R3 Corda Blockchain Solution Focuses On Financial Agreements
“There isn’t some law of nature that says the set of people who have to be in consensus is the whole world. Bitcoin just happens to work that way because of its unique business problem. If you don’t have Bitcoin’s business problem then be very wary of those trying to sell you something that looks like a Bitcoin solution.” The R3 consortium is actively developing a blockchain solution that can integrate with the existing legacy system, and their partnership with a lot of the world’s leading banks will help them achieve that goal. Corda, their distributed ledger platform for managing....
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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 blockchain software Corda, developed by the Fintech startup alongside 70 of the world’s biggest banks forming the R3 consortium, is now available on Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, Azure. Announced quietly last week, the revelation comes soon after Corda’s code was contributed to the Linux Foundation-led Hyperledger Project on November 30. R3 first announced its decision to go open-source with Corda, the product of its Concord blockchain product, in October this year. Elaborating on R3’s year-long development, Richard Brown, technology chief at R3 claims: Corda is a distributed....
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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....