As industry news outlet The Block reported on Aug. 30, Gupta joined Dusk Network, an Amsterdam-based startup trying to help companies tokenize their equity shares.
Dusk Network co-founder Mels Dees claims that the company is also working with a regulated European stock exchange and have partnered with a major cryptocurrency exchange.
Former blockchain firm ConsenSys’ ventures head Kavita Gupta joined security token project Dusk Network.
Fundraising for private companies
Gupta, who worked at McKinsey, HSBC, and the World Bank, believes that Security Token Offerings (STOs) can address various impediments that keep private companies from tapping into public markets. Per the report, STOs provide a way for companies to maintain control while also raising capital by selling fewer shares, compared to a public listing. Gupta explained:
“A lot of companies in Silicon Valley keep on pushing IPOs because the founders want to keep control. Using pre-IPO liquidity they would still be able to raise money without calling it a Series D or Series E. This middle point should be there.”
According to Gupta, STOs allow companies to determine the right price for the IPO. She explained:
“This is the best way for them to test the market on what is the price the market really is willing to offer them, instead of two or three IPO banks telling you what is your value in the market. … It is going to change how companies are deciding if they are doing IPOs. For a lot of companies they might not even go through IPOs.”
As Cointelegraph reported in July, Latin America’s biggest investment bank BTG Pactual plans to shift its security token offerings — a pipeline of over $1 billion in sales — onto the Tezos blockchain.
Australian Coder Warns Users of Lightning Network’s Vulnerabilities
Australian software programmer and Bitcoin’s (BTC) Lightning Network coder Rusty Russell warned users that “security issues have been found in various Lightning projects which could cause loss of funds.”
Urgent update recommended
On Aug. 30, Russell published a tweet urging LN nodes operators to update their software as soon as possible. According to the message, his warning concerns all versions of c-lightning prior to 0.7.1, lnd older than 0.7, and eclair up to version 0.3.
Notably, just earlier this month blockchain development company Blockstream announced the release of the version 0.7.2 of its BTC scalability software c-lightning.
Details to be released
In a PGP-signed message published on Linux Foundation’s domain Russell explicitly warns users of security issues and promises that more details will be released in the future:
“Full details will be released in 4 weeks (2019-09-27), please upgrade well before then.”
Lightning Network is a second-layer off-chain Bitcoin scalability solution meant to enable instant and near-free BTC payments. Blockstream’s chief strategy officer Samson Mow recently said that Bitcoin is bad for payments, but Lightning Network could solve this.
As Cointelegraph reported earlier this month, Andreas Antonopoulos announced his new “Mastering Lightning Network” book, co-authored by René Pickhardt and Lightning Labs CTO Olaoluwa Osuntokun.
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