Interbank FX Blockchain

Let's meet & discuss the Ethereum-based Blockchain developed by Nicolas & Daniel.

This Proof-of-Concept fully revisits how transactions are being processed among commercial banks on the FX markets.

This open discussion will focus on the technical implementation of this PoC using the Ethereum framework. Among others, these topics will be discussed :

1. Scalability & security in a permisionned Blockchain

2. Consensus mechanism & transparency in trading

3. Role of the Oracle

4. Setting up a robust smart contract with Solidity

5. Currently 1 ETH = 1 USD in our set-up. Which solution exists to make the Ether a crypto-currency fully independent from the USD.

This tech initiative has been hosted & supported by the ITEC department of Société Générale in Bucharest.

Nicolas Boitout: PhD, former systematic FX trader, acting as a Business Analyst / Business developer for this Blockchain project.

Daniel Sotropa: Senior .NET developer - is now mastering the intricacies of the Ethereum framework.

Ciprian Ivan, BA covering post-trading apps within SocGen will describe the existing set-up.