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16K+ The Toronto Region is home to:

16,000+ tech companies in the largest stock exchange in North Toronto Region, from startups to rd 3 America: Toronto Stock Exchange global technology leaders nd Three of the world’s largest 3 pension funds Many of these companies deliver 2 services to the North American and largest fi nancial centre ’s fi ve largest banks global financial services industry in North America 5

WHAT’S HAPPENING HERE?

As a leading technology and fi nancial services centre in North America, the Toronto Region has the market and the talent to develop, grow and adopt blockchain technology.

encryption IBM Blockchain Global Data Centre in Toronto technology uses IBM Z’s encryption technology to secure and run blockchain services.

speed up Bank of Canada is partnering with TMX securities Group and Payments Canada to explore how blockchain technology could be used to speed up the clearing and settling of securities.

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Ethereum

Developed by Torontonian Vitalik Buterin, and its token payment system known as Ether, are now worth US $7 billion.

Ethereum is likely the most important startup in Canadian history because it has become the investment bank of the blockchain world.

“Ethereum came out of right here in Downtown Toronto, so to be the second-leading technology to is really something great that we did here in Canada,” says Anthony Di Lorio, co-founder of Ethereum.

BLOCKCHAIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE

BLOCKCHAIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Emerging Blockchain Centre Toronto is also home to the authors of The Blockchain Revolution, father-son-duo Don and Alex Tapscott. Together, they founded the Blockchain Research Institute in Toronto to study the application of the technology across di erent industries. Nuco: developing production-ready The institute has support from private sector players, including IBM, Accenture, infrastructure to power the future of and Thomson Reuters. enterprise software. Nuco is shaping the standards for enterprise-ready blockchain networks to streamline your journey from “The tech corridor between Toronto and Kitchener-Waterloo concept to production. is emerging as Canada’s fi rst “technology supercluster.” This region is already a world leader in quantum physics Decentral: is an innovation hub for and artifi cial intelligence. Blockchain is ideally placed to disruptive and decentralized technologies. be the third leg of the Tech North stool.” Decentral is home to Canada’s fi rst two- way Bitcoin ATM and host to community- , Founder, Blockchain Research Institute driven events in the domains of fi ntech, blockchain, and decentralized technologies.

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