CME Ventures is the corporate venture capital and strategic investment arm of CME Group. It focuses on building and managing a portfolio of external minority equity investments.
BlockFills is a financial technology firm dedicated to providing end-to-end solutions for global crypto currency market participants. The Company has successfully developed and deployed a cutting-edge multi-asset technology platform to solve major liquidity fragmentation issues in the marketplace. The platform offers price discovery, price aggregation, electronic order matching, smart order routing, and trade reconciliation solutions for institutions in the digital spot, derivatives, and lending markets. Furthermore, BlockFills provides software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions to simplify all aspects of the trade lifecycle for institutions in the sector.
Filament is a decentralized IoT software stack that uses the Bitcoin blockchain to enable devices to hold unique identities on a public ledger. It creates a smart device directory, allowing IoT devices to securely communicate, execute smart contracts, and send microtransactions.
Ripple is a real-time gross settlement system, currency exchange, and remittance network created by Ripple Labs Inc., a US-based technology company. Released in 2012, Ripple is based on a distributed open source protocol and supports tokens representing fiat currency, cryptocurrency, commodities, or other units of value. It claims to enable "secure, instant, and nearly free global financial transactions of any size with no chargebacks".