[Note: I don’t normally publish rumors, but a senior person close to the company says that Chain.com may be pivoting away from financial services. The one public indication that this may be true is looking at the social media posts from their employees, such as Twitter. Few have written about enterprise-related stuff the past few months, it’s almost all about other things, usually about Bitcoin itself. If senior managers are passionate about the space they are operating in, they will talk about it. For instance, Gideon Greenspan and Richard Brown do this with their occasional blog posts. Where are the enterprise-specific long-form articles from Chain?]
- Digital-Currency Fever May Spread to Federal Reserve (WSJ) – discussing CBDC
- France to allow blockchain for trading unlisted securities (Reuters) – new rules to attract FIs to France
- Not all business blockchain platforms are alike. To succeed they need to reimagine business computing. – Richard Brown takes on Quorum
- Cardano Foundation partners with Z/Yen Group’s Distributed Futures to research blockchain and AI (PR)
- Rethinking Trade & Finance (International Chamber of Commerce)
- Smart Legal Contracts (Dan Selman) Dan previously was a Chief Architect at IBM and now CTO of Clause.io (with Houman Shadab)
- R3 AWS press release
- Global Debt Registry joins Wall Street Blockchain Alliance (PR)
- Citizens Bank goes live on Zelle (PR) as an anecdote, I started using Zelle this past week, it was super fast (and free)
- NYSE’s Owner Resists Rushing Into Bitcoin (WSJ) they’d rather take their time and do additional DD
- Japan Bank Consortium Moves to Become Production-ready (PR) Ripple claims to have 61 banks now part of it
- Calastone to Bring Mutual Funds Market Onto Blockchain in 2019 (PR) doesn’t say which vendor/platform they will use
- SBI Ripple Asia prepares RC Cloud 2.0 for launch (XRP Chat translation)
- This Is Why Blockchains Will Transform Healthcare (Forbes) no meat
- Blockchain to blockchains: Broad adoption and integration enter the realm of the possible (Deloitte) from Eric Piscini
- SEC Emergency Action Halts ICO Scam (SEC) busted PlexCoin, same folks the Canadian regulators also went after
- The ethereum network is getting jammed up because people are rushing to buy cartoon cats on its blockchain (Quartz) if you’re not familiar with it, CryptoKitties is an online-only card trading program (kind of like baseball cards or Magic The Gathering)… on Ethereum
- ASX Gives Digital Asset’s Technology Green Light to Replace CHESS (PR) key stats are that Digital Asset has now received about $115m in funding and has a staff of 135
- Predictions 2018: Why Blockchain is Ready to Break Out in the Enterprise (eweek) some quotes around enterprise-related deployments including from Peter Loop at Infosys
- SBI BITS and nChain Announce Strategic Partnership to Support Cryptocurrency Security and Bitcoin Cash (PR) SBI invested in this exchange a year or so ago and nChain is run by Craig Wright (the guy who claims to be Satoshi)… it is unclear what nChain will be able to provide at this time
- Jack Ma (Founder of Alibaba): I don’t know much about bitcoin, but we are spending a lot of efforts on blockchain (cnLedger)
- Canadian whistleblowers lead the world in reporting financial crime (Vancouver Observer) the SEC receives more whistleblower info from Canadians than any other foreign nationality
- California court dismisses $1bn cryptocurrency feud (FN London) all eyes on NYC
- Bart Chilton pitching “OilCoin” on @CNBC…can’t make this stuff up (Joe Saluzzi)
- Blockchain App that pays households to cut energy use wins Future Cities Hackathon (Renew Economy) several orgs including BlockApps (from ConsenSys)
- Bitcoin’s Wildest Rise Yet: 40% in 40 Hours (WSJ) i am quoted alongside about 15 others
- Former Mastercard Executive Joins CULedger Consortium as CEO (CD) John Ainsworth
- Payments harmonization – Banks finish migration to ISO 20022 (Payment Eye) 208 banks
- Why firms are cautious about blockchain (Livemint) Akash Gaurav made a plug for Corda
- Fundamental challenges with public blockchains (Preethi Kasireddy) nothing really new to see here
- CBOE began its Bitcoin futures product this evening. The pricing of the future is based off of the Gemini exchange. In a week, CME’s futures product will start, the pricing is based off of 4 exchanges (and doesn’t include Gemini).
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