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The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has created the DTCC Digital Launchpad, a “sandbox” for testing financial tech innovations. This collaborative space, recently tested successfully by the Japan Securities Clearing Corporation, allows players to test ideas, saving participants money and time. Its focus is on solutions for managing collateral. The findings will be released publicly in 2025. The sandbox also provides pre-made digital asset products and guidance for customers. DTCC’s aim is to revolutionise the way the digital asset industry operates and create a secure, efficient digital framework for financial markets.

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The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has set up an experimental playground, called a “sandbox”. The DTCC Digital Launchpad was created as a shared space where market players and tech whizzes can test out their ideas and turn them into reality, following a successful tryout led by the Japan Securities Clearing Corporation (JSCC).

Using this sandbox can save participants a lot of dough. DTCC has brought in a team to the Digital Launchpad to come up with solutions that tackle key difficulties related to managing collateral—the stuff businesses put up as a guarantee when they borrow money. The team’s findings will be publicly shared early in 2025.

Meanwhile, DTCC’s customers can check out the DTCC Digital Assets products available in the sandbox and use them as building blocks to invent their own purposes—all without having to shell out a lot of money. Plus, they can receive guidance from the DTCC team along the way.

Nadine Chakar, the big boss of DTCC Digital Assets, stated that DTCC aims to shake up the digital asset industry’s way of doing things. She said that the ultimate goal of the DTCC Digital Launchpad is to bring everyone in the industry together to create a solid, efficient, and secure digital framework that will revolutionize the financial markets for future generations.

DTCC and JSCC previously worked together to test out the Digital Launchpad’s potential in improving the management of collateral. This test was successful, showing significant improvements in speed and transparency. JSCC demonstrated that tokens, or digital assets, representing cash, stocks, and bonds could be created using DTCC’s infrastructure. Smart contracts—a way to carry out transactions securely without a middleman—were integrated with calls for more collateral and digital assets’ deposit or withdrawal.

DTCC, along with Digital Asset, successfully completed a trial run in the Canton Network earlier in September. They used this to carry out the US Treasury Collateral Network, with 26 market participants making 100 transactions.

In 2023, DTCC was a major player in securities transactions, handling a whopping $3 quadrillion. Its storage subsidiary, the Depository Trust Company, had a hand in managing services valued at $85 trillion for securities issues—papers related to loans—from over 150 countries and territories.

Source: Cointelegraph