Ethereum Swaps Tool Added to Microsoft's Blockchain Sandbox
ConsenSys has added a new decentralized application (Dapp) to its Ethereum blockchain-as-a-service toolkit available on Microsoft's cloud computing platform Azure. Called the Ethereum Total Return Swap (eTRS), the application aims to serve as both a functional and an example use case that will allow internal tech teams at Microsoft Azure clients to better understand and utilize the toolkit, first announced in October. Marley Gray, Microsoft's director of technology strategy for financial services explained that the offering part of the tech giant's ongoing partnership with ConsenSys,....
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