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Hyperledger has launched a Special Interest Group ("SIG"), the Hyperledger Capital Markets SIG, to facilitate focused technical and business-level conversations related to appropriate use cases for blockchain technology across Capital Markets.
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When invented, the Blockchain was aimed at global uncensored retail payments through the medium of a digital currency. The original solution has since evolved into a store of value and its exchange among participants in a safe, secure and transparent manner. Many Blockchain solutions have been created to cover issuance and transfer of digital assets, futures and other derivatives. In other words, addressing many of the concepts underlying capital marketsThis and other solutions feature capital markets infrastructure and processes.
The Cambrian explosion of Blockchain solutions covers includes public permissionless to private permissioned. Many of these solutions are in the capital markets sector. Hyperledger houses the most diverse set of primary blockchain frameworks, utilities and libraries. The new SIG helps unify thinking and solutions targeted to capital markets in Hyperledger. In the spirit of the SIG, the CM-SIG is a forum where capital markets business experts and blockchain technical folks come together in a free and open-source manner.
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- Taxonomy, classifying the dimensions of capital markets,
- Standards covering the different types of products
- Use cases, listing the prominent use cases- a draft taxonomy of use cases is available
- Challenges or obstacles that are common to digital ledger technologies DLTs and their particular application to capital markets use cases
- Regulations that apply to the various aspects of this highly regulated industry
- ROI of any particular solution, especially on intangible aspects like trust, transparency and decentralization in capital markets
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