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Blockstream Talk #16 - Bitcoin's Financial Layer
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:44:46
Publish Date: 2022-10-06 10:19:24
Description: Welcome to Blockstream Talk, today's conversation is with Matthew Haywood, product manager for Blockstream’s asset management platform. The Liquid Network was originally conceived as a faster, cheaper, more confidential way to move bitcoin around. Over the last couple of years though, it's evolved to allow a lot more flexibility including the ability to issue and manage a variety of different assets. That includes transfer restricted assets which can be used to facilitate security token issuances. Blockstream AMP allows you to quickly issue standards-based digital assets for applications such as security tokens and stablecoins. It offers detailed reports on user balances and allows you to track assets throughout ownership transfers. You can enforce granular ownership restrictions either through Blockstream AMP or your own authorization API. We also touched on some really fundamental considerations in the security token space like, what is tokenization? 03:06 Path to Bitcoin 05:56 The Liquid Network 07:22 Other assets and AMP management 09:06 What is the Liquid Federation? 13:56 Governance within the Federation 16:17 L-BTC Peg in growth 18:03 L-BTC as the native token 20:15 L-USDt transaction volume 22:54 Different layer-2 use cases 25:44 Liquid documentation for institutions 26:58 Asset management platform 33:24 Threshold for Tokenisation 36:22 The new Asset Management Tool 42:10 KYC responsibilities on the Liquid Network 43:57 What’s next for the Blockstream Asset Management Platform
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