This is the first of a series of blog posts that explores the latest developments in interoperability here at Clearmatics. Follow our progress on Github and check out the rest of this blog series! Ion is the cross-chain interoperability research project currently in development at…
dFMI: Governing Blockchain Based Financial Market Infrastructure
In our last post, we considered the ingredients needed for Financial Services participants to realise the full benefits of blockchain protocols. We discussed the first ingredient, asset tokenization, which allows for a new post trade business model where participants can interact directly with one another…
Distributed Financial Market Infrastructure and the Disintermediation of Digital Assets
This is the first of a series of posts where we outline a vision of a “Distributed FMI” (dFMI), a vision that goes beyond the narrow, technology-centric goals of operational efficiency improvements that are found in many DLT initiatives. dFMI is a multi-disciplinary construct that…
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Seasons Greetings From all of us at Clearmatics
No, Bitcoin Is Not The Future Of Securities Settlement: Part 3 Registered Versus Bearer Assets
Registered versus Bearer Assets Nothing in what I have said here is meant to take away from the inspired, brilliant solution that Satoshi implemented for censorship resistant digital cash. And, furthermore, that design goal is IMHO a worthy one. Society should have a digital cash…
No, Bitcoin Is Not The Future Of Securities Settlement: Part 2 The 51% Trade Is Coming
In the previous post, we pointed out that there are two main problems with using a ledger hosted by a trusted third party: The third party could delete a transaction, reversing history. The third party could censor a transaction, refuse to enter it into the…





