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Go Where No Operations Department Has Gone Before – Instant Settlement

Captain/Trader Kirk is on the bridge making multiple trades in multiple asset classes with his Klingon counterparty. Spock is in the middle office, reviewing trades, and determining that they’re entirely logical, Captain. Meanwhile, with both normal and extended settlement, initial and variation margins flow in and out of the bank as if the cash was […]

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If Only Yankee Stadium II Had Been Built With Blockchain

In the Bronx, NY in April of 1998, it was the best of times, and it was the worst of times.  The Yankees had won a World Series two seasons prior and had started their 1998 season with their young shortstop, Derek Jeter, on his way to his first All-Star game. The Yankees would win […]

Measure Twice, Cut Once. Plan Twice, Build Once

In our first blog in this series, Blockchain: The Secret Sauce to Supply Chain Visibility, we covered why visibility is so crucial in the supply chain for all parties and gave examples of firms using distributed ledgers to help improve customer service, reduce inventory costs, provide proactive status updates, and help mitigate risk. Per our […]

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Salesforce Launches NFT Cloud

Salesforce has launched a cloud-based service for the sale and creation of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The first version of NFT Cloud was released in a limited pilot in mid-June at the Salesforce Connections conference in Chicago. Later this year, anticipated to be in October, Salesforce will make the product available to the public. This product […]

How the Evolution of Web3 and NFTs are Influencing the Future of Ecommerce

Lately, experts and enthusiasts have been writing a lot about the evolution of the web and the concepts of centralized vs. decentralized networks. I was starting to feel comfortable with the concept of cryptocurrencies and a new term that everyone’s been talking about recently – non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which has caught my attention. Understanding these […]

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NY Federal Reserve Evaluates Stablecoin Frameworks

Cryptocurrency continues to grow, and Perficient is committed to helping financial services clients continue to understand and navigate this fast-changing part of the economy. Over the last 90 days, we have let clients know about the federal banking regulators planned cryptocurrency road map, explained what steps national banks need to take to begin crypto activities, […]

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Listen To Mark Cuban Break Down NFTs and How the Dallas Mavericks Use Them To Create Fan Value

I was super excited when I first heard that Perficient’s Jim Hertzfeld and Kim Williams-Czopek were interviewing Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Shark Tank host and investor, and entrepreneur, on their What If So What? podcast. Not entirely surprising, but Cuban said more people probably know him as the “Shark Tank guy” […]

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How Are Leading Financial Institutions Navigating the Cryptocurrency Market? 4 Highlights From 2021

Cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Polkadot, and many more, are taking the investment world by storm. According to CoinGecko, the cryptocurrency market is worth more than $2.35 trillion (as of 01/03/22), and financial institutions, if they haven’t already, are wondering whether they should take a piece of the pie. Although this market […]

Trust models in distributed ledgers

Consensus, getting distributed processes to agree on a single value, is a fundamental problem in computer science. Distributed processing is difficult. In fact, there are logical proofs that show pretty conclusively that there won’t be a single perfect algorithm for handling consensus in an asynchronous system made of imperfect nodes. As long as there is […]

Understanding Performance in Blockchain Systems

Blockchain is an example of distributed ledger systems and as such shares the same performance concerns as any other distributed system. In order to measure the performance of a distributed system with an acceptable degree of accuracy, it’s best to simplify as many of the variables under our control as possible. The size of the […]

Blockchain in Digital Transformation: What the Future Holds

It’s been talked and written about countless times, yet digital transformation continues to turn heads. Blockchain is more than a technology trend. Blockchain in digital transformation is a customer experience trend, perhaps, as it’s dynamic and constantly evolving. It’s already being billed to help businesses rack in an estimated $100 trillion in combined value by […]

Making Blockchain Work For Your Business

Making Blockchain Work for Your Business

News of Blockchain’s potential has reverberated throughout almost every industry this past decade, and the hype is justified. In Deloitte’s 2019 Global Blockchain Survey, 53% of senior executives expressed that blockchain has become a critical priority for their organizations this year, up 10 percentage points since 2018. Furthermore, 83% see compelling use cases for the […]

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