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Distributed ledger technology (DLT) is a digital system for recording the transaction of assets in which the transactions and their details are recorded in multiple places at the same time. Unlike traditional databases, distributed ledgers have no central data store or administration functionality.

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Interbank Pilot From Visa, Goldman and Others Seeks Real-World Blockchain Utility 
Interbank Pilot From Visa, Goldman and Others Seeks Real-World Blockchain Utility 
March 18, 2024  |  Blockchain

For the past 15 years, blockchain has been attempting to transform the global financial system. Or, if you listen to some of the earlier adherents...

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Are Blockchain-Based Smart Contracts a Smart Option for Global Financing?
Are Blockchain-Based Smart Contracts a Smart Option for Global Financing?
February 28, 2024  |  Blockchain

Proponents of blockchain’s underlying technical capabilities are determined to shake off its cryptocurrency-centric associations. In large part by finding historical opportunity areas within the traditional...

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DLT’s Role in Traditional Finance May Scale With Tokenized Loans
DLT’s Role in Traditional Finance May Scale With Tokenized Loans
December 15, 2023  |  Blockchain

Distributed ledger technology (DLT) has long been promised to upend traditional financial services. The common refrain has been that blockchain would do so by disintermediating...

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BritCoin Insider Says Innovations Built on CBDCs Will Change Nature of Finance 
BritCoin Insider Says Innovations Built on CBDCs Will Change Nature of Finance 
July 18, 2023  |  CBDC

As you read this, the very nature of money is being interrogated and experimentally reshaped. “There’s a huge global trend going on right now into...

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As Fiat Beats Bitcoin, BIS Head Eyes CBDCs and Tokenized Deposits 
As Fiat Beats Bitcoin, BIS Head Eyes CBDCs and Tokenized Deposits 
February 23, 2023  |  Cryptocurrency

The dust has settled. The battlefield is still. And, as has been widely reported this week, Agustín Carstens, general manager of the Bank for International...

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SEC Stablecoin Actions Take Aim at Crypto Market Backbone
SEC Stablecoin Actions Take Aim at Crypto Market Backbone
February 22, 2023  |  Cryptocurrency

Gary Gensler’s 2023 resolution must have been to reign in the crypto industry. This, as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman has issued...

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NY Fed, Top Banks Test ‘Watershed’ Digital Dollar Project
NY Fed, Top Banks Test ‘Watershed’ Digital Dollar Project
December 07, 2022  |  CBDC

A group of large banks is preparing to test a shared digital asset settlement platform. According to the announcement, the study is set to take...

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Maersk Quietly Quits TradeLens Blockchain Project
Maersk Quietly Quits TradeLens Blockchain Project
December 02, 2022  |  Blockchain / Distributed Ledger

With the crypto industry under fire, some blockchain projects are also on the chopping block. It wasn’t supposed to be this way.   After all, blockchains...

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Singapore’s MAS Launches CBDC Test Ubin+
Singapore’s MAS Launches CBDC Test Ubin+
November 03, 2022  |  CBDC

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has debuted Ubin+, a program to test the use of a wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) for cross-border...

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