Blockstream Talk

Bitcoin's Financial Layer with Matthew Haywood - Blockstream Talk #16

Episode Summary

Welcome to Blockstream Talk, today's conversation is with Matthew Haywood, product manager for Blockstream’s asset management platform. The Liquid Network was originally conceived as a faster, cheaper, more confidential way to move bitcoin around. Over the last couple of years though, it's evolved to allow a lot more flexibility including the ability to issue and manage a variety of different assets. That includes transfer restricted assets which can be used to facilitate security token issuances. Blockstream AMP allows you to quickly issue standards-based digital assets for applications such as security tokens and stablecoins. It offers detailed reports on user balances and allows you to track assets throughout ownership transfers. You can enforce granular ownership restrictions either through Blockstream AMP or your own authorization API. If you found this conversation you so don't forget to subscribe and share with your network.

Episode Notes

@Liquid_BTC

@wintercooled

Liquid Network 

03:06 Path to Bitcoin

05:56 The Liquid Network

07:22 Other assets and AMP management

09:06 What is the Liquid Federation?

13:56 Governance within the Federation

16:17 L-BTC Peg in growth

18:03 L-BTC as the native token

20:15 L-USDt transaction volume

22:54 Different layer-2 use cases

25:44 Liquid documentation for institutions

26:58 Asset management platform

33:24 Threshold for Tokenisation

36:22 The new Asset Management Tool

42:10 KYC responsibilities on the Liquid Network

43:57 What’s next for the Blockstream Asset Management Platform