E08 - Paul Stonham on Enterprise DLT & Tokenising Assets

Paul Stonham is the General manager of the DLT division at the Australian Stock Exchange. For the last few years the ASX has been developing an enterprise DLT that uses VMware's blockchain and runs the DAML smart contract language. In this conversation we talk traditional finance getting into distributed leger tech and some of the use cases. Paul is a technologist always looking to improve efficiency; and we get into tokenisation of assets and the utility of NFTs. 

Timestamps:
01:42 background in traditional markets
05:00 DLT as a service
09:42 is it a blockchain?
11:00 simplifying the path to adoption
13:46 enterprise client's use cases
23:33 competitors - hyperledger etc.
25:37 on trust in tokenisation of digital assets
28:46 real estate & tokenised land
31:27 web3, NFTs, & a metaverse
37:12 DLT fit at ASX
39:14 blockchain New Zealand
41:53 rapidfire
44:37 fin

Some notes from the show:

• CHESS replacement with DLT 
• VMware blockchain 
• daml 
• BFT distributed systems 
• PBFT based on The Part-time Parliament paper 
• Barclays, JPMorgan use haskell 
• KPMG & NSW Building Trustworthy Indicator
• Hyperleger 
• Corda 
• Speed & Trust 
  
• Culture’s new home on the blockchain 
• Australian Open NFTs 

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Recorded at blockheight 754135. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.