Gradually, those locations are being adapted to accommodate increasing
demand by blockchain companies.
Not exact matches
Innovators from top institutions and tech titans are in a race to develop green
blockchain innovations to address
demand by businesses.
Indeed, Ripple's CEO Brad Garlinghouse recently acknowledged the rapid growth in adoption of the company's
blockchain by banks: «People know Ripple is the only
blockchain solution for payments that is proven in the real world, and it's driving
demand from financial institutions of all kinds and sizes because they want to stay ahead of the curve.»
As
demand for our expertise increased, we recruited trusted friends to join our company and partake in the excitement unravelled
by the rapid growth in the
blockchain space.
He noted the launch of Liquid, a new sidechain developed
by industry startup Blockstream as proof that the bitcoin
blockchain is versatile enough to meet the
demands of institutions that want to develop private
blockchain networks, while still gaining access to the security and network effect of the bitcoin
blockchain.
To meet that
demand, derivatives startups like LedgerX are already conducting increasingly complicated contracts using bitcoin, and the DTCC is using a private
blockchain developed
by Axoni to move its own derivatives to a
blockchain.
While 2017 was full of
demand generated
by innovative
blockchain developers with a move fast and break things mentality, 2018 will be marked
by demand from the world of finance with a taste for compliance.
«Existing
blockchain platforms are unable to meet the high performance requirements
demanded by decentralized exchanges.
If all goes to plan, Theta and
blockchain - based entertainment platforms could cripple the Netflixes of the world
by freeing content creators from studios and gatekeepers, creating new categories of channels (sci - fi, live events, esports, fantasy), eliminating third - party advertisers, and making on -
demand subscriptions obsolete.
Given the high
demand for alternative asset classes powered
by crypto, a new
Blockchain - based project has entered the market to disrupt a conventional system once ruled
by terminals such as Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters.
The
demand for
blockchain developers reportedly greatly exceeds the supply as corporations are struggling to find experts in the field who are not already employed
by the hundreds of
blockchain startups that have emerged in recent years.
The developers noted the increased interest towards
blockchain solution and decided to satisfy the
demand by providing their own
blockchain - based services.
The
demand for Ripple has surged in the two countries because of the partnership between Japanese banks led
by SBI Ripple Asia and South Korean financial conglomerates to integrate Ripple's
blockchain - based technologies
by January 2018.
Pascal Hideki Hamonic, company director of Descartes Search, headhunters who specialize in the cryptocurrency and
blockchain industry was quoted
by Reuters as saying «the supply of labor can't keep up with
demand.»