ICE not ICE

 Join the IMF they said. See the world, they said.

ICE Considers Avalanche to Launch NYSE Tokenized Trading Engine

Michael Blaugrund, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at ICE, the parent company of NYSE, stated that the company was considering Avalanche.

A better eCash system is possible

2001 - BUMS floated on Cypherpunks . Barter Units of Money in any fungible commodity. Electronic consignments with APster enforcement. 

 KARMA (2003)

In 2003, Sirer and co-authors Vivek Vishnumurthy and Sangeeth Chandrakumar introduced KARMA, a peer-to-peer virtual currency system that predated Bitcoin by five years. It is the first peer-to-peer currency with a distributed mint using proof-of-work consensus, introducing key concepts around decentralized trust management and incentive mechanisms for peer-to-peer resource sharing.^[6] The system was designed to address the "free-rider problem" in peer-to-peer networks by creating a decentralized economic framework in which participants could not counterfeit currency and supply was regulated through anti-inflation mechanisms.^[7]

In February 2005, Sirer was issued a patent for "A Process for Rewriting Executable Content on a Network Server or Desktop Machine in Order to Enforce Site-Specific Properties."^[8]

While at Cornell University, Sirer co-authored HyperDex (2012), a distributed searchable key-value store that uses hyperspace hashing.^[9]