R3 launched Conclave this week, a new platform that makes it easy to build privacy-protecting solutions, through the use of Confidential Computing. But what is Confidential Computing, why should you care and why is Conclave the platform to watch? The data sharing dilemma Imagine you’re a hospital administrator whose mouse is hovering over the…

Inviolable truths about the limits of technology govern every industry… until they don’t. “You can’t do that with client data” will soon be one of them… Are consumer-grade camera manufacturers stupid? No. And yet they have presided over a near total collapse in sales in the last decade, and are…

In part one of this series, I introduced the idea of Confidential Computing: Imagine if the padlock in your browser told you WHAT would happen to your data and not only with WHOM you were sharing it. But imagine such a technology existed. What could you practically do with it?Who…

I was asked on Twitter recently why Corda is called Corda. I replied with a brief tweetstorm but thought it was worth expanding a little in a blog post as Corda’s name and the product’s vision and philosophy are inextricably linked. To understand one is to understand the other.

“I just wired you the funds; did you get them?”… “No… I can’t see them. Which account did you send them to? Which reference did you use? Can you ask your bank to chase?” How can we be almost a fifth of the way through the twenty first century and…

How do you gain the benefits of the cloud without giving up control and power? Enterprise Blockchains like Corda are the key. The Faustian Bargain There is a wicked tradeoff at the heart of the IT industry: the cloud can transform your company’s economics but, by giving so much power and control to…

We shipped Corda 4 yesterday… here are some key new features we think make it a big deal… Kat has all the details here, and the release notes, upgrade notes and changelog provide all the detail. In this post, I highlight three specific new features, all unique to Corda, and…