Blythe Masters' Digital Asset Holdings Acquires Blockchain Startup Blockstack
In yet another blockchain related investment, Blythe Masters' Digital Asset Holdings has announced the acquisition of Blockstack.io. Digital Asset has been on a blockchain-startups purchasing spree lately, with the Bits of Proof and Hyperledger acquired earlier in June this year. The New-York based company headed by CEO Blythe Masters has today, announced the purchase of another blockchain startup Blockstack. The deal was concluded for an undisclosed sum. Blockstack, based in San Francisco offers financial institutions the means to develop applications using APIs and SDKs on a private....
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San Francisco-based blockchain startup Blockstack.io has entered into an acquisition agreement with Digital Asset Holdings. The deal, announced this morning, marks the latest acquisition by Digital Asset, which announced it had purchased blockchain startups Bits of Proof and Hyperledger earlier this year. Launched in June, Blockstack is one of a number of startups seeking to offer private blockchain services to the world's finance industry. In August, CEO Peter Shiau told CoinDesk his company was working with prospective clients to better understand how the technology can be applied to....
Blythe Masters, the former JPMorgan executive who helped pioneer credit derivatives in the 1990s, has re-emerged as chief executive of Digital Asset Holdings. The Digital Asset Holdings is a venue for buyers and sellers of financial assets to meet and transact, switching currencies into bitcoin in order to cut the cost and time of settlement and make use of the decentralised Blockchain. Blythe Masters sits on the Top of blockchain technology startup Digital Asset Holdings, where she became the CEO in March. She spent 27 years at JPMorgan Chase, where she held some leadership positions,....
Blythe Masters. Digital Asset Holdings' CEO Blythe Masters has reportedly turned down an offer for a top management position at Barclays to stick with her blockchain technology startup. Blythe Masters, CEO of New York-based Digital Asset has turned down the chance to "run" Barclays' investment banking division and chose to stay with her current blockchain-based startup Digital Holdings. Masters is among the most prominent figures on Wall Street and is known as one of the creators of the credit derivatives market. She left JP Morgan after 27 years with the bank and joined Digital Asset....
The year 2015 has been quite a significant one for Bitcoin regarding the amount of VC funding flowing into the world of digital currency. However, not every Bitcoin startup is seeing its fair share of success, despite initial excitement regarding what they want to bring to the table. Blythe Masters’ Bitcoin startup – called Digital Asset Holdings – is struggling to secure additional funding, When a former JPMorgan Chase star banker is having a hard time securing deals with other investors for her new Bitcoin startup, things are looking rather bleak. Although it has to be said these....
The Chamber of Digital Commerce (CDC), a digital currency advocacy group, has appointed former Wall Street executive Blythe Masters to its board of advisors. Masters who joined Digital Asset Holdings - a startup that uses blockchain tech to enhance the settlement of traditional and digital assets - as CEO in March spoke about her new advisory role. She said: