The System for Clearing and Settling Equities Is Antiquated. This Is About to Change.

Paxos is upgrading clearing and settlement to meet the speed and efficiency of trading. Starting in the US with Street-side US equities settlement, Paxos has built a platform designed to alleviate market participants’ core concerns with the legacy infrastructure they rely upon today. Our solution, Paxos Settlement Service, is built with the latest technology and modern thinking about how financial infrastructure should operate.

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One Year, 31,000 Tokens and 78 Gold Bars – PAX Gold Keeps Growing and is Now Available on Gemini

A year ago, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) approved the only regulated gold-backed digital asset - PAX Gold. Today, we’re excited to celebrate a year of growth of PAX Gold - along with the announcement that it is now available on Gemini!

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Societe Generale Begins Settling U.S. Securities Trades through Paxos Settlement Service

Paxos Trust Company, a New York-regulated financial institution that digitizes and mobilizes assets, today announced Societe Generale is the third broker-dealer client using Paxos Settlement Service to settle U.S. listed equity trades.

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PAX Gold is Now Available on BlockFi — Earn Interest on Your Gold

We’re excited to announce that PAX Gold is now available on BlockFi, a leading wealth management platform for crypto investors. Starting today, you can deposit PAX Gold in a BlockFi Interest Account (BIA), with an initial annual percentage yield (APY) at 4% on your holdings. Through BlockFi, you can also trade between PAX Gold and other assets like BTC, ETH, LTC and PAX.

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The 5 Attributes of Money, Part I: What Makes Money Money

Ultimately, money is a very specific form of asset ledger that serves as a means of payment. The money ledger is foundational to a capitalist financial system as the unit of account that everything in the economy is denominated against and from which intertemporal decisions are made.

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