Marten Nelson

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Co-founder and CEO

M10

Member since

10 May 2017

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Stockholm

Bio

Marten Nelson is the co-founder and CEO of M10 Networks, developer of digital money technology for banks and central banks.

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Before starting M10, Marten co-founded Token, the industry leader in API platform solutions for banks and developers and served as its CMO. He is a member of ITUs Global Digital Currency Initiative and was a member of the Federal Reserves Faster Payments Task Force and is a frequent contributor to reports and discussions on CBDC and other digital currency forms.

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How a Regulated Liabilities Network Could Solve the Cashless Dilemma

Central bank digital currencies (CBDC) are often mentioned as a key motivation for the rise of a cashless society. As Sweden’s central bank, Riksbanken, discusses in its paper, The Riksbank’s e-krona project, Report 1: "Today, cash is used to an ever-decreasing extent in Sweden, which has led us within the world of central banking to start con...

16 March 2022 Frictionless Payments

Resolving the unintended friction of Web 3.0

Media is buzzing about Web 3.0 and the metaverse. Companies and investors are scrambling to get in on the ground floor and participate in shaping this new iteration of the web. But I think it’s worth exploring some of the unintended consequences of this mass move toward decentralization and what role, if any, traditional financial institutions sho...

10 February 2022 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

Paving the way to payments modernization with a Shared Hierarchical Ledger System

Last month the Secretary of the U.S. Treasury admitted that she’s still on the fence about digital currency. Unlike the Bitcoin-loving president of El Salvador, Secretary Yellen thinks further study is warranted before diving headfirst into the digital currency deep end. This hesitancy is good. It’s worth asking a few questions: What’s so great ab...

03 February 2022 Cryptocurrency Insights

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European Parliament paper pours cold water on digital euro

This paper was published nearly a month ago. Since then, the committee has published three additional assessments of ECBs two progress reports. As they should, the committee collects opinions from external scholars. It would have been prudent in this article to refer to all digital euro related publications by the ECON committee. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/econ/supporting-analyses/latest-documents

11 May 2023 05:41 Read comment

How a Regulated Liabilities Network Could Solve the Cashless Dilemma

Maybe a couple of times per year. Consider this event https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57707530

18 Mar 2022 12:17 Read comment

Microsoft tests show SCA leads to checkout abandonment

Thanks, Captain Obvious!

11 Aug 2020 02:05 Read comment