Big news in TradFi + Crypto:
UK-regulated bank @monument_bank (managing ~£7B in deposits) is set to become the first UK bank to tokenize retail customer deposits on a public blockchain.
They’re partnering with the privacy-focused @MidnightNtwrk . Game-changer for everyday banking on-chain. 🧵1/5
this has been a long time in the making and just the starting point for building out the future of compliant, private, on-chain finance.
@fuzzydaniel@gracietech@latticecut
Today we announce with pride that after years of quiet work our portfolio company @monument_bank is partnering @midnightfdn to deliver the world’s first tokenized retail deposits by a fully licensed bank. https://t.co/ldu8kdGtCg
Join my co-founder @niallroche today as he demos our agentic contracting platform @realregulartech with @SuiNetwork to find out more about controlling the robots 🤖 beep boop!
🚀 @thebldgblocks just launched @PROOFofBRAND – a Web3 branding & comms agency! 🔥 Strong brands = more users, more trust, more adoption. Follow along to learn how to build effective, sophisticated Web3 brands that move the space forward. 👀🏆
CC: @gracietech@thebldgblocks
At #DeCC Day in Singapore and looking forward to using Decentralised Confidential Compute applications for execution of privacy preserving applications. Great panels with @SecretNetwork@akashnet@COTInetwork@arcium
Just wrapped at an JPEG ISO standards meeting giving our contributions on the complex media tokensation ecosystem. Looking forward to working on standards for improve trust in this space for both content creators and consumers. @thebldgblocks@UCLSoM@uclcs @DLT_Science @Adobe
4 days of @DeComputeConf & side events at #Token2049 seeing the future of custody, key management and #crypto wallets. This an important area for increasing the adoption of #digitalassets that we are helping to improve at @thebldgblocks
A great set of events at @EthCC@encodeclub & #BOS23 last week in #Paris. It was great to see Vitalik speak about how far the industry has come with #AccountAbstraction and where the future is headed
Shout out to @latticecut for organising an insightful developer roundtable with @sama and the team from @OpenAI to get feedback from devs using #LLMs. Refreshing to hear Sam start the session by saying “I’m willing to talk about anything, I want to hear your complaints”
My brilliant partner at @thebldgblocks — @latticecut — was asked to organise @OpenAI’s London stop on their world tour. I had the privilege of hearing @sama in convo with the brilliant @azeem yesterday at @ucl on all things future of AI, a truly stimulating discussion ✨
Delighted to have presented at the inaugural #UKFintech Academic Network, thanks to @MarkosZach and also to @PirateOrg and for a assembling a great panel. @thebldgblocks @uclcbt @DLT_Science