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Project Guardian: Citi trials FX solution using Avalanche blockchain

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Citi developed a public blockchain FX solution as part of Project Guardian, a Monetary Authority of Singapore tokenization initiative.

Citi worked with T.Rowe Price and Fidelity International on a permissioned instance of the Avalanche blockchain. Separately, T. Rowe Price (AUM $1.3 trillion) has been working for a while on FX Swaps on Avalanche.

“While blockchains have demonstrated promise for streamlining post-trade processes, our objective is to drive improvement at all stages of the trade life cycle, including pre-trade and execution,” said Shobhit Maini, Co-Head of Digital Assets for Markets at Citi.

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