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复旦金融评论|区块链如何颠覆金融行业？( 五 )


Charles Chang: How would you characterize the state of adoption for Blockchain?
Greg Schvey: We’re definitely still early in what is most likely a 10-20 year trend.
Charles Chang: How are banks viewing Blockchain adoption?
Greg Schvey: Like any advancement, there is a spectrum of views. In our experience, most have come to view enterprise Blockchain infrastructure as an important alternative to traditional database and network systems, though where each bank is (or each group within a bank) differs. Banks have warmed to conversations about cryptocurrencies, but are generally much more hesitant to get involved due to various regulatory concerns. I think incentives to participate in infrastructure provision or network use will draw on more traditional incentive structures rather than on tokens or cryptocurrency.
Charles Chang: How are investors viewing it? Has Blockchain been de-mystified and what are the key reasons?
Greg Schvey: Other than venture investing, it’s still difficult to get exposure to the enterprise Blockchain market since most of the companies are private. Interest in cryptocurrencies varies widely and remains largely a retail market. More recently, we’ve seen an increase in institutional investor interest in cryptocurrencies now that trusted custodians, exchanges, trading counterparties, and other infrastructure providers have begun to emerge.
Charles Chang: What has helped adoption? What are key reasons for hesitation?
Greg Schvey: The biggest shift in the last year or so is that adoption of the technology has been de-risked by virtue of the increasing proof points and market knowledge about how these systems work. The repeated validation and market familiarity makes conversations with decision makers much easier.
Our own work in credit derivatives gave the market insight into how our technology works, and our work in equity swaps showed the world that successful deployment and tangible benefits are possible. It helps to have real world applications to help explain new systems or processes, as it makes the technology much more relatable for end users.
On the Axoni from then to now
Charles Chang: How did you start Axoni? What was its original mission and has that evolved as well over the years?
Greg Schvey: The company was originally called TradeBlock and provided tools for institutional traders in the digital currency markets. Essentially, TradeBlock provides a single interface that unifies the data and interactions for firms that may be executing trades at various different exchanges, have multiple wallets, have potentially thousands of over-the-counter counterparties, and many people on their team across many roles.
We spun that company out in 2016 and it has since become the world’s leading provider of post-trade infrastructure for digital currencies. As we built out those tools, we realized the underlying protocols could open a world of efficiencies, and eventually we began to focus more heavily on that area of the business, which would eventually come to be known as Axoni.


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