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There’s a market for more markets
For most of financial history, the supply of new markets — not demand — was the bottleneck. Blockchains remove that bottleneck. I believe this will unlock an explosion of net new markets.
Markets are mechanisms for transferring risk. Every...
The rise of the $700-billion RWA perp market
Trading in perpetual futures tied to stocks, gold, and other traditional assets is growing fast. And most of that activity is happening on centralized exchanges.
These contracts, often referred to as real-world asset (or RWA) perps, give t...
Banks don’t need closed blockchains. So why do they keep choosing them?
This article was written by Rebecca Rettig, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Legal Officer of Jito Labs, a technology startup that develops Solana blockchain software and infrastructure.
Financial institutions are taking advantage of one...
How to prove software ran correctly — on a phone or GPU, in a post-quantum world
Yesterday, we released Lattice Jolt, a new version of our open source zkVM (zero-knowledge virtual machine). The architecture is the same one that already made Jolt the fastest and simplest zkVM available. What changes with this new version...
When throughput is not enough: What financial markets need from blockchains
Finance is one of the most obvious use cases for blockchains. It’s also one of the most demanding. A benefit of blockchains, often referenced in the context of financial use cases, is that they bring assets, ownership records, and execution...
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