Interview: Sovryn Bitcoin With Edan Yago

In glittery surroundings, next to the skyscrapers of London, the financial capital of the world, a packed room of blockchain enthusiasts heard from Edan Yago, CEO of Epiphyte, former employee at Zynga. We are preparing for a world where “95% of your customers are not human,” he says. The current financial system does not scale for machine to machine transactions, Yago argued, as they address it like a “liberal arts problem” leaving us with a “chain of corresponding banks” which are not interoperable. Visa, for example, does not communicate with mastercard, Yago says. Public blockchains....

PRESS RELEASE. AscendEX is thrilled to announce the listing of the Sovryn token (SOV) under the trading pair USDT/SOV on Sept. 15 at 1 p.m. UTC. Sovryn is a Bitcoin-based decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol launched in early 2020. The Sovryn platform provides the tools to trade, lend, and leverage Bitcoin and other assets permissionlessly, secured by the Bitcoin Blockchain with minimal gas fees. Their platform features a trading interface uniquely designed for Bitcoin-native DeFi users with no transaction limits and support for multiple assets to trade. Sovryn aims to connect Bitcoin....

Edan Yago looks to reclaim "decentralized finance" as Bitcoin's, not Ethereum's, turf.

Edan Yago is CEO of Epiphyte and a founding board member of the Digital Asset Transfer Authority (DATA). Epiphyte develops systems that bridge the gap between traditional financial networks and cryptofinancial networks. The views expressed in the article below are Yago's own, and do not necessarily reflect those of DATA. Last week was a turning point for bitcoin and distributed cryptographic networks. It started with the Inside Bitcoins conference in New York, where it became clear that the bitcoin world is truly starting to live up to its promise of creating the most secure financial....

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....