Coinprism Launches Open-Source Permissioned Ledger With Bitcoin 'Anchors'

Coinprism Launches Open-Source Permissioned Ledger With Bitcoin 'Anchors'

Coinprism, the colored coin startup that created the Open Assets protocol as experimented with by NASDAQ and Overstock, has announced Openchain. Openchain is an open-source distributed permissioned ledger with optional "anchors" into the Bitcoin blockchain. It is designed to solve Bitcoin's scalability and compliance issues as encountered by financial....


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Coinprism Launches OpenChain, an Open-Source Distributed Ledger

Coinprism, the blockchain technology company that developed the Open Assets standard "colored coins" that is now used by the likes of NASDAQ and Overstock has released Openchain, an open source distributed ledger targeting financial institutions. Openchain, unlike bitcoin is based on a central, distributed ledger that will allow any enterprise user, company or an institution to use their own version of the chain. This functionality helps with lowering costs, reducing transaction times and Openchain users can also use the chain to interconnect with each other. Instead of transactions being....

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Coinprism and Open Assets: ‘Gateway Currencies Are Entirely Unnecessary’

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NewsBTC got together with Flavien Charlon, Coinprism CEO and founder, where he talked about colored Coins and the Open Assets Protocol. Coinprism is a free of charge online Bitcoin wallet and Token platform that enables users to store and develop their own coin. Coinprism is based on the Open Assets Protocol. Bitcoin’s scripting language allows to keep small quantities of metadata on the blockchain, which may be used to symbolize asset manipulation instructions. As an example, we can encode in a Bitcoin transaction that one hundred units of a brand new asset had been issued and at the....