021 - Oil Companies Going Green & The Kraken Bank - BOOM! It's on the Blockchain

In this episode of Boom! It's on the blockchain we discuss Oil Companies Going Green & The Kraken Bank. Oil companies are now heavily investing in renewable energy, we focus on BP, who have pledged to increase its investment in low-carbon energy 10-fold to $5 billion a year by 2030, taking its renewable-energy capacity to 50 gigawatts, from 2.5 GW in 2019. The Kraken Bank which is the first cryptocurrency firm in the U.S. to become a bank.  The Wyoming Banking Board voted to approve the San Francisco-based crypto exchange’s application for a special purpose depository institution (SPDI) charter. Kraken is now the first SPDI bank in Wyoming.  Visit http://www.energytokens.io​​ to learn more about tokenizing energy Learn More - Financial White Paper The groundbreaking work of Ziyen Energy and the development of ZiyenCoin, an asset backed blockchain energy token, has been the subject of an in-depth analysis by leading Professors and Researchers from Columbia University, University of Florida and University of Michigan. Alastair Caithness was also a co-author in the financial whitepaper;  'Finance Infrastructure Through Blockchain-based Tokenization'  This has been published in Frontiers of Engineering Management Financial Journal, and is available to access through Springer - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42524-020-0140-2