Making securities available via the blockchain to investors worldwide

San Francisco, CA
Joined March 2018
Unpopular opinion: decentralization alone is not a value preposition. 🤔
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1/ This thread talks about the different risks DeFi platforms face and why me and a few others @ConsenSys have spent the last few months researching and drafting a risk assessment framework for DeFi platforms
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#DeFi stands for “Decentralized Finance” and represents a technology to build the well-known financial tools on top of Satoshi’s blockchain (and all the derived networks) in order to improve them. medium.com/weidex/defi-%D0%B…
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Following our recent Ethereum-based bond issuance I have some general observations about security tokens and blockchains:
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People have been asking for the transactions that we did to clear and settle the $20 million bond on the Ethereum mainnet.
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Asset manager Franklin Templeton plans to use the Stellar blockchain to record shares in a new money market fund. @wsfoxley reports coindesk.com/franklin-temple…
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We need use cases for crypto, not high TPS without use cases.
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The growth of DeFi over the last year has been astounding. Around 2M ETH is locked up in DeFi currently. How much more ETH do you think will be locked up in the next year? Or in the next 5 years?
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tZERO Security Tokens Now Tradable by Non-Accredited Investors | Business Wire businesswire.com/news/home/2… $tzrop $ostk @tzeroblockchain #SecurityToken #Blockchain
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Overstock Will Open tZERO Security Token Market to Retail Traders Next Week coindesk.com/overstock-will-… via @CoinDesk @tzeroblockchain $tzrop $ostk #Blockchain #securitytokens
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EXCLUSIVE: Seychelles' stock exchange has just listed a tokenized security representing its own equity in an apparent world first. ow.ly/kyKg50vqD3R
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Fetch retweeted
🎉 Today marks the 1st year since #DeFi was conceptualized It's inspiring to see all of the progress that's been made by everyone in just a year This was a brainstorming session including @brendan_dharma, @HendoVentures, and me when we were deciding what to call the movement 👇
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Join Meter, Compound, 0x, Maker, dy/dx and other prolific #DeFi projects on August 22nd. Varied discussions on topics including stable coins, lending and decentralized exchanges. RSVP 👉meetup.com/Meter-Decentraliz… More DeFi events: defiprime.com/events
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"We firmly believe that security tokens are the next generation of how the world will trade value." - @tzeroblockchain CEO Saum Noursalehi finance.yahoo.com/news/tzero… via @YahooFinance #securitytokens #digitalsecurities
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JUST IN: A new security token platform has launched with backing from Singapore stock exchange @SGX and technical help from @ConsenSys ow.ly/dtrX50uX5om @WolfieZhao reports.
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A lot of you developers want to be better developers. There's an easy way to do do that: TRUFFLECON! From AUG 2-4 in Redmond, WA, @trufflesuite's #TruffleCon will make your blockchain development dreams come true* for only $99! ▶️▶️trufflesuite.com/trufflecon2… *not guaranteed
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We just published the first in a 3 part series about the new Alethio platform. The first entry provides a deep dive on our updated, plug-in based explorer: medium.com/alethio/exploring…. Let us know what you think!
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. @MakerDAO is a security token superpower that is moving towards a multi-collateral implementation of their protocol, which means that a total loss of value would not wreck the system - @hansmeet, co-founder and CEO of @hello_fetch Article: thetokenizer.io/2019/03/11/s…
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Security tokens will be the ‘killer app’ of cryptocurrency, Overstock CEO says bit.ly/2XtiiiM
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