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Unbound Tech unlocks liquidity and security for proven digital asset management

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There are very few scenarios where security is more important than in the world of digital assets. If the key protecting a digital asset is compromised, then it’s game over.

At the same time, trading digital assets will only enter the mainstream when it’s possible to do it quickly and easily. For financial institutions accustomed to making transactions within a fraction of a second, waiting hours or even days for different keyholders to sign off on a digital asset trade is unthinkable.

At , we saw an opportunity. By combining our unique multiparty computation (MPC) software with the built on , we’re bringing unprecedented liquidity and security to digital asset management.

Sizing up the challenge

Unbound is a pioneer in the use of MPC to secure cryptographic keys from every angle, splitting each key into multiple shares that are never united. By distributing trust, we ensure that a breach of any single machine never compromises the integrity of a key.

In the cryptographic world, there’s no such thing as “too secure.” However, we recognized that existing enterprise-class digital asset management solutions are forcing customers to choose between security and agility. What use is the most secure platform in the world if it’s unusable in real life?

We set out to build a new offering that pushes the boundaries of security without limiting liquidity of digital assets.

Creating the Unbound Crypto Asset Security Platform (CASP)

Developed with help from IBM, the Unbound Crypto Asset Security Platform (CASP) solution introduces lucrative benefits for digital assets service providers, including:

• The elimination of any single point of failure across the full digital asset lifecycle. IBM LinuxONE infrastructure offers unique resiliency features such as triple-redundant environmental sensors and Redundant Array of Independent Memory (RAIM) to keep applications running even in the unlikely event of a component failure. IBM LinuxONE , with the mean time between failures (MTBF) measured in decades(!).
• Strict policy enforcement and cryptographic signing support across nearly unlimited asset types (no need for programming multi-sig, smart contracts).
• Insider-resistant, hardened infrastructure for Unbound CASP’s critical software elements. CASP services, key management, vaults, databases, chain connectors, and server-side bots all run within , which are securely booted, protected memory enclaves. These enclaves help assure that administrators and operators do not have even technical access to the applications managing digital assets, such as policy enforcement mechanisms. For example, if an administrator initiates a memory dump, the dump is encrypted and does not include administrative access to the private key.
• Unbound CASP’s code build, signing, and deployment services run within IBM LinuxONE specialized Secure Image Build enclaves. These enclaves help rigidly enforce software review and attestation procedures, to frustrate potential malware, ransomware, and backdoor attackers. These defenses help assure that MPC is properly deployed without human interference. They also help accelerate testing and deployment of legitimate, authorized code updates if there’s ever an application security vulnerability requiring a quick fix. Secure Image Build solves two critical dilemmas: 1) proving the deployed software image is the right one and has not been modified or replaced by a privileged insider, and 2) proving the signed image is what it was supposed to be through the use of the secured source code manifest.
• Exploitation of IBM Crypto Express Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) for the CASP cold backup key and CASP disaster recovery. IBM Crypto Express is one of the only commercially available FIPS 140–2 Level 4 certified HSM, meaning it meets or exceeds the most rigorous standards for tamper protection and response. It enables exceptional business continuity, which is mandatory for enterprise-grade financial institutions.
• Only clients or their trustees control their assets — not Unbound Tech, nor IBM. Clients are issued special IBM smart card HSMs. During a trusted key ceremony, these smart cards collectively generate AES256 bit key parts that are securely transferred to the platform’s HSM and assembled into a master wrapping key inside an isolated HSM domain. Only the client retains control of their master wrapping key. HSM domains are highly isolated and protected by 360-degree envelope tamper detection and response.
• Solutions can be deployed to the , on premises, or in a hybrid deployment, giving institutions and service providers full freedom to decide how and where they’d like to manage their digital asset platforms.

Better together

In partnering with IBM, Unbound achieved a real meeting of minds. IBM demonstrated that they understood our marketplace and our vision.

We participated in a two-day strategy session that helped us home in on what prospective customers are looking for, and how to deliver it to them. The result was a platform that combines our unique software with the IBM Hyper Protect Digital Assets Platform to bring something unmatched to the market, at a surprisingly competitive price point.

By building security into every transaction on the platform, we’re unlocking new liquidity around digital assets. Users don’t have to worry about risk or meeting even the most stringent regulations, as that’s taken care of for them.

Finally, the digital asset market can start reaching its full potential. Alongside IBM, Unbound is offering a platform that means no compromises for customers.

To learn more about how Unbound and IBM are working together to transform digital asset custody, watch the webcast at .

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NFL Punish Baker Mayfield For His New Endorsement Deal?

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The NFL Players’ Association is worried about a new endorsement deal that Baker Mayfield signed this week. They are so worried that and not sign any similar deals since Mayfield’s new deal is with a company that makes CBD products. The reason being that the endorsement deal may be in violation of the current collective bargaining agreement with the league; leading many to wonder if the NFL will punish Baker Mayfield for signing the deal. The question is, should the NFL even bother?

Baker Mayfield announced last week that he was the , a company that makes cannabidiol (CBD) products. Under the collective bargaining agreement between the NFL and its union, players are prohibited from appearing in ads or endorsing companies that sell “alcoholic beverages, tobacco, or cannabinoid products.”

Here’s where this becomes a complex situation for the NFL and the NFLPA: CBD products are made from hemp or marijuana. Most CBD products contain THC, which is what gives its user a sense of being “high,” with marijuana-based CBD items giving a stronger high than those made from hemp, which has a lower THC content.

On Thursday, just two days after Mayfield signed his new deal with Beam public, the union sent out a email to its members that read: “player endorsements of cannabinoid products are not advised by the NFL Players Association,” citing the language in the collective bargaining agreement. Mayfield admitted that he was first concerned about the stigma attached to CBD products, but with Beam, making their CBD products THC-free, the Browns’ signal caller felt comfortable becoming both a user an ambassador for it.

By the end of the week there was no indication that the NFL was investigating Baker Mayfield or that any punishment was forthcoming; that does not mean that the league can’t or won’t render judgement at a later date. Mayfield does join a growing list of players that include DeAndre Hopkins, Ezekiel Elliott, Rob Gronkowski, Patrick Mahomes and Jalen Ramsey who are all brand ambassadors for CBD-based product — so perhaps the National Football League has turned the other way to some extent by allowing players to make money and enjoy the reported (but not fully proven) medical benefits such as pain relief that CBD products offer users. And a look at the standings see Baker Mayfield and the Browns at 4–1 heading into week 6, which might be a good indication that the company that he is endorsing is also helping his play on the field.

It does look like the NFL is willing to walk the line between what its players want, and what it needs to do as a business to keep the federal government off its back and out of its business. This is why the rules about CBD products are in the collective bargaining agreement, but the NFL is able to only use it when a player needs protection from himself; otherwise, it appears that the motto “smoke’em if you got’em” might be in effect for NFL players as sports continues to mirror mainstream society, and its acceptance of CBD products.

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Noble’s eight takeaways from Manchester City vs Arsenal

Personally, when I watch football, I’m looking for structure in a game, whether a team wants to be defensive, or they want to press, keep possession, or be pragmatic.

We must all see some sort of structure in order to get results. Arsenal looks like a team that isn’t sure of who they are or who they would like to be. We have a lot of deadwood on our side and holes in the team were all not going to be fixed, but we should be playing better football. Even if Arteta wants us to be a defensive team, that’s fine but we should be creating chances and have a certain level of being lethal.

Despite giving us the best start to a Premier League campaign in seven-years (before kick-off last night), there are things the manager can be criticized for.

My eight takeaways

1. The back three which I see as a back five is limiting our attacking intent because last night I would see at least five Arsenal players in the opposition box as opposed to City’s three but just one pass would result in a dangerous shot at goal. Talk about failing to utilize your advantage.

2. The back five results in the midfield being stretched if the ball is not circulating to all parts of the pitch. And the primary role of our central midfielders is to try and win it back only to lose it easily because it’s hard to move the ball around.

3. The wide areas are not giving us much joy either whether it’s keeping and moving the ball, chances created, goals scored or quality crosses into the box.

4. We lacked a presence in the box, should a team with a good center forward struggle with this? Lacazette has struggled at times but despite this, he has scored in three consecutive games and has benched in the last two matches. Aubamayeng’s presence is not being felt at the moment and his goal tally so far is a clear indication that he isn’t being found by his teammates.

5. Ceballos is good with the ball and has an eye for a pass something he needs to be allowed to do more often, but he needs better starting positions in the middle of the park. Ceballos puts in a shift as he wants to win the ball back and start things from deep, however, his ability to do so is limited if the midfield is comprised of Xhaka and himself. We have to win the ball back to play it into dangerous areas, that said we won’t win matches this way with a two men central midfield. So I am grateful for Partey and Arteta must give us the 4–3–3 ASAP!

6. The Martinez aberration has divided opinion and I feel Leno’s efforts will not be appreciated much going forward. He will be blamed for things beyond his reach and sometimes over-glorified when things do go well. It’s going to be tough for Bernd Leno in the court of opinion presided by the Arsenal fans.

7. Most of our team played way below their usual levels and very few deserve special mention after the game, however, I will touch on Gabriel, and Thomas.

In Gabriel Magalhães we are blessed with a good player who won’t hide in games and that’s a good quality to have in a center back. I look forward to watching him progress, is safe to say when you hear opposition fans tell you that you will be lucky to hold onto him in years to come, it’s a massive endorsement of his talent.

Thomas Partey also had decent thirteen minutes, we all know he is a good signing. But his introduction gave me hope that he will adapt well to the Premier League and give us a three men midfield and give us much-needed stability. It’s the wide areas I’m concerned about the most, Nicolas Pepe and Willian must be giving the manager sleepless nights as much as they are giving the fans headaches.

8. BUKAYO SAKA IS SPECIAL. Need I say more?

Arsenal’s next four Premier League games

Leicester (Home)

Manchester United (Away)

Aston Villa (Home)

Leeds (Away)

Looking at our next four games the boys need to find their bounce as they can not afford to drop any more points.

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Thank you for claps! We are the best readers!

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Grow Forest Schools in popularity during distance learning

Stomping through puddles, scrambling over fallen logs and digging in the dirt with sticks may not sound like traditional educational activities, but they are core parts of the curriculum in “forest schools” .

Learning amid the leaves is the hallmark of a forest school, an immersive outdoor education model devoted to the exploration of nature. Forest schools, which have their roots in Scandinavian educational tradition, generally focus on preschool age children. Instead of sitting quietly at their desks, these students build forts in the forest, pick berries fresh from the bush and have story time at the shore.

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