Industry Blockchain Website digitalasset.com Founded 2014 | Area served Global Headquarters New York City | |
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Digital Asset (or Digital Asset Holdings, LLC), a software company, develops and builds distributed ledger technology solutions for the financial services industry. Its software maps business logic and legal processes to cryptographic signature flows, as well as commits transactions to private or public distributed ledgers or traditional databases depending on the requirements of the use case. The company offers its software for various market segments, such as loans, securities, derivatives, and foreign exchange. It serves various customers, including banks, dealers, exchanges, central securities depositories, custodians, central clearing counterparties, and other critical infrastructure providers worldwide. Digital Asset has strategic partnerships with Accenture, Broadridge, and PwC. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in San Francisco, Tel Aviv, Budapest, and London.
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In March 2015 the company appointed Blythe Masters as CEO.
In September 2015 the company software was used in the US$5 million initial public offering of Pivit, a gaming company.
Acquisitions
In June 2015 the company acquired blockchain technology companies Hyperledger (not to be confused with the Linux Foundation's Hyperledger project) and Bits of Proof. On June 25, 2015 the Moneybeat column from The Wall Street Journal wrote that the "acquisition of HyperLedger might raise eyebrows in the bitcoin community, where there is aversion to the idea that Wall Street might co-opt blockchain technology and strip it of its decentralized nature."
In October 2015 the company acquired the blockchain technology company BlockStack.
In December 2016, the company published a non-technical whitepaper, providing an overview of their platform.