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Carlo R.W. De Meijer

Carlo R.W. De Meijer Owner and Economist at MIFSA

Blockchain and Stable Coins: opening the crypto markets?

In my recent blog about IBM’s Blockchain World Wire I mentioned the use of Stable Coins as settlement instrument for global payment transactions. Not many are familiar with the term Stable Coins, because it is a relatively new type of cryptocurrency. The Stable Coin market is however hotter than ever. In recent months, Stable Coins have seen remark...

Carlo R.W. De Meijer

Carlo R.W. De Meijer Owner and Economist at MIFSA

Blockchain Corda Settler, Ripple and SWIFT a mariage a trois?

My last blog was about the IBM World Wire, a blockchain based platform for global payments. Another competitor in the blockchain payments world I have written about regularly is Ripple. Both are thereby targeting centralised payments messages network SWIFT. IBM and Ripple however are not the only players in the blockchain payments world. Late last ...

David Creer

David Creer Technology & Innovation Lead at GFT

The future for blockchain is bright and it’s integrated

April seems to have been a big month so far for Digital Asset. Only a week after their announcement regarding their open sourcing of the platform, they have now published a press release stating that they will be also be integrating DAML with VMWare’s Software as a Service (SaaS) Platform, and they have also hinted that they may also integrate wit...

Carlo R.W. De Meijer

Carlo R.W. De Meijer Owner and Economist at MIFSA

IBM Blockchain World Wire: growing competition in payments

Last year October I wrote a blog about IBM’s World Wire project. In that month they announced to come to the market with a global blockchain network for cross-border payments and foreign exchange for regulated financial firms using digital assets. But at that time it was not yet ready for production. A month ago the firm has announced that World W...

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The Tokenization Effect: Jointer and Scalability

Ever since Jointer was announced, the service has received a lot of attention from multiple sides in the industry. It looks like it has a strong potential to transform many aspects of the financial market. At the same time, some have questioned certain aspects of the service. Most notably, its ability to scale up with a growing number of transacti...

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Bitcoin Cyrptocurrency Skyrocketing Like Never Before

In recent days Bitcoin has skyrocketed like never before; something people haven’t seen in several months. There were also some Cryptocurrencies of smaller companies that reached higher numbers as well. This was all set off by a buyer who is at this moment unknown. The Asian trading has seen a 20% increase in with their bitcoin rates. Their curre...

David Creer

David Creer Technology & Innovation Lead at GFT

DLT and hybrid technology solutions are now more readily available

There has been some exciting news from Digital Asset Holdings (DA) this week, with their announcement of various measures to increase accessibility and visibility of their platform. Firstly, they have stated that their DAML software development kit (SDK) will now be available on a free basis without request. As there is no longer an approval stage ...

Carlo R.W. De Meijer

Carlo R.W. De Meijer Owner and Economist at MIFSA

Blockchain for Europe Association: speaking with one voice

It is getting crowdy in the world of Blockchain Associations in Europe. Following the examples of The European Blockchain Partnership, The Blockchain Association of Europe, the EU Blockchain Observatory & Forum, and many others, end 2018 a number of leading blockchain corporates including Ripple joined forces to create the Blockchain for Europ...

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Blockchain Makes Its Way into the Diamond Industry as De Beers Starts to Experiment with New Tech

The highly flexible nature of blockchain has started to become really apparent in recent years. The technology has managed to find its way into many areas of life, and various companies in many different industries have been actively experimenting with it for various purposes. And while some of those experiments have ultimately proved fruitless, t...

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Can we have digital identity and privacy? Blockchain and Centralised PKI

With the rise of national digital identity in several countries, and the very real need for one billion people around the world without an official identity, there are many questions around how best to do it; what is the right kind of technology? What level of privacy is required? Who should be responsible for it? I’ll say it now; there are no perf...

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