Epiphyte's Crypto Solution for Banks Wins Sibos Startup Challenge

Epiphyte's Crypto Solution for Banks Wins Sibos Startup Challenge

Crypto-finance company Epiphyte has won the SWIFT Innotribe Startup Competition at the Sibos 2014 technology and innovation trade show in Boston. The company earned the competition's $50,000 'Top Startup' award with cBridge, its first crypto product targeted at international banking and financial institutions. Epiphyte CEO and founder Edan Yago said it was "very gratifying" to win the prize at the world's largest banking convention. He added that banks, bitcoin and other distributed ledger systems have a lot to learn from each other. Epiphyte specialises in distributed ledger solutions for....


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