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Marten Nelson

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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 /payments /retail 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 /payments /crypto 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 /payments /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights