Goldman Sachs Embraces Blockchain to Modernize Traditional Finance
According to Bloomberg, Goldman Sachs is exploring how blockchain technology can improve traditional financial markets, such as private equity.
Managing Director Mathew McDermott said the bank is “fully supportive” of blockchain applications following the successful launch of its blockchain tokenization platform GS DAP and plans to hire more experts in the field.
Although Goldman Sachs recently laid off approximately 3,200 employees, its commitment to hiring blockchain experts demonstrates the potential value of the technology in traditional banking.
Goldman’s private blockchain platform, GS DAP, was recently used to sell a green bond, allowing for a one-day settlement compared to the usual five days.
McDermott believes the blockchain platform can tokenize various assets but doubts it will significantly improve initial public offerings or equities.
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He thinks the technology will provide transparency and accurate pricing, increasing liquidity and attracting more investors to secondary markets.
However, it’s unlikely that traditional financial transactions will move to public blockchains soon due to regulatory uncertainty and distrust of cryptocurrencies.
Alexander Stefanov
Reporter at CoinsPress
Alex is Editor-in-Chief of Coinspress and co-founder of Millennial Media Group, with nearly a decade of experience covering financial markets - crypto first, then everything else. It started in 2016 with Bitcoin. Like most people at the time, he didn't fully understand it - so he kept digging. Blockchain, tokenomics, the projects, the cycles. That curiosity never stopped, and eventually pulled him into traditional markets too: equities, commodities, macro. Not because he left crypto behind, but because you can't properly understand one without the other. What drives him is straightforward: he wants to know why something is happening, not just that it's happening. Most market coverage stops at the headline - price up, price down, here's a chart. Alex finds that kind of reporting actively unhelpful. If you walk away from an article without understanding the mechanism behind the move, what did you actually learn? He holds a degree in Tourism from New Bulgarian University - not the most obvious path into financial markets, but markets have a way of pulling in people who are simply too curious to stay out. He has authored over 200 in-depth analyses and more than 10,000 articles across crypto and traditional finance. He still thinks every day in markets teaches him something new. That's probably why he hasn't stopped.
