Digital Asset Holdings

Startups

Digital Asset Holdings Details Work on Hyperledger Blockchain Platform

Digital Asset Holdings has released new details about its long-secretive Hyperledger blockchain platform to be maintained by the Linux Foundation.

Business  ·  25 January 2016
Venture Capital

Blythe Masters Blockchain Startup Raises $50 Million From 13 Financial Firms

Blockchain startup Digital Asset Holdings has announced that it has raised more than $50m in a new funding round.

Business  ·  22 January 2016
JP Morgan

JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs Veterans Join Digital Asset Team

Digital Asset Holdings has added new executives as it seeks to expand into the European market.

Business  ·  15 January 2016
Venture Capital

Report: Blythe Masters’ Blockchain Startup Struggles to Close Funding

Digital Asset Holdings, the startup led by ex-JP Morgan exec Blythe Masters, is apparently running into hurdles closing an investment round.

Business  ·  29 December 2015
JP Morgan

IBM Creates Open-Source Blockchain With Linux and Big Banks

IBM has launched an open-source blockchain project along with financial incumbents including JP Morgan and Wells Fargo.

Business  ·  17 December 2015
Startups

Blythe Masters Turned Down Barclays to Stay at Blockchain Startup

Blythe Masters turned down an offer to run Barclays' investment bank to stay with her blockchain technology startup Digital Asset Holdings.

Business  ·  3 December 2015
Blockstack

Digital Asset Holdings to Acquire Blockchain Startup Blockstack

San Francisco-based blockchain startup Blockstack.io has entered into an acquisition agreement with Digital Asset Holdings.

Business  ·  29 October 2015
Banking

Blockchain Platform Setl Exceeds 1 Billion Transaction ‘Milestone’

Blockchain platform Setl claims to have surpassed 1 billion transactions per day, in what it terms a "milestone" for scaling the technology.

Business  ·  12 October 2015
Startups

Former US Advisor: Blockchain Systems Could Threaten Privacy

A long-time White House official recently discussed the blockchain as a mechanism for a universal cashless system.

Business  ·  8 September 2015
Banks

BNP Paribas: Blockchains Will Destroy or Rebuild Securities Services

Blockchain technology will bring either doom or opportunity to securities services firms, according to European banking giant BNP Paribas.

Business  ·  3 July 2015
Startups

Blythe Masters Firm Acquires Two Blockchain Startups

Digital Asset Holdings has announced the acquisition of two blockchain startups: Hyperledger and Bits of Proof.

Business  ·  25 June 2015
JP Morgan

Blythe Masters: Blockchain Tech Will Transform Finance

Former Wall Street executive Blythe Masters says distributed ledgers will change the way the financial world operates. Speaking at the Exponential Finance conference in New York, Masters who joined bitcoin trading platform Digital Assets Holdings as CEO in March, said: “Distributed ledger technology does have the potential to be disruptive of certain business models. But it has […]

Markets  ·  5 June 2015
JP Morgan

Former JPMorgan Exec Blythe Masters Swaps Wall Street for Bitcoin

Ex-JP Morgan Chase & Co executive Blythe Masters has joined bitcoin trading platform Digital Assets Holdings LLC as chief executive.

Business  ·  11 March 2015