Digital Asset

Banking

Digital Asset Loses Second CTO in 6 Months as Startup Shake-up Continues

James Powell, CIO and CTO of engineering at Digital Asset, has left the enterprise blockchain startup after just six months.

Business  ·  13 February 2019
Supply Chain

Accenture Puts Software License Management on a Blockchain Platform

Accenture has rolled out a new software license management application built with distributed ledger tech from Digital Asset.

Business  ·  12 November 2018
Hong Kong

Hong Kong Stock Exchange Taps Digital Asset for Post-Trade Blockchain Trial

The Hong Kong Stock Exchange has teamed up with DLT startup Digital Asset to develop a blockchain platform for post-trade processing.

Business  ·  31 October 2018
Quorum

Accenture Tech Now Connects Corda, Fabric, DA and Quorum Blockchains

Accenture says its new "interoperability node" can connect the four big enterprise platforms: Hyperledger Fabric, R3 Corda, Quorum and Digital Asset.

Policy & regulation  ·  22 October 2018
Insurance

Blythe Masters Looks Beyond Finance for Next Wave of Blockchain Growth

The enterprise DLT startup now sees a vast range of opportunities, both within the industry where its founder spent most of her career and outside it.

Policy & regulation  ·  6 August 2018
News

Google Cloud Inks Deal With Blythe Masters’ Blockchain Startup

Google Cloud is teaming up with distributed ledger startup Digital Asset to provide development tools for blockchain apps.

Business  ·  23 July 2018
Digital Asset

Capital Markets Blockchains Are Finally Getting Go-Live Dates

Big financial market infrastructure players detailed their progress on blockchain conversions, with real timelines for going live, at Consensus 2018.

Business  ·  17 May 2018
Australia

ASX Exchange Targets 2020 for DLT Settlement System

The Australian Securities Exchange provided an update on its plans to replace its settlement and clearing system with blockchain technology.

Business  ·  30 April 2018
Identity

Blythe Masters: Business Blockchain Won’t Be ‘Winner-Takes-All’

At the Synchronize 2018 conference in New York City, enterprise blockchains heavyweights made it clear they want to build ethereum-like platforms.

Policy & regulation  ·  19 April 2018
News

Digital Asset Taps Former JP Morgan Exec for ASX Project

Digital Asset has hired Stewart Cowan to work on its clearing and settlement blockchain system for the Australian Securities Exchange.

Business  ·  12 April 2018
Startups

Blythe Masters’ Next Move? Blockchain SDKs

Former JP Morgan executive Blythe Masters recently unveiled a new software suite designed to help propel the next wave of business blockchain growth.

Business  ·  27 March 2018
Digital Asset

Bitcoin Takes All? Enterprise Blockchains Need Time, Too

This is not the kind of technology where you "move fast and break things." Financial market infrastructure is too big to bet on a buzzword.

Business  ·  16 December 2017
Australia

ASX Says Yes: Stock Market to Settle Trades with DLT

After months of testing and deliberation, ASX has confirmed that it will replace its CHESS post-trade system with DLT developed by Digital Asset.

Business  ·  6 December 2017
Startups

DTCC Moves to Next Stage of Digital Asset Blockchain Trial

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has completed the first leg of a post-trade distributed ledger trial with startup Digital Asset.

Business  ·  27 February 2017
IBM

Construct 2017: Experts Ask ‘How Long Until Private Ledgers Go Live?

Private blockchains are on the cusp of leaving the laboratory and heading to the real world. At least, that’s according to bold predictions from some of the Linux Foundation-led Hyperledger projects’s top technical minds during the second day of CoinDesk’s developer conference, Construct 2017. While today, most private blockchain and ledgers remain experimental (with some onlookers even […]

Business  ·  1 February 2017