Filmed before the Ukrainian War: A look into the ambitious Smartlands project being built on Stellar in Ukraine

Stellar Global Radio with Sam: Exploring the Stellar Blockchain and Beyond

English - April 10, 2022 11:06 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Technology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed

Previous Episode: Live w/Stephen Deng of DFSLab who launched a Blockchain Bootcamp for African startups with Stellar

Next Episode: Filmed 4/14/21: LIVE with the Founders of Task.io

It's surreal to listen to this interview today as the beautiful country that is depicted is now in the midst of a bloody war. Filmed Sept. 2021, CEO Illia Obraztcov and Non-Executive Chairman Martin Birch sat down with me to discuss how their Smartlands Stellar-based token was on course to revolutionize tokenized investing forever.

Smartlands is the next-generation Stellar blockchain-based global investment and digital banking ecosystem. The Company's proprietary technological solutions allow asset owners to turn the ownership right to a share of any asset in any asset class into a tradable digital token attributing it almost unlimited liquidity. The President of Ukraine signed into law a decree that now allows the Ukrainian Central Bank, The National Bank of Ukraine, (NBU) to issue a CBDC or digital hryvnia. The law also enables the NBU to set up regulatory structures for testing payment services and other allied instruments based upon new and emerging technologies.

It is worth noting that the legislation requires the NBU to form a close collaboration with local start-ups in the digital asset space to ensure that the end product of the e-hryvnia takes into account the needs of the private sector. In a further positive for Smartlands, the NBU announced earlier this year that it had chosen the Stellar blockchain network as the platform on which it will build the hryvnia CBDC. So it is instantly compatible with all aspects of the Smartlands platform immediately after it is launched.