Second-largest blockchain platform enabling smart contracts and decentralized applications, created by Vitalik Buterin in 2015. Ethereum's programmable blockchain serves as the foundation for most DeFi protocols and NFTs. It transitioned from energy-intensive proof-of-work to proof-of-stake consensus in 2022, reducing energy consumption by over 99%
John Whelan has been appointed as the firm’s head of strategy for digital assets, following a decade at Santander and 20 years in the financial services sector
The test, enabled by Standard Chartered’s banking infrastructure and institutional trust services, covered the lifecycle of HKD funding into reserve assets, fully backing the minting and transfer of HKD At Par
Oliver Harris will lead the firm's blockchain business unit, with his role predominantly focused on commercialisation and a deepening of institutional client engagement
B2C2 will provide liquidity and trading capabilities directly to the exchange, under its newly launched Matched Principal Model, with initial support for Bitcoin and Ethereum order books
The debt issuance — launched on Obligate, with Sygnum acting as distribution partner — is said to serve as a live counterpart to the slower, more costly, and more rigid alternative of traditional debt financing
The CTD Network — built to connect traditional fund products with digital distribution channels — aims at enabling investors to access L&G’s liquidity strategies in tokenised form via blockchain enabled infrastructure
The partnership will tokenise the Omnes Mining Note, an institutional-grade structured note backed by Bitcoin hashrate, to be issued and managed on the Base Chain
Institutions will be able to stake Ethereum on Anchorage’s platform and receive Puffer’s liquid restaking token, retaining the ability to manage, transfer, or deploy positions within supported onchain ecosystems
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