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TgradeFinance

·Sep 15

Privacy without proceeds of crime

The recent paper Blockchain Privacy and Regulatory Compliance: Towards a Practical Equilibrium written by Vitalik Buterin, Jacob Illum, Matthias Nadler, Fabian Schär and Ameen Soleimani is a valuable contribution to the discussion about privacy on a public blockchain with safeguards to ensure that the proceeds of crime cannot flow through…

Privacy

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Privacy without proceeds of crime
Privacy without proceeds of crime
Privacy

4 min read


Jun 30

Can economic models solve all the intractable problems with climate change?

I wrote about creating economic levers to address the short comings of the Voluntary Carbon Credits Markets and proposed a Carbon Default Swap as a mechanism with sufficient flexibility to factor in forward looking data. …

Sustainable Farming

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Can economic models solve all the intractable problems with climate change?
Can economic models solve all the intractable problems with climate change?
Sustainable Farming

11 min read


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TgradeFinance

·Jun 27

Happy Birthday Tgrade!

Tgrade was launched on 27th June 2022 and was bought online by 65 validators around the world. The number of validators has grown to 77 active validators, there have been 86,111 transactions, a large proportion of the tokens remain held by the validators and the foundation with a smaller pool…

Blockchain

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Happy Birthday Tgrade!
Happy Birthday Tgrade!
Blockchain

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Jun 26

Something isn’t well in the sustainable investment space

Sustainable Linked Loans hit the headlines in May 2023[1] as the FCA began an investigation into whether the environmental targets are too easy for companies to meet. The Guardian, De Zeit and Source Material investigation into Vera revealed that 90% of the rainforest carbon certificates[2] are worthless. …

Sustainability

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Something isn’t well in the sustainable investment space
Something isn’t well in the sustainable investment space
Sustainability

9 min read


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TgradeFinance

·Mar 14

DeFi 2.0. Is it different this time? Did we solve the issues?

The summer of DeFi was a blast and hard to keep up with the pace of innovation and experimentation. Taking a step back to the spring of 2021 when I wrote a blog asking the question whether regulatory compliance and crypto were fundamentally compatible? …

Defi

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DeFi 2.0. Is it different this time? Did we solve the issues?
DeFi 2.0. Is it different this time? Did we solve the issues?
Defi

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TgradeFinance

·Mar 1

Tgrade February news

February has been a lively month in the US with many announcements and commentary on the regulatory front. There is an imperative to “do something” in light of what is emerging around how FTX was managed, especially around the theme of custody of client assets. The case around qualified custodians…

Blockchain

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Tgrade February news
Tgrade February news
Blockchain

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TgradeFinance

·Feb 17

Qualified Custodians, a sledge hammer to crack a nut?

The need to “do something” was clear after the FTX debacle, and the response has been swift from the SEC around the need for qualified custodians to cover crypto as they do in traditional finance. I wrote a blog on Smart Contract Counterparty and Custody Risk in April 2022, prompted…

SEC

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Qualified Custodians, a sledge hammer to crack a nut?
Qualified Custodians, a sledge hammer to crack a nut?
SEC

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Published in

TgradeFinance

·Feb 15

Proof of Stake and regulatory uncertainty

I wrote a post in September 2022 about the regulatory uncertainty in the US around Proof of Stake and whether Proof of Stake tokens could be considered securities. …

Proof Of Stake

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Proof of Stake and regulatory uncertainty
Proof of Stake and regulatory uncertainty
Proof Of Stake

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TgradeFinance

·Feb 1

Tgrade January news

2023 has begun with the publication from the Oversight Community of the participant criteria. When the Oversight Community was formed during the early testnets (pre-launch) the criteria was left open and it was the intent that the self-sovereign group determine what the criteria for participation should be. …

Tgradefinance

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Tgrade January news
Tgrade January news
Tgradefinance

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TgradeFinance

·Jan 19

Oversight Community participant criteria

When the Oversight Community was first established it was a voyage of discovery. …

Governance

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Oversight Community participant criteria
Oversight Community participant criteria
Governance

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Martin Worner

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