Blockchain
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238The Growth of Institutional Blockchain Adoption
In March 2024, State Street, the third-largest custodian bank in the world with $41 trillion in assets under custody, announced it was...
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How Blockchain Is Reinventing Financial Trust
When FTX collapsed in November 2022, $8 billion in customer deposits vanished because customers trusted a centralised exchange to hold their money...
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Why Fintech Companies Are Building Blockchain Solutions
In December 2024, Revolut applied for a full UK banking licence while simultaneously expanding its blockchain-based payment infrastructure across Europe and Asia....
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The Role of Blockchain in Financial Transparency
After FTX collapsed in November 2022, cryptocurrency exchanges faced a simple question from customers: prove you have our money. Within weeks, Binance,...
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How Blockchain Platforms Are Powering Digital Finance
In November 2024, Solana processed over 65 million transactions in a single day, more than Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Polygon combined. The same...
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Why Blockchain Is Transforming Financial Infrastructure
The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) processed $2.5 quadrillion in securities transactions in 2023, making it the most important financial infrastructure...
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The Future of Blockchain in Fintech Innovation
In September 2024, Visa published a research paper describing “smart contract wallets” that could automatically manage a user’s finances: paying bills, rebalancing...
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How Blockchain Is Driving Financial Transformation
In 2024, Broadridge Financial Solutions reported that its blockchain-based repo platform had processed over $1 trillion in cumulative transaction volume. The number...
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The Expansion of Blockchain Applications in Finance
When the European Investment Bank issued a €100 million digital bond on a public blockchain in April 2021, it was the first...
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Why Decentralised Technologies Are Gaining Momentum
In December 2024, the total value locked in decentralised finance protocols exceeded $100 billion for the first time since the 2022 market...
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How Blockchain Improves Financial Security
Financial services firms experienced 744 reported data breaches in 2023, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center. The industry consistently ranks among...
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The Evolution of Blockchain Ecosystems
In January 2020, the total value locked in all DeFi protocols across all blockchains was $650 million. By November 2021, it was...
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Why Blockchain Is Changing Financial Networks
SWIFT, the financial messaging network that connects 11,000 institutions across 200 countries, began testing blockchain interoperability in late 2023 with over 30...
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How Crypto Infrastructure Is Expanding Globally
In January 2024, Dubai’s Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA) issued its 19th operating licence for a digital asset company. The same month,...
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The Future of Blockchain-Driven Financial Services
Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, told shareholders in his 2024 annual letter that tokenisation of financial assets would be “the next generation...
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Why Blockchain Is Attracting Institutional Interest
In May 2024, the State of Wisconsin Investment Board disclosed a $163 million position in BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF. A public pension...
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How Blockchain Is Reinventing Financial Systems
A wire transfer between New York and Tokyo still takes one to three business days to settle. The sender’s bank debits the...
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The Rise of Blockchain-Powered Financial Platforms
Coinbase reported $6.6 billion in revenue for 2024. Uniswap, a decentralised exchange with no corporate headquarters and roughly 80 employees, facilitated over...
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How Blockchain Supports Financial Innovation
In March 2023, a single Ethereum transaction executed a flash loan of $200 million, used it to arbitrage a price difference across...
