Ethereum Landed Its Biggest Partner Yet — SWIFT, Confirms Joe Lubin
Ethereum co-founder and ConsenSys chief Joseph Lubin appeared on Bloomberg Crypto on October 7 and confirmed that ConsenSys is building the prototype for SWIFT’s new blockchain-based shared ledger—an initiative that, according to SWIFT’s own announcement last week at Sibos in Frankfurt, will bolt a permissioned, always-on ledger into the global messaging cooperative’s infrastructure and natively […]
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Thankfully, nearly four in five attacks have not resulted in fraudulent transactions taking place. The year 2016 has not been overly positive for the SWIFT payment network. More than a year after the system was used to steal US%81m from the Bank of Bangladesh, security vulnerabilities are still present. Despite issuing a warning to partner banks on November 2nd, the network threat remains “very persistent” and will not go away anytime soon. In a letter issued to SWIFT partners in November, the group indicated there are still lingering vulnerabilities affecting the SWIFT messaging network.....
Joseph Lubin, a co-founder of Ethereum and chief executive of Consensys, used an X post on 19 June to deliver what may be his most expansive valuation thesis yet for Ether. After praising a research note that likened ETH to “digital oil,” Lubin argued the author still “is not bullish enough” about Ethereum’s ultimate economic […]
Ethereum co-founder and ConsenSys CEO Joseph Lubin ignited ETH discourse on August 30 with an unusually expansive thesis about the network’s monetary and institutional trajectory, arguing that Wall Street will migrate its core infrastructure onto Ethereum rails and that ETH “will likely 100x from here,” ultimately “flippen[ing] the Bitcoin/BTC monetary base.” “I am 100% aligned with almost all of what Tom @fundstrat says here,” Lubin wrote, before mapping out a future in which major financial firms “stake, run validators, [and] operate L2s/L3s,” build DeFi exposure and “write smart....
Joseph Lubin believes Eth2’s development will move quicker than many are expecting, predicting the new protocol will “absorb” Ethereum in “the not too distant future” Speaking during the Ethereum in the Enterprise — Asia Pacific 2020 conference on Dec. 3, ConsenSys founder and Ethereum contributor, Joseph Lubin, predicted that Eth2 will devour Ethereum in “the not too distant future.”“People in the know around the ecosystem are very optimistic about how fast things could unfold as the really complicated work has been done in launching Phase 0,” he said.While the Eth2 roll-out was believed....