Last week, financial giants HSBC
Baton Systems, the firm behind the Core-FX distributed ledger technology said the two British and American banks are using the platform to settle forex trades using real currencies and real accounts, in less than three minutes. The technology avoids passing the trades through CLS, a third-party bank widely used in the sector for settling forex trades, meaning such rapid settlement directly between the two banks reduces exposure and settlement risks. Faster settlement results in a shorter period of tying up costly capital and liquidity to insure against a trade going wrong.
The move by the two storied Wall Street names signifies further institutional adoption of blockchain technology in finance.
Here is the rest of the week in review:
CoinMarketCap suffered a major glitch Tuesday that caused a wave of wildly inaccurate pricing across the crypto sector. Popular data provider CoinMarketCap and crypto exchange Coinbase
InfiniteWorld announced Monday it is going public via a merger deal with special purpose acquisition company Aries I Acquisition Corp
Crypto prices dipped to $2.2 trillion this week. For the majors, Avalanche (AVAX) entered the top 10 and Terra (LUNA) soared, while the others largely dropped. In the top 100, the biggest decliners were Gala (GALA), down 22%, Internet Computer (ICP), down 21%, and BitTorrent (BTT), down 21%. The biggest gainers were yearn.finance (YFI), up 44%, Arweave (AR), up 36%, and Decred (DCR), up 29%.
The author owns a small amount of BTC.
- 1. https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/hsbc-wells-fargo-use-blockchain-settle-forex-trades-2021-12-13/
- 2. https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/coinbase-coinmarketcap-crypto-price-glitch-exchange-data-provider-trading-error-2021-12
- 3. https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/12/13/metaverse-company-infiniteworld-to-go-public-in-700m-spac-merger/