Digital Asset Holdings
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| industry = Distributed Ledger Technology
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| founded = {{Start date|2014|10}} in New York City, United States
| founders = Don R. Wilson, Sunil Hirani, Yuval Rooz, Eric Saraniecki, and Shaul Kfir
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| hq_location_city = New York City
| hq_location_country = United States
| area_served = Global
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Digital Asset (or Digital Asset Holdings, LLC) is a financial technology company founded in 2014 by Sunil Hirani, Don R. Wilson, Yuval Rooz, Shaul Kfir and Eric Saraniecki. It builds products based on distributed ledger technology (DLT) for banks and other financial institutions.
History
Blythe Masters was CEO from 2015 to 2018, and was succeeded by Yuval Rooz.
On June 25, 2015 the Moneybeat column from The Wall Street Journal wrote that the "acquisition of HyperLedger might raise eyebrows in the bitcoin community, where there is aversion to the idea that Wall Street might co-opt blockchain technology and strip it of its decentralized nature."
In November 2021, Goldman Sachs announced that it will use Digital Asset's Daml technology for its tokenized asset platform.
In May 2022, SBI Holdings made a strategic investment in Digital Asset to build a programmable Japanese yen.
Daml
Daml is an open-source smart contract language inspired by Haskell. It aids in modeling agreements and runs on blockchain platforms.
References
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|last=Jessel|first=Ben
|title=Digital Asset Steps Up A Gear In Enterprise Blockchain
|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/benjessel/2020/02/19/digital-asset-steps-up-a-gear-in-enterprise-blockchain/
|date=2020-02-19
|access-date=2022-07-01
|website=Forbes
|language=en}}
|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-digital-asset-funding/blockchain-startup-digital-asset-raises-40-million-idUSKBN1CL22G
|title=Blockchain startup Digital Asset raises $40 million
|last=Irrera|first=Anna
|date=2017-10-16
|website=Reuters
|access-date=2018-04-30
|language=en-US}}
|url=https://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/06/25/blythe-masters-quick-off-the-block-with-startup-buys/
|title=Blythe Masters Quick Off the Block With Startup Buys
|last=Krouse|first=Sarah
|website=The Wall Street Journal
|date=2015-06-25}}
|url=https://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/09/09/pivit-raises-5-million-with-help-of-blythe-masters-led-start-up/
|title=Pivit Raises $5 Million With Help of Blythe Masters-Led Start-Up
|last=Krouse|first=Sarah
|date=2015-09-09
|website=The Wall Street Journal}}
|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/newyork/news/2015/09/09/blythe-masters-enters-wall-street-s-bitcoin-tech.html
|title=Blythe Masters enters Wall Street's bitcoin tech race with her first issuance of a crypto-security
|last=del Castillo|first=Michael
|date=2015-09-09
|website = New York Business Journal}}
|url=https://www.thetradenews.com/goldman-sachs-to-use-digital-assets-technology-to-build-open-platform-for-tokenised-assets
|title=Goldman Sachs to use Digital Asset's technology to build open platform for tokenised assets
|last=Watkins|first=Jonathan
|access-date=2022-07-01
|date=2021-11-03
|website= The Trade}}
|title=Digital Asset helps financial giant SBI develop 'smart yen'
|last=Liao|first=Rita
|url=https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/31/japan-sbi-digital-asset-daml/
|access-date=2022-07-01
|date=2021-05-31
|website=TechCrunch
|language=en-US}}
|title=Blockchain 50
|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldelcastillo/2020/02/19/blockchain-50/#2e697c87553d
|last1=del Castillo|first1=Michael|last2=Schifrin|first2=Matt
|access-date=2020-02-20
|website=Forbes}}
|last=Ember |first=Sydney
|date=2015-03-11
|title=Former JPMorgan Executive Blythe Masters Joins Bitcoin-Related Start-Up
|language=en-US
|work=The New York Times
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/12/business/dealbook/former-jpmorgan-executive-blythe-masters-joins-bitcoin-related-start-up.html
|access-date=2022-07-01}}
|title=Digital Asset Names New CEO
|url=https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1dlxjfsvjn0sj/Digital-Asset-Names-New-CEO
|last=McElhaney|first=Alicia
|date=2019-03-19
|access-date=2022-07-01
|website=Institutional Investor
|language=en-gb}}
|date=2018-12-19
|title=Blythe Masters steps down as CEO of blockchain startup Digital Asset
|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/19/blythe-masters-steps-down-as-ceo-of-blockchain-startup-digital-asset.html
|access-date=2022-07-01
|website=CNBC
|language=en}}
}}
External links
- {{Official website|http://digitalasset.com/}}
- [https://daml.com/ Official Daml product website]
- [https://discuss.daml.com/ Official Daml Forum]