In the September issue of Communications of the ACM, Camille Fournier, the head of platform development for a leading New York City hedge fund, sits down with Shaul Kfir, CTO and co-founder of Digital Asset, to discuss distributed-ledger technology (DLT) and DAML, the open source smart contract language developed by Digital Asset. In the interview, "DAML: The Contract Language of...

Broadridge Financial Solutions writes about why the repo market presents an ideal use case for distributed ledger technology and why they're using DAML to build an innovative bilateral repo platform. Imagine a world where all participants on a repo transaction share a single view throughout the lifecycle of the trade. Where having a single source of record on a platform that defined the...

Digital Asset's co-founder and CTO Shaul Kfir attended Collision 2019 in Toronto and spoke to Joshua Whiting of the ChangeWave podcast series by Treehouse, the provider of affordable and accessible technology education that helps people learn how to code. Joshua asks Shaul about his career, achieving success and the importance of building diverse teams. Watch Video >

In this video from JLN’s Industry Leader Series, Digital Asset Chief Strategy Officer Zohar Hod talks about public versus private blockchains and how Digital Asset is positioning itself within the digital asset infrastructure space. Watch Video >

The first chance to access the exchange’s new build heralds profound changes to come. As milestones go, next week will be a quiet one: on Monday, April 29, the Australia Stock Exchange (ASX) will allow brokers to begin connecting to its new back-office systems based on blockchain. There won’t be a celebration or ticket tape. It’s just the start of a long process involving I.T....

Would you like your software to be more reliable, harder to hack and cheaper to run? Then, if you aren’t already in on the act, it may be time to embrace functional programming – a maths-based approach that is challenging the status quo at financial firms. Proponents of functional languages say they are better at handling certain financial operations than the dominant, so-called...

Digital Asset made waves at Global Custodian’s Industry Leaders Awards event in New York as Kelly Mathieson, head of financial products, took home the coveted North America Industry Person of the Year award. We speak to Kelly on how industry attitudes have shifted around blockchain technology and its potential for clearing and settlement. Read More >

Google is increasingly betting that blockchain technology, which creates a permanent ledger across multiple computers, will be key to competing with Amazon and Microsoft in cloud services. To that end, Google and the New York-based startup Digital Asset announced a partnership on Monday to bring blockchain to Google Cloud. “We’re partnering with Google Cloud to provide developers with a...

The blockchain revolution is here. The technology long associated with Bitcoin is now being used to make businesses as varied as trade finance, videogaming, travel insurance, and diamond mining more efficient and more secure. Read More > (Subscription required)

Big technology companies have routinely failed to hire women for new projects, or promote them to management and board positions. But with blockchain, women have led the way on some of the most important projects, both at tech companies and start-ups. Read More > (subscription required)