THE NUMBERS BREAK YOUR BRAIN. Jake Claver on escrow and settlement.
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Claver discusses the liquidity requirements needed to support interbank messaging, foreign exchange clearing, and equity settlement on a single shared distributed ledger. Global financial markets transfer massive transaction volumes on a daily basis. If international clearing systems and equity exchanges utilize a single digital asset for daily backend settlement, transaction feasibility depends on available circulating supply and total ledger liquidity. Claver notes that circulating supply remains constrained because significant portions of tokens are locked in escrow, held on institutional balance sheets, allocated to exchange-traded funds, or pledged as collateral for derivative contracts. Facilitating daily commercial transactions across global financial institutions without liquidity shortages requires sufficient transaction capacity to match aggregate settlement volume.
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