Welcome to Blockstream Talk, today's conversation is with Matthew Haywood, product manager for Blockstream’s asset management platform.

The Liquid Network was originally conceived as a faster, cheaper, more confidential way to move bitcoin around. Over the last couple of years though, it's evolved to allow a lot more flexibility including the ability to issue and manage a variety of different assets. That includes transfer restricted assets which can be used to facilitate security token issuances.

Blockstream AMP allows you to quickly issue standards-based digital assets for applications such as security tokens and stablecoins. It offers detailed reports on user balances and allows you to track assets throughout ownership transfers. You can enforce granular ownership restrictions either through Blockstream AMP or your own authorization API.

We also touched on some really fundamental considerations in the security token space like, what is tokenization?

Learn more about Blockstream AMP here: https://blockstream.com/amp/

01:28 Path to Bitcoin 04:37 The Liquid Network 06:10 Other assets and AMP management 07:50 What is the Liquid Federation? 11:25 Governance within the Federation 13:18 L-BTC Peg in growth 15:51 L-BTC as the native token 16:39 L-USDt transaction volume 18:36 Different layer-2 use cases 21:09 Liquid documentation for institutions 21:51 Asset management platform 26:10 Threshold for Tokenisation 27:00 The new Liquid Asset Management Tool 34:07 KYC responsibilities on the Liquid Network 35:26 What’s next for the Liquid Asset Management Platform