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cryptocurrency October 11, 2019

Australia’s only bullion mint is backing a new digital token aimed to allow investors to trade the precious metal in real time. Advertisements The Perth Mint Gold Token (PMGT) was launched by InfiniGold on Friday, and is backed 1:1 by GoldPass certificates issued by The Perth Mint. The digital certificates are 100% gold backed and guaranteed by the Government […]

cryptocurrency October 11, 2019

Six months after Societe Generale issued its first bond on a public blockchain, it has yet to offer the instrument to clients or to make use of the full capabilities of the smart contract mediating the sale.  Advertisements But the French financial institution insists that it hasn’t forgotten about the €100 million (roughly $110 million) […]

cryptocurrency September 12, 2019

Spanish banking giant Santander says it has become the first institution to use a public blockchain to manage all aspects of a bond issue. Advertisements Revealed Thursday, the company not only used a token on ethereum to represent the $20 million debt issuance but settled it with another set of ERC-20 tokens representing cash held […]

cryptocurrency September 10, 2019

Today marks the launch of what is most likely the first ever blockchain-based initial public offering (IPO), with the national stock exchange of the Seychelles selling tokenized shares in its equity to investors worldwide. Advertisements At 09:00 U.K. time (08:00 UTC), the shares will be available on the MERJ exchange’s own platform, as well as through […]

cryptocurrency August 7, 2019

Seychelles’ stock exchange has just listed a tokenized security for trading, becoming the first in the world to do so. Advertisements The exchange, MERJ, is licensed by the Indian Ocean nation’s Financial Services Authority as a securities exchange, clearing agency and securities depository (CSD), and is launching the token to represent its own equity. Revealed exclusively […]

cryptocurrency May 20, 2019

SprinkleXchange, a stock exchange built on ethereum, is reportedly listing its first company next month. Advertisements Sprinkle Group CEO Alexander Wallin told Bloomberg in an interview published Friday, “We have the luxury of being first with this, but we’re aware that it will become a crowded market.” The Bahrain-based platform, operating within a regulatory sandbox created […]

cryptocurrency January 17, 2019

U.K. bank Barclays and London-based startup Clearmatics are inviting coders to come up with ways to connect ethereum with made-for-enterprise blockchains such as Hyperledger Fabric. Advertisements The interoperability challenge is being hosted by Clearmatics and will use a template involving its open-source interoperability protocol, Ion. The hackathon will take place at the Barclays Rise fintech hub […]

cryptocurrency November 29, 2018

ConsenSys Labs has led a $2.1 million seed round for AZTEC, a startup that’s working to make ethereum transactions private so financial institutions can comfortably use the second-largest blockchain. Advertisements Announced Thursday, other investors in the round include Entrepreneur First, Samos Investments, Jeffrey Tarrant (Mov37) and Charlie Songhurst. AZTEC, created by the mathematician Tom Pocock […]