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Token Tech: ERC Tokens and Why They Important to the Financial Markets
When a tokenisation platform creates a token to represent a real-world asset (RWA) it is more than likely that the token will be created to conform with an ERC standard. ERC stands for Ethereum Request for Comment. It is a formal design and umbrella technical standard used by developers to create smart contracts, tokens, wallets…
Deepening Digital Assets into “TradFi” Depends on Infrastructure Integration
By Marco Kessler, Head Product & Business Development, Digital Assets, SIX. Digital assets no longer sit as a separate asset class outside of capital markets. They have become a fully integrated part of “TradFi”. Over the past few years, the technologies that underpin crypto are now being integrated with the core financial plumbing of capital…
Circle Names Founding Validators for Arc Blockchain, Due 16th September
Stablecoin Issuer Circle has set 16th September as the launch date for its public Arc blockchain, and has named a set of blue chip digital assets players to be the first to run validators to secure the network. In addition to Circle itself, BlackRock, DTCC, Galaxy Digital, Global Payments, ICE, Mastercard, MoneyGram, SBI Group, Standard…
Ripple Investments in ZILO and Licuido Expand Transfer Agency, Tokenisation Capabilities
With a focus on providing additional services in the capital markets, payments and liquidity infrastructure provider Ripple has made strategic investments into two companies: ZILO, which provides transfer agency asset technology, and Licuido, a tokenisation platform. Both investments – which collectively bring regulated transfer agency, issuance, and collateral mobility to Ripple’s XRP Ledger (XRPL) –…
Institutions Eye Stablecoins for Payments and Wall Street 2.0; But Understanding and Planning is Key to Success
It was just a dozen years ago that the first stablecoins emerged. The first entrants were BitUSD, a crypto-backed coin, and Realcoin, which was fiat backed. While BitUSD lasted just a few years, Realcoin – which quickly rebranded to Tether – became the undisputed leader in a space now valued at more than $300 billion….
Ten European Banks Kickstart RL1 DLT; Look to Establish Common Infrastructure for Tokenisation Use Cases
Ten European financial institutions are establishing the RL1 Cooperative to create a neutral, member-owned, pan-European DLT utility for tokenised assets, digital money and next-generation financial markets applications. Created as a European Cooperative Society (SCE) based in Luxembourg, the founding members of RL1 – for Regulated Layer One – comprise ABN Amro, Cecabank, Chartered Investment, Crédit…
Ondo Finance Launches Decentralised Ondo Network Running Perpetual Futures Trading; Rethinks Blockchain Technology to Achieve Execution Speed and Privacy
Ondo Finance – which operates an institutional financial transaction platform for tokenised assets – has introduced the Ondo Network, a privacy-first decentralised platform that is already powering Ondo Perps, a high-performance perpetual futures offering. In doing so, Ondo notes that its original plan to build on blockchain technology – dubbed Ondo Chain – needed a…
BitGo and OTC Markets Forming Strategic Alliance to Link Digital Asset Trading and Custody
Digital asset infrastructure provider BitGo and financial markets operator OTC Markets Group are forming a strategic alliance focused on bringing digital asset trading and custody infrastructure to broker-dealers utilising OTC Link ATS, OTC Markets’ SEC-regulated ATS. The alliance is intended to support a range of digital asset securities, and as regulatory frameworks mature, allow broker-dealers…
Uniswap Launches Permissioned Pools Allowing Regulated TradFi Firms to Trade on DeFi Rails
Leading decentralised exchange (DEX) Uniswap has introduced Permissioned Pools bringing on-chain compliance to its permissionless DeFi network. Built in collaboration with Securitize and Superstate, Permissioned Pools leverages the open-source DS Tokens standard that builds compliance functionality into a token’s smart contract code – allowing regulated institutions to take advantage of Uniswap’s decentralised model. The creation…
Trading Up: Helping Our Youngsters Get What We Do
By Andrew Delaney, President, A-Team Group. We hear it time and time again – at our conferences, on our roundtables and from our advisory boards: our beloved financial data and technology industry is suffering from an acute skills shortage. Flip to the other side of the coin, and employers and parents alike fret about the…