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Published inJan 2019
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Peter Lipovyanov
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Peter Lipovyanov

Peter Lipovyanov is an experienced investment banker and venture investor currently focusing on blockchain projects and crypto-assets. A firm believer in the potential of blockchain technology to change the world for the better by facilitating financial inclusion across the globe and improving the efficiency of financial markets and other sectors of the economy, he has been involved in several promising blockchain projects building decentralized applications. His passion for education also led him to create a bestseller online course about the fundamental principles of blockchain technology and its business applications, which is the basis for this book.
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R3 Corda

R3 started as an alliance of nine banks in 2015, with the aim of developing blockchain infrastructure for the financial sector. It has grown to include over 200 financial institutions in 2018. Banks believe that blockchain technology could save them money by making their operations faster, more efficient, and more transparent. They are racing to build products using the technology that will generate new revenue, with dozens of patent applications filed for blockchain-based products by banks around the world.

R3's main project is Corda, a blockchain, or as they call it, a distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform, designed specifically for financial agreements between regulated financial institutions. The main difference between Corda and the public blockchains we are already familiar with, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, is that Corda is based on consensus only...

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Published in: Jan 2019Publisher: ISBN-13: 9781789956023

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Peter Lipovyanov

Peter Lipovyanov is an experienced investment banker and venture investor currently focusing on blockchain projects and crypto-assets. A firm believer in the potential of blockchain technology to change the world for the better by facilitating financial inclusion across the globe and improving the efficiency of financial markets and other sectors of the economy, he has been involved in several promising blockchain projects building decentralized applications. His passion for education also led him to create a bestseller online course about the fundamental principles of blockchain technology and its business applications, which is the basis for this book.
Read more about Peter Lipovyanov