035: NASDAQ is Quietly Dominating Blockchain – with Johan Toll
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Johan Toll is an Associate VP and leads Nasdaq’s blockchain efforts. In this episode, we discuss:  –How Nasdaq is not just a stock market company, but a full-fledged FinTech firm –We go over how Nasdaq started experimenting with blockchain back in 2012, and became the first organization in the world to issue actual company shares on a blockchain –We also explore Nasdaq CEO, Adena Friedman’s statement, that Nasdaq is open to becoming a cryptocurrency exchange
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