There's a few blockchain startups amongst at Level39 London showcasing to UBS bank CIO recently, one company building a little ecosystem based around ripple is called tidal payments -
https://dimes.io/ & http://gateway.tools/ are two products they were working on alongside a smart wallet/exchange
not strictly related but Since gatewayd's deprecation (
https://ripple.com/dev-blog/gatewayd-no-longer-available/) latter gateway tools might be useful for Symbiont's ripple -> counterparty bridges (if they are even still a thing anymore?)
Also
http://www.coinsilium.com/ https://bnktothefuture.com/ are opportunities for raising additional capital if required. Factom took in 1 million $ in a couple of days with bnktothefuture. Coinsillium plans to open up on AIM
Coinsilium is a small scale company based in the financial technology hub of London and invests in the blockchain focused companies. The worlds first blockchain IPO is scheduled to take place within the next one month and the company will be listed under the ticker: COIN.
The group invests in companies which provide blockchain-based services such as wallets, payment gateways, exchanges, security solutions, financial services, and applications. The companys portfolio boasts of promising fintech startups such as Hive, SatoshiPay, CoinSimple, btc.sx, factom, The Real Asset Co, and many others. For the complete list of projects that the group has vested interests in, click here.
Fund Raising Expectations
Through its initial public offering, Coinsilium is expecting to raise at least £3 million which will be utilized in future investments and expanding the stake in the already invested 11 companies.
Could be an opportunity for the team to get some presence in European fintech scene.
Those are some downright insane statements of confidence!!! Something is surely brewing...
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Indeed, the plan seems to be resonating significantly with those close to the applications of the technology.
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For sure. Blockchain/Smart contracting is hot right now. Just take a look at some of the big financial institutions working, or considering working on blockchain/smart contract pilots:
CBW Bank
ANZ
Westpac
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
BNY MELLON
LHV Bank
Barclays
UBS
Goldman Sachs
ABN Amro
ING
RoboBank
SWIFT
Santander
Standard chartered
DBS
USAA
BBVA
KPMG
InfoSys Finacle
CitiBank
DTCC
Deutsche Borse
Markit
EuroCCP
CME
http://m.efinancialnews.com/story/2015-07-20/big-players-join-blockchain-gang-cme-deutsche-borse-markit-euroccp^ the last 5, huge groups (DTCC alone handles the clearing of nearly $2 QUADrillion per annum!) just announced their interest in blockchain tech today
A single one of those entities incubating CounterParty Blockchain technology (even for something as simple as provenance) could really let it's true potential shine, whilst reaping enormous benefits for the applicator first to market