regardless of how sound the underlying vessel is. The honest answer: asset-level diligence gets faster, platform-level diligence stays slow, and institutions will evaluate the two separately rather than letting one borrow credibility from the other