Finality, Settlement, and Validation: The Place to Start
One of the most important concepts in capital market transactions is settlement and finality. Even though the payment infrastructure gets the majority of airtime, settlement…
Many Rights Make the KoreProtocol Right
Over the last few weeks, we have seen the highly entertaining farce of Craig Wright claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto by registering a copyright to…
Minimizing Failure Vector Surfaces for Digital Securities
Modern capitalists and ancient Chinese may disagree on many things, but the one thing they do seem to agree on relates to security of the…
Who do you trust with your Crypto?
“The great thing about trustless cryptocurrency systems is just how many incompetents you have to trust along the way.” – David Gerard, author of Attack…
The Right Technology – The Case of Mercury Cash
Nothing proves the wisdom of choosing the right technology for the right job than the case of Mercury Cash, a hosted-wallet solution for real-time liquidation…
Decentralized vs Distributed Systems Part I
Blockchain per se is not about decentralization; rather, it is a distributed system technology. The two terms, decentralized system and distributed system, are often confused,…
Technologies of Blockchain Part 4: Conclusion
In parts 1, 2 and 3, we briefly touched on some of the historical foundations of blockchains from computer science and mathematics, including their sub-topics…
Technologies of Blockchain Part 3: Cryptography, Scaling, and Consensus
In Part 2, we saw how a simple concept of a linked list can morph into complex, distributed systems. Obviously, this is a simple, conceptual…
Technologies of Blockchain – Part 2: Distributed Systems
We saw in Part 1 that linked lists provide the conceptual foundation for blockchain, where a ‘block’ is a package of data and blocks are…
Technologies of Blockchain – Part 1: The Foundations
Blockchain is not just a single technology but a package of a number of technologies and techniques. The rich lexicon in the blockchain includes terms…
The Three Fallacies of Smart Contracts
Smart contracts have become popular due to the extensibility of the Ethereum blockchain beyond its main foundation as a cryptocurrency platform, where it competes with…
Forking – the New ‘F’ Word in Blockchain
Forking seems to be an integral part of the Blockchain architecture. This is due to Blockchain’s decentralized nature and the need to establish systemic trust…
Joining Hyperledger to Revolutionize Tokenization of Private Securities Globally
We are thrilled to announce our membership in the Hyperledger Project. This was a carefully thought-out decision, but given the nature of our business, a…
A Big Lesson from the Delaware Blockchain Amendments
Andrea Tinianow, the founding director of the Delaware Blockchain Initiative (and ‘Blockchain Czarina’), recently published a very insightful article on the significant gap in the…
A Security Token for Full Lifecycle Compliance
ICOs suffer from disapproval from not only the SEC but also several media that have banned ICO advertising. This disapproval seems justified, since many of the…
Introducing the KoreChain
The KoreChain is the first blockchain on a serious industrial-strength infrastructure that is focused exclusively on the complex world of global financial securities. The KoreChain…
