In this episode we talk with John Wu, the President of Ava Labs, as he discusses tokenization, permissionless blockchains, programmable money, the intersection of DeFi and TradFi and more.
Business Insider has put together a list of the 27 fintech unicorns from around the world; data used to determine...
Article shares the participants in the major consortia and networks; discusses the advantages to blockchain technology in banking and what banks need to keep in mind when looking at implementing the technology. Source
[Editor’s Note: This is an article by Devin Partida, the Editor-in-Chief of ReHack.com. Devin is a Fintech and crypto writer...
Last week I spent the week at MIPIM, the largest conference in world dedicated to real estate. The conference is...
All the market drama surrounding plunging cryptocurrency values in 2018 took the focus off of the real progress blockchain technology made...
Mastercard filed a patent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to build a product meant to safeguard identity data. The product is a semi private blockchain used to receive and store identity data like address, tax ID number and more. Source.
Decentraland is looking to create a virtual world where blockchain serves as a registry for digital plots of land; users who mine a block get ownership of the land which can eventually be traded; according to an article in March on the current version of the project, users can build structures using cubes, spheres and plains with more complex features being added in the future; the company hopes to bring support to VR headsets; the company raised 86,206 ether in a little over an hour. Source
BNP Paribas Asset Management was able to complete a fund distribution test using blockchain technology; the test used BNP Paribas Securities Services’ blockchain programme, Fund Link and FundsDLT; as AltFi reports the test was able to show Fund Link connecting to other blockchains and the transaction completed each part of the fund trade process, from order delivery to trade processing; this continues a trend from BNP Paribas Asset Management as they have also launched a specialist fund for fintech investment and began updating their legacy technology. Source.
TradFi's adoption of DeFi infrastructure is ongoing, despite its negative press. Could this mean mainstream integration is close?