Blockchain Scores Major Win as Aussie Exchange Plans Shift
- ASX will use Digital Asset Holdings technology to track trades
- Cash debt market may also see switch, says bourse CEO Stevens
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Australia’s main stock exchange just announced one of the finance industry’s biggest bets yet on blockchain.
ASX Ltd. will start using blockchain -- the ledger software that makes bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies possible -- to process equity transactions, according to a filing Thursday. Digital Asset Holdings LLC, the startup run by former JPMorgan Chase & Co. banker Blythe Masters, will supply the technology.