Blockchain Project Aims to Bring Speed, Transparency to Wall Street Trading
Coinsetter has launched Project High Line, a blockchain-based technology that it claims will improve Wall Street's "outdated" trading system. The New York-based firm says that the project will help to attain a "stark transparency", replacing Wall Street's current settlement rails with a traceable blockchain-based peer-to-peer (P2P) system, giving market participants further control of their assets. The High Line Project's "On-Blockchain Settlement" will also enable clients trading on the exchange to view their funds on the blockchain in near real time, without the need for an intermediary.....
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