“It takes a very brave person to be the first mover,” says David Martin at GH Financial Tokenised collateral is unlikely to see widespread adoption anytime soon, according to clearing banks, despite a series of recent tests proving its viability. Proponents of distributed ledger technology (DLT) have long argued that tokenisation can make it easier

“It takes a very brave person to be the first mover,” says David Martin at GH Financial Tokenised collateral is unlikely to see widespread adoption any time soon, according to clearing banks, despite a series of recent tests proving its viability. Proponents of distributed ledger technology have long argued that tokenisation can make it easier

Yesterday the Luxembourg State Treasury issued €50 million in digital Treasury notes using the HSBC Orion DLT platform. The notes which will be listed on the Luxembourg stock exchange, carry zero coupon and were sold at a discount of 99.03% of face value, but will be redeemable at par in six months. It’s the second

OSTTRA’s FX PvP settlement orchestration service grows as Partior Integrates with Baton’s institutional-grade distributed ledger technology (DLT), providing network participants opportunities to use tokenised commercial bank deposits for atomic PvP settlement and liquidity optimisation OSTTRA and Baton Systems announced that Partior has connected to their on-demand FX payment-versus-payment (PvP) settlement service. This integration expands participants’ options for settling

One of the highest profile projects involving blockchain was the Australian Securities Exchange’s (ASX) replacement of its entire post trade system, CHESS. But in late 2022 after six years of work and a change of ASX management, the stock exchange paused work before abandoning the initiative. It had spent A$250m ($164m), which was written off.

This year’s IEEE ICBC 2025 conference in Pisa, Italy was not only a new assembly of blockchain researchers, it also marked another chapter in how modular DLT continues to advance. One of the best-known examples is IOTA, who contributed more than just another sponsorship. Their engagement in activities that included research, community building, and workshop

Virat Singh As the world rewrites the rules of money, India is not just at the table; with the digital rupee, it’s actively drafting the first lines, writes Virat Singh For millennia, money has told the story of human progress—an ever-evolving symbol of trust. From crude barter to glittering gold, from paper notes to plastic