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  • InterWork Alliance Issues Guidance on Tokenization Standards for Voluntary Ecological Market

    Free Downloadable IWA White Paper Provides Overview of the Voluntary Ecological Market and the Standards Needed to Tokenize its Supply, Demand, Buying, Trading, Offsetting, and Reporting Processes. Wakefield, Mass. — June 9, 2021 — The InterWork Alliance (IWA), a platform-neutral, non-profit organization dedicated to creating the standards frameworks needed…

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  • Celebrating IWA’s One Year Anniversary

    by IWA Head of Growth Paul Rapino InterWork Alliance celebrates success in their inaugural year and focus for 2021 and 22.  Rallies around critical milestones and member success in tokenization standards; calls for the “Gold Standard in Tokenization.” The InterWork Alliance (IWA) hosted a members-only Town Hall on May 25,…

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  • Build Back Better: Blockchains, Federated Data and Artificial Intelligence

    by John deVadoss The defining challenge of our time will be this question: will data (i.e., access to insights/analytics/machine learning algorithms and most importantly AI models) continue to serve the interests of the few or will it truly benefit the many? Building back better demands that we prioritize this categorical…

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  • Chain Data, Analytics and Monetization – Challenges and Opportunities for the Industry

    by Duncan Johnson-Watt and John deVadoss IWA Data and Analytics Technical Working Group Looks Ahead When the IWA was first announced almost exactly a year ago it was envisaged that there would be three key Technical Working Groups (TWGs) stratifying the work of the IWA into three distinct layers covering…

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  • What are the 2021 Token Taxonomy Act and the IWA Token Taxonomy Framework (TTF)?

    By Paul Rapino Head of Growth, Interwork Alliance The 2021 Token Taxonomy Act is not the same as the Token Taxonomy Framework. However, they are both in high demand because tokenization is here to stay!  What is a token? A token is simply an indication, proof, or expression of something…

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  • Sygnum Bank joins InterWork Alliance to shape global tokenization standards

    Zurich, 28 April 2021 – Sygnum Bank announced today that it has joined the InterWork Alliance (IWA), a platform-neutral, non-profit organization dedicated to creating the standards frameworks needed to increase innovation across token-enabled ecosystems. As the only bank with a regulated, end-to-end tokenization solution, Sygnum will contribute its knowledge and…

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  • (CBDC) Central Bank Digital Currency and The IWA open standards Token Taxonomy Framework

    By Paul Rapino, IWA Head of Growth Much has been written about a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). Almost every financial institution and central bank is looking at the concept of tokenization and how it will impact financial services. Some of the top thinkers on this topic are members of…

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  • Interwork Alliance in 2021

    I can’t say I thought it was a great idea to start a new open standards organization during a pandemic, or that I knew how much effort it would take to convince a diverse set of organizations to join our efforts to undertake something very new.  But then again we…

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  • The Role of the IWA in the Standardization Landscape

    The InterWork Alliance is a non-profit industry organization formed to democratize the digital interchange of value and improve interworking amongst disparate business infrastructures. There are so many challenges to be resolved in this space – transaction speed, efficiency, identity, data protection, regulatory trust, to name a few – and we believe that the best approach is based upon the standardized representation…

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  • The InterWork Alliance Sustainability Initiative to Develop Trusted Solution for Standardizing Token-based Carbon Emission Accounting, Credits, and Offsetting

    Wakefield, Mass. – July 29, 2020 – The InterWork Alliance (IWA) today announced the formation of its Sustainability Business Working Group, which will focus on making the tokenization of sustainability business use cases possible through standards and a trusted certification program. To date, there is no global standard solution for tokenizing…

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