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View More NewsFrench cryptography startup Zama is integrating its protocol with Apex-backed T-REX Ledger to add a confidentiality layer for ERC-3643-based tokenized assets, a standard that lets issuers embed identity checks and transfer restrictions into tokenized securities.Zama, which raised $73 million in Series A funding in 2024 to commercialize fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), said the integration is aimed at making confidentiality a built-in part of tokenized asset infrastructure rather than an add-on layered over existing systems.The companies said the integration would allow regulated institutions to use public blockchain infrastructure without exposing sensitive positions and transaction data, a sticking point that has slowed…
In brief Hostplus CIO Sam Sicilia says the retirement fund is eyeing a potential launch as early as next financial year. The fund is looking beyond Bitcoin at a wider range of digital assets, including tokenized exposure to areas like music rights. It comes as AMP Super, the first Australian fund to back crypto, exited most of its Bitcoin futures position ahead of this year’s market decline. Crypto is inching closer to Australia’s retirement system, with one of the country’s largest super funds now actively exploring how to offer it to members.Australian industry superannuation fund Hostplus is exploring whether to…
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A review of The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives by Naoíse Mac Sweeney, 448 pages, Dutton (May 2023).At the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in San Diego, California, independent scholar Mary Frances Williams stood up at the end of a panel on “the future of classics,” and suggested that classicists should view their field as the study of the foundations of Western civilisation. Classics “matters,” she went on, “because it’s the West.” Sarah Bond, a professor at the University of Iowa, cut in, declaring that ‘‘Western civilisation is a construct—a complete construction.”Since then, how…
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