R3 Announces New Distributed Ledger Technology Corda
Consortium startup R3CEV today announced it is working on a distributed ledger that might otherwise be considered a blockchain, but which the company made perfectly clear is anything but. Far from the permissionless ledger of transactions popularized by bitcoin, R3's technology, called Corda, claims to be tailor-made for financial institutions. The only information that’s decentralized is whatever the members choose is necessary. In a blog post published today, R3’s chief technology officer and the man in charge of the project, Richard Gendal Brown, described one of the key differences....
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A Barclays team has demonstrated a derivative trade using Corda, a distributed ledger platform. What challenges does Corda have to overcome before becoming the future of derivative contracts? R3 is a consortium partnership of over 40 of the world's leading banks, working on advanced distributed ledger technologies for the global financial markets. In early April 2016, R3 revealed the distributed ledger platform for financial services – Corda. Corda has been designed to manage financial agreements between regulated financial institutions. Key features of Corda include no unnecessary global....
R3’s Corda distributed ledger platform will support digital currencies later, a spokesperson for the financial innovation company has confirmed. Corda was used by R3 and over 15 of its consortium member banks to successfully complete two prototypes that demonstrate how distributed ledger technology can address the key challenges facing the $45 billion global trade finance industry. The spokesperson says to CoinTelegraph: “The prototypes didn’t require native currencies, but the products we are developing will be designed to support existing fiat currencies and native digital currencies.”....
R3's Corda distributed financial ledger platform will soon become open source as it becomes part of the Hyperleger project. Corda, the distributed financial ledger created by R3CEV led international banking consortium for blockchain technology will be made open source. The latest development was announced by the consortium recently. According to news reports, the codes for R3 consortium’s Corda blockchain platform will be handed over to the Hyperledger project. Hyperledger project is an initiative of Linux Foundation along with some of the leading information technology, blockchain....
Corda, the distributed financial ledger solution created by R3 led banking consortium can drastically reduce the time taken to process transactions, increasing profits by 10%-15%. R3 Blockchain Consortium, a group comprising over 50 major financial and tech institutions across the globe, has been successful in solving various trade challenges using the blockchain technology. The New York-based fintech firm has recently announced an unprecedented success with its Corda distributed financial ledger. The trial involving invoice financing and letter of credit transactions was conducted in....
In a recent blog, “When is a blockchain not a blockchain” R3 noted that its Corda product is a distributed ledger and not a blockchain, and that it was never stated as such. The blog was in response to public comments claiming that R3 has only recently recognized that blockchain technology will not address wholesale financial industry needs. The blog noted R3 is flattered by the attention Corda has recently received after sources noted that the words “No block chain’ because we don’t need one” was used in an R3 presentation. The blog said R3 has from the beginning referred to Corda as a....