Citigroup and Nasdaq are among a group of firms investing $20 million dollars in Symbiont.io Inc, Bloomberg reports on Jan. 23.
Symbiont's blockchain and smart contract platform, Assembly, will be applied in capital markets.
According to Bloomberg, Symbiont will use the funds to work on private equity, mortgages, data management, and syndicated loans.
"We are entering a much more realistic phase where people look at this technology and think seriously about where it makes sense to apply it and where it doesn't. We are leaving the peak of the hype cycle and entering the trough of disillusionment, especially for people who inappropriately applied this technology hoping it would become a panacea for solving all their problems."
Analysts purportedly found that companies started to withdraw "Blockchain" in favor of "Distributed ledger technology".
The MIT Technology Review recently stated that the technology will become less hyped and more normalized in 2019.
Together with several large corporations' plans to launch major blockchain-based projects this year, 2019 is thus reportedly set to be "The year that blockchain technology finally becomes normal."
While investment from Nasdaq and Citigroup shows that some major institutional players are still interested in the blockchain space, another recent report from Bloomberg claims that Wall Street has postponed its crypto plans.
Major firms are reportedly scrapping plans to enter the crypto space as prices continue to waver.
Anonymous sources familiar with Goldman Sachs' crypto business told Bloomberg that the firm's progress has been too slow to be noticeable.
$20 Million Funding Round in Blockchain Firm Symbiont Includes Citigroup and Nasdaq
Publié le Jan 24, 2019
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