Nasdaq Picks Chain for its Blockchain ‘Private Market’
Nasdaq has named blockchain API developer Chain as the first company that will be trialing a blockchain backed version of the group's Private Market for trading pre-IPO company's shares. In an announcement on June 24, Nasdaq OMX Group explained that Chain would be the first company on the Private Market to be issuing, cataloging, and managing transactions of their privately issued shares through blockchain technology. The problem the companies are trying to solve is the difficult bookkeeping and paperwork currently associated with issuing shares in a private company. The paper records used....
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In an announcement today, Nasdaq revealed the issuance of its client Chain.com’s share to a private investor using the company’s private-market blockchain platform Linq. Calling it a ‘major advance’ in blockchain technology for private companies, a Nasdaq press release has announced the issuance of shares by Chain.com to a private investor using its blockchain-powered trading platform, Linq. The transfer of share represents the first-ever successful private issuance of shares using blockchain technology. The transaction represents a quick leap from launch to operations for Nasdaq’s Linq, a....
At the Money 20/20 conference in Las Vegas, Nasdaq revealed its new trading platform Linq with its first demonstration. The institution revealed earlier this year they would trial blockchain technology to see how it handled share trading. Nasdaq Group CEO Robert Greifeld told the conference the first participants will include Chain, Vera, Tango, ChangeTip and more. Nasdaq is one of the largest services offering trading, clearing, exchange technology in both public and private markets. Linq is a blockchain enabled technology that initiates various aspects of trading shares through the....
Nasdaq hasn't been around Bitcoin's Block Chain very long, but they like what they see and are moving to integrate fully with its innovations. The new technology the block chain provides intrigues Nasdaq enough to begin a larger integration with their product portfolio, and the ability to make new offerings for their clientele. In the second half of 2015, this will allow Nasdaq to create a block chain-enabled digital ledger program for the expansion and enhancement of the Nasdaq Private Market platform. NASDAQ Expands Use of Bitcoin's Block Chain Technology. Their implementation of the....
Chain is shutting down its free Bitcoin API service as a part of a wider effort to become an enterprise blockchain technology solutions provider from an API service provider. Chain, a blockchain technology startup has announced the end of its free Bitcoin API service. The San Francisco-based company secured a $30 million investment in a round of funding in September, with investors such as Visa, Nasdaq and Citi. Initially, Chain -through the use of its API and system nodes - offered services as an API services provider to bitcoin platforms. By hitting the kill switch on its free API....