Morgan Stanley builds Digital Asset Lab to explore blockchain applications
Morgan Stanley created a Digital Asset Lab to test blockchain-based applications, including stablecoins, tokenization and decentralized finance tools. The lab is being kept separate from the bank’s core systems, and Bloomberg coverage also said it sits within the firm’s existing network of innovation labs.
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Morgan Stanley’s Digital Asset Lab matters to employees and customers because it puts stablecoin and DeFi testing inside a dedicated setup rather than directly in the bank’s main systems. People who watch the bank’s product work can now point to a specific internal place where blockchain-based experiments are being run, and Bloomberg-linked coverage placed that lab inside the firm’s wider innovation-lab network.
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