After completing detailed research in to crypto-addressable opportunities within global finance I built a POC for this in parallel to the exchange POC at Kraken

After completing detailed research in to crypto-addressable opportunities within global finance I built a POC for this in parallel to the exchange POC at Kraken in 2011. It was canned for legal reasons, and a decision made to focus on exchange. Coinbase started the following year, with deeper investor pockets and a generally more aggressive "beg for forgiveness" legal strategy. The rest is history.