Blockchain

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has proposed a new system that would allow the blockchain's users to generate obfuscated addresses and receive funds privately on the network.

Nadine Chakar will take the helm at Securrency from current CEO Dan Doney, who will become chief technology officer.

A blueprint for a shared ledger for digital money would include central bank digital currencies, bank deposits and e-money from companies like PayPal — but not unsupervised cryptocurrencies.

A Federal Reserve Bank of New York unit will partner with almost a dozen banks and other financial institutions to test out digital dollars, a sign that Wall Street intends to push ahead with its cryptocurrency agenda despite recent upheaval in the market. 

FV Bank will let customers hold, transfer and settle both digital assets and fiat currencies in one account.

A neon purple vending machine dispensing nonfungible tokens for £10 ($11.18) a pop has materialized in the middle of London, drawing frosty stares from passers-by in the British capital. 

JPMorgan Chase executed its first live trade on a public blockchain, a significant step toward integrating with the plumbing underlying the world of cryptocurrencies.

Anchorage Digital Bank and the Provenance Blockchain Foundation have partnered to let banks take a stake in the Provenance blockchain, run nodes of it and receive fees and peace of mind in return.

Customers Bank, Cogent Bank and Western Alliance bank settled 400  transactions among themselves in real time, over the course of eight hours.

Angel Oak Capital Advisors has helped institutional clients buy subordinated debt with the assistance of a distributed ledger developed by Brightvine. Benefits to the issuer and investors include a central place to find all documents and automated updates when banks pay off their loans.

SWIFT, the messaging system used by financial institutions globally to convey instructions on tens of millions of transactions each day, is testing out blockchain.

Participants include Digital Asset and Ripple alongside others involved with foreign central bank digital currencies. The program is set to begin next month.

Flow Traders and Hudson River Trading have backed Sei Labs, a crypto startup founded by Goldman Sachs and Robinhood Markets veterans that is developing a blockchain aimed at speeding up decentralized finance transactions.

The nine banks in the group are experimenting with lending, secondary market and payments activities on the Provenance blockchain as they seek ways to perform basic banking tasks more efficiently.

To create sensible rules around decentralized finance, regulators have to have an open discussion with businesses in the industry. To do that, they must create a path for collaboration.

Banks need to come together to create interoperable tokenized deposits, as part of an effort to bridge the gap between traditional finance and blockchain.

The New York City bank bets that claiming space in virtual reality now will pay off down the line.

The two San Francisco-based companies are seeking to provide a one-click cryptocurrency checkout system to simplify digital shopping.