Digital Asset (or Digital Asset Holdings, LLC) is a financial technology company that builds products based on distributed ledger technology (DLT) for regulated financial institutions, such as financial market infrastructure providers, CCPs, CSDs, exchanges, banks, custodians and their market participants.
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Company
Digital Asset was founded in 2014 by Sunil Hirani and Don R. Wilson, and Blythe Masters was named as CEO in March 2015. It is headquartered in New York City, USA with additional offices in London, Sydney, Zurich and Budapest. It currently employs over 130 people.
The board is comprised of Michael Bodson, Cristobal Conde, Peter Hiom, Sunil Hirani, Sallie Krawcheck, Ashwin Kumar, Blythe Masters, George Nunn, Sanoke Viswanathan, and Don R. Wilson.
To date, $110M in funding has been raised from fifteen investors (ABN Amro, Accenture, Australian Securities Exchange, BNP Paribas, Broadridge, Citi, CME Group, Deutsche Börse Group, Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, Goldman Sachs, IBM, JPMorgan Chase, NEX, PNC Financial Services, and Banco Santander). The company has strategic business relationships with Accenture, Broadridge, IBM and PwC to help scale and accelerate the adoption and deployment its technology.
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History
June 2015: The company acquired Bits of Proof, which had developed an enterprise-grade implementation of blockchain server security tools.
June 2015: The company acquired Hyperledger, which had developed a permissioned distributed ledger that did not requiring native cryptocurrency, and was designed specifically for financial institutions. On June 25, 2015 the Moneybeat column from The Wall Street Journal wrote that the "acquisition of HyperLedger might raise eyebrows in the bitcoin community, where there is aversion to the idea that Wall Street might co-opt blockchain technology and strip it of its decentralized nature." In 2016 the company donated the Hyperledger name to the Linux Foundation.
September 2015: Company software was used in the US$5 million initial public offering of Pivit, a gaming company.
October 2015: The company acquired Blockstack.io, which had developed a blockchain-as-a-service offering for financial institutions to develop and test applications using Blockstack's APIs and SDK.
January 2016: Selected by the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) to develop solutions for the Australian market with initial focus on post-trade (clearing and settlement) services in the cash equities market.
March 2016: Selected by the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) to develop and test a proof of concept for managing the clearing and settlement of U.S. Treasury, Agency, and Agency Mortgage-Backed repurchase agreement (repo) transactions.
April 2016: The company acquired Elevence, which had developed a domain specific language to safely and securely model and execute complex financial agreements with certainty and finality, while preserving data confidentiality.
September 2016: Signed an agreement with SIX Securities Services to develop a prototype for securities lifecycle processing.
December 2017: ASX announced the decision to replace their Clearing House Electronic Subregister System with distributed ledger technology developed by Digital Asset.
The Digital Asset Platform
The company's primary offering is the Digital Asset Platform, a common foundation on which financial services applications can be built using DLT to mutualize market infrastructure across distinct market participants while maintaining confidentiality and scalability. Participants in the Platform share a single source of truth which provides continuous data integrity, any desired or mandated degree of transparency and the opportunity for rapid innovation.
The Platform includes Digital Asset Modeling Language (DAML); a domain specific language that enforces consistent interpretation and application of business logic, and provides a real-time, auditable log of ordered evidences of events. These evidences are cryptographically linked to private trade data that is replicated selectively among only those parties entitled to view or interact with it. By combining a network-wide, replicated DLT log and partially replicated reference data, each participant can create their subsection of the ledger with full confidence that it is consistent with that of other parties.
An overview of the Digital Asset Platform can be found in a non-technical whitepaper published by the company in December 2016.
Projects
Digital Asset has publicly announced three projects:
Australian Securities Exchange (ASX): ASX selected Digital Asset as a technology partner to develop, test and demonstrate to ASX a working prototype of a post-trade platform for the cash equity market using DLT. Following the success of the prototype, ASX entered into an agreement for Digital Asset to develop a CHESS (Clearing House Electronic Subregister System) DLT-based replacement candidate. In December 2017 ASX formalized a decision to move forward with the replacement of CHESS with distributed ledger technology developed by Digital Asset.
Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC): DTCC contracted Digital Asset to develop a clearing and settlement solution for repurchase agreement (repo) transactions. The goal is to reduce risk and capital requirements for the repo market by enabling DTCC's Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) to become the settlement counterparty in real-time.
SIX Securities Services (SIX): SIX Securities Services selected Digital Asset to develop a prototype that demonstrates the commercial viability of DLT across the Swiss financial market. The initial phase was to build a prototype for securities lifecycle processing using the Digital Asset Platform.
References
External links
- Official website
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