Financial institutions may not agree on when the cryptocurrency industry will mature enough and not be a threat to them, but employees may choose to launch their own currencies, nevertheless. The latest currency was created by former employees at JP Morgan, Intel and TrustToken. The cryptocurrency is actually a stablecoin pegged to the USD and…
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When Bitcoin and Ethereum were the only games in town, the issue of token standards and interoperability was not even on the radar screen, but today, with thousands of crypto development programs and tokens to match, it is time to “address the need to universally define tokens and how their implementation can occur, interchangeably, across…
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The network of partners working with enterprise software firm R3 to develop distributed ledger technology (DLT) based applications on its Corda platform has grown to over 60 companies from a wide variety of industries and regions across the globe. The Corda partner network consists of companies that are actively engaged with the Corda platform, including:…
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Leading bitcoin payments company BitPay today announced the first bitcoin wallet with Intel hardware security integration. This new solution will allow Copay users to rest assured that their data is better protected even if their application code or associated computer is compromised. The Intel Software Guard Extensions integration offers hardware-level protection for the bitcoin wallet’s…
Read moreFinancial innovation company R3, Intel and eight R3 consortium member banks have successfully tested a distributed ledger prototype for bond transactions using Intel technology. The trial used US treasury bonds to demonstrate how distributed ledger technology can support trading in real-world financial markets, delivering the necessary scalability and supporting throughput of over 100,000 transactionsper day.…
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