Jonny Fry Posted

2 Years Ago |

Trading tokenised funds: efficiencies and challenges 

Written by Peter Habermacher, CEO Aaro Capital

The size and popularity of mutual funds are mind boggling. In the US alone, almost half of US households own shares of mutual funds, and their net assets were just under $24 trillion in 2020. Is there scope for using blockchain technology to process transactions and record share ownership in this asset class? Even if moderate efficiency gains can materialise, the sheer size of this market has the potential to generate one of the strongest use cases for blockchain technology. In this note, we discuss the potential efficiencies and...

Trading tokenised funds: efficiencies and challenges 

Written by Peter Habermacher, CEO Aaro Capital

The size and popularity of mutual funds are mind boggling. In the US alone, almost half of US households own shares of mutual funds, and their net assets were just under $24 trillion in 2020. Is there scope for using blockchain technology to process transactions and record share ownership in this asset class? Even if moderate efficiency gains can materialise, the sheer size of this market has the potential to generate one of the strongest use cases for blockchain technology. In this note, we discuss the potential efficiencies and

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Jonny Fry Posted

2 Years Ago |

If banks are from Mars, then cryptocurrency and blockchain are from Venus

Written by Helen Disney from The Realization group


This has largely been the status quo for over a decade since the birth of the Bitcoin network in 2008. However, could the planets now be aligning themselves as a convergence between traditional finance (TradFi) and decentralised finance (DeFi) becomes a reality? Of course, there have been sporadic forays by banks and institutional investors into the world of crypto and blockchain before now. Tokenistic (no pun intended) as some banks’ previous announcements may have been, there have certainly been some innovators and...

If banks are from Mars, then cryptocurrency and blockchain are from Venus

Written by Helen Disney from The Realization group


This has largely been the status quo for over a decade since the birth of the Bitcoin network in 2008. However, could the planets now be aligning themselves as a convergence between traditional finance (TradFi) and decentralised finance (DeFi) becomes a reality? Of course, there have been sporadic forays by banks and institutional investors into the world of crypto and blockchain before now. Tokenistic (no pun intended) as some banks’ previous announcements may have been, there have certainly been some innovators and

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Jonny Fry Posted

2 Years Ago |

Insurance and digital asset mining

Written by George Frith from GoSuperscript

The digital world is fast-moving, especially if compared to the more traditional financial landscape, which can appear glacially slow to keep up with the latest and greatest cutting-edge technology. Until late last year, few of us would readily admit to knowing what the metaverse really entailed unless you’ve seen Ready Player One which has some prophetic qualities to it! However, following Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta shift most of us now have some comprehension of what it is and what it might become.

The crypto landscape is maturing

Many consider that the digital asset...

Insurance and digital asset mining

Written by George Frith from GoSuperscript

The digital world is fast-moving, especially if compared to the more traditional financial landscape, which can appear glacially slow to keep up with the latest and greatest cutting-edge technology. Until late last year, few of us would readily admit to knowing what the metaverse really entailed unless you’ve seen Ready Player One which has some prophetic qualities to it! However, following Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta shift most of us now have some comprehension of what it is and what it might become.

The crypto landscape is maturing

Many consider that the digital asset

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Jonny Fry Posted

2 Years Ago |

Distributed networks and the growth of the stakeholder economy

Written by Brian O’Beirne  research director Kasei PLC

 
A “virtuous cycle of decentralisation” is a positive feedback loop between the value of a protocol and its decentralisation, whereby the increasing value of a protocol promotes its decentralisation which, in turn, increases its value. This cycle is embodied in the design of a blockchain protocol and is the primary causal dynamic through which the protocol grows and ultimately gains mainstream adoption. But to fully understand this cycle, we must first understand what is meant by;

 

 1) the “value” of a blockchain protocol

 2) its “decentralisation”

 

Each...

Distributed networks and the growth of the stakeholder economy

Written by Brian O’Beirne  research director Kasei PLC

 
A “virtuous cycle of decentralisation” is a positive feedback loop between the value of a protocol and its decentralisation, whereby the increasing value of a protocol promotes its decentralisation which, in turn, increases its value. This cycle is embodied in the design of a blockchain protocol and is the primary causal dynamic through which the protocol grows and ultimately gains mainstream adoption. But to fully understand this cycle, we must first understand what is meant by;

 

 1) the “value” of a blockchain protocol

 2) its “decentralisation”

 

Each

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