Bank Santander will offer customers loans backed by commodity tokens

A Spanish multinational bank is developing the possibility of providing loans secured by tokens of agricultural products. Banco Santander announced the creation of a system for providing loans secured by commodity tokens. The project is being developed jointly with the Argentine startup Agrotoken, which previously launched grain-backed tokens. Tokens allow manufacturers to make full-fledged transactions with goods. The bank has already carried out a test run of the system. Santander claims that this is the…

Princeton University Launches Blockchain Research Project

Princeton University, one of the oldest universities in the US, is launching an initiative to study blockchain in depth and its impact on social institutions, as well as to find new applications of the technology. According to Bloomberg, former students at Princeton University donated about $20 million to the project, including Peter Bridger of Fortress Investment, ConsenSys CEO Joseph Lubin, Pantera Capital CEO Dan Morehead, and Galaxy Digital founder Michael Novogratz. The project aims to…