The Digital Asset Review
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
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"Binance is breaking into the futures market following the acquisition of a little-known derivatives platform.
The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange announced on Monday that it has acquired JEX, an exchange based in Seychelles. As part of the deal, JEX will be rebranded as Binance JEX and will offer derivatives products, including futures, options, and perpetual contracts, according to a press release.
For its part, Binance has been working on its own platform internally. Over the next couple of weeks, Binance will allow its clients to trade on both the JEX platform as well as the one it developed to get a sense of which is superior. Participating traders beta testing the two platforms can vote for their favorite for a chance to win up to 10,000 BNB tokens.”
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"Vertalo has announced that they have forged a strategic partnership with InvestReady. This alliance will see Vertalo integrate services, offered by InvestReady, which are tailor-built to streamline processes surrounding the verification and accreditation of investors.
One noted beneficiary from this new partnership is Prime Trust. Already offering a variety of services, ranging from custody to escrow, Prime Trust now has the ability to continue rounding out their stable of offerings."
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"The international monetary system is broken. Helping to fix it poses a huge opportunity for the cryptographers behind cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.
Now they have one of the stewards of that system in their corner: Mark Carney, the outgoing Bank of England Governor.
A week ago in Jackson Hole, Mont., Carney told the Federal Reserve’s annual gabfest that central bankers could develop a network of national digital currencies to create a new, basket-managed 'synthetic hegemonic currency.'"
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"Hyperledger is officially integrating an open-source Ethereum client into its technology offering.
After vigorous debate, the Hyperledger technical steering committee decided—by unanimous vote—to induct PegaSys’ open-source Ethereum client “Pantheon.” In the coming weeks Pantheon will be renamed Hyperledger “Besu,” after the Japanese term for base or foundation.
Patheon is an open-source Apache 2.0 licensed Ethereum client that is written in Java. It was designed to ensure that developers can easily deal with even the most complicated aspects of a distributed ledger, such as the consensus algorithm, networking, and storage."
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"Banking and financial services giant HSBC has completed the first yuan-denominated letter of credit transaction on a blockchain using the Voltron trade finance platform.
As Reuters reported on Sept. 2, HSBC conducted the first blockchain-based yuan-denominated letter of credit transaction deploying R3’s Corda-powered Voltron platform. In the cross-border transaction, Hong Kong-based electronics manufacturer MTC Electronics exported a shipment of LCD products to its parent firm Shenzhen MTC.
The blockchain platform ostensibly enabled the parties to exchange electronic documents in 24 hours instead of the regular five to 10 days required for traditional document exchanges. "
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"The idea of cryptocurrency and digital tokens as valued business tools is particularly difficult for those outside of the blockchain space to grok. Many executives see blockchain-driven digital currency as a terribly clunky payment vehicle or speculative investment. But signals are building that more organizations recognize its alluring features as fuel for innovative products and services, or useful for axing friction in the business process behind a transaction.
For example, a group of 14 financial firms led by UBS Group AG and including Barclays PLC, Nasdaq Inc., Credit Suisse Group AG , Bank of New York Mellon Corp., and State Street Bank & Trust Co have created a new company, Fnality International, to control development of a bitcoin-like token that the firms plan to use to settle cross-border trades. "
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"The U.S. Air Force (USAF) is reportedly embracing blockchain technology more than ever. Two announcements from last week reveal that the military branch has signed on with blockchain companies to help improve its operations as the branch continues to soar higher and longer.
Constellation Network announced early last week that it had been selected by the U.S.A. to deploy technology that would help it to “securely unlock traditionally siloed and non-accessible data and data sources.” The San Francisco-based company is behind infrastructure elements that create a decentralized data marketplace, as well as enterprise-level software solutions for data provenance and integrity."
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September 23 - 25, 2019
Palm Springs, CA
With the backdrop of Palm Springs, Crypto Springs brings together some of the leading entrepreneurs, technologist, investors, and thought leaders in cryptocurrency to discuss and debate the future of topics like second layer applications, privacy and scalability, developments, and new business models.
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September 26, 2019
Austin, TX
Get ready to tour the latest and greatest of Austin's startup community. ATX Startup Crawl is a celebration of technology and entrepreneurship in Austin— last year there was more than 90 companies and 8,000+ registered crawlers, and we're expecting even more participation this year.
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September 26, 2019
New York, NY
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October 15 - 16, 2019
Los Angeles, CA
The summit brings together developers, entrepreneurs, startups, angel investors, venture capital investors, retail investors, family offices, real estate investors, startup entrepreneurs, issuers, exchanges, broker-dealers, service providers, and members of the media.
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Are you in the market for a cap table management solution?
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Yes, anything is better than what I have
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No, I like manually updating spreadsheets
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Yes, but only if it's connected to a blockchain
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