On a Crypto Finance Conference panel before the Chain.com acquisition announcement, McCaleb and Ludwin discussed public and private networks. "If we want securities or currencies to run over a network like Stellar's network, what do we have to do inside the enterprise to start extracting those assets from the old clunky systems of record and put them into a cryptographic medium?"
Jesse Lund discusses who the customers of World Wire are (“market makers who provide the pay in and pay out locations”) and gives a preview of an upcoming announcement to be made at Money20/20 Asia.
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