Danny An - Co-Founder and CEO at Trust Token - The Bridge Between Blockchains And $256 Trillion Worth Of Real-World Assets
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2018
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
TrustToken is a platform to create asset-backed tokens that you can easily buy and sell around the world. For example, gold to gold tokens or dollar to dollar tokens. The company's first asset token is TrueUSD, a stablecoin that you can redeem 1-for-1 for US dollars. TrustToken was founded in 2017 and consists of a team from Stanford, UC Berkeley, Airbnb, Goldman Sachs, PayPal, and Google, and is backed by a16z crypto, BlockTower Capital, Danhua Capital, Founders Fund Angel, GGV Capital, Jump Capital, Stanford-StartX, and others.
For more information about TrustToken and its TrueUSD product, visit http://www.trusttoken.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.0 | Future Technologies is to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used. |
| 0:17.0 | Or just around the corner, for Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, |
| 0:21.0 | 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to Future Tech Podcast. I'm your host, Juliet Lamar, and joining us today is Danny Ann, he is the co-founder and |
| 0:37.6 | CEO at Trust Token. Welcome, Danny. |
| 0:40.6 | Hey, glad to be here. |
| 0:42.1 | Hi, yes, we're, glad to be here. Hi. |
| 0:43.0 | Yes, we're so excited to have you. |
| 0:45.0 | Why don't you give our listeners a little insight into trust token and what you're doing over |
| 0:50.1 | there. |
| 0:51.1 | Sure thing. |
| 0:52.1 | So trust token is an asset-backed token platform. |
| 0:54.5 | What that means is that we are a set of, we create a set of legal and technical standards |
| 0:58.8 | for taking real-old assets like gold or real estate and turning them into acid tokens like gold token or real estate |
| 1:05.2 | token. |
| 1:06.2 | And so there's a legal connection which allows tokens to become kind of like shares where you |
| 1:10.9 | have control and ownership of the asset of the underlying assets by holding the tokens. |
| 1:16.7 | Very cool. So I guess give us some use cases and maybe some real well of ideas and how it works. |
| 1:24.5 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 1:25.5 | So the first thing that we tokenized, |
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