New York-based blockchain advocacy group the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance (WSBA) recently announced the unveiling of the WSBA Certification Framework (WCF) in partnership with Positrust LLC, a blockchain technology company.
Speaking to Bitcoin Magazine, WSBA Chairman Ron Quaranta said that the WCF will serve as a platform to educate and increase the availability of distributed ledger technology (DLT) or blockchain expertise and talent in financial markets.
“The WCF will serve as an educational platform to expand blockchain knowledge within financial markets, across all segments of financial services and within all disciplines,” Quaranta said. “This includes technology, product and project management, business analysis, strategy and more.”
He further adds that besides serving as a framework for future knowledge, the WCF will evolve and adopt new technologies and use cases that come to the fore in the marketplace.
According to Quaranta, the growing inquiries from WSBA members about the future of DLT or blockchain in the financial markets and how they might have access to the growing pool of knowledge and talent required to stay competitive in the future led to the creation of WCF.
Quaranta said that there is currently a lack of blockchain or distributed ledger technology expertise in the financial markets adding that a platform to train and maintain knowledge in this field will become a necessity as adoption and use case of distributed ledger technology increases.
“As we have often noted throughout the financial markets, one of the industry’s greatest challenges is the lack of a large pool of technical and business expertise regarding blockchain or distributed ledger technology,” Quaranta said.
“As this technology expands into greater use cases in financial markets, the ability to train and maintain knowledge in this evolving field will continue to become ever more important. We are very pleased to partner with Positrust to launch the WCF, and look […]
