RULEMATCH
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The interbank trading and settlement venue for cryptocurrencies and digital assets I Home of RULEMATCH #SpotOn podcast🎙️ | Official RULEMATCH Channel
THE INSTITUTIONAL STANDARD - When banks want to offer crypto services, they have standards - very high standards. - Seamless - Stable - Secure - Swiss That is exactly what the trading, clearing/settlement and custody solution of RULEMATCH and @sixgroup offers. Learn more below ⬇️
🇨🇭 One country quietly built the entire foundation of crypto. Here's how. In 2013 there was no crypto infrastructure anywhere in the world with no regulated brokers, no custody, no legal framework, almost nothing. A Danish software engineer named Niklas Nikolajsen moved to Switzerland, got obsessed with Bitcoin, and founded @BitcoinSuisseAG in a small town called Zug He built the first crypto brokerage. The first custody service. The first crypto company to ever work directly with a government entity in the town of Zug itself By 2017 his company had processed over $1.1 billion in ICO raises including Tezos, Zilliqa, and Bancor Today Bitcoin Suisse manages billions in client assets and runs Bitcoin ATMs across Switzerland The man built the entire crypto banking layer before most people had even heard of Ethereum Then in 2014 a 20-year-old kid named @VitalikButerin had a problem He wanted to sell tokens to fund Ethereum but no country in the world could tell him if that was legal. The US couldn't answer and Europe couldn't answer. Lawyers everywhere said it was too risky Switzerland said come here Buterin set up the Ethereum Foundation in a small house in Zug that the team nicknamed "Das Raumschiff" or The Spaceship in English. They raised $18.3 million in 42 days through a public crowdsale It became the first blockchain foundation in history. The legal template that every single major crypto project copied after - Cardano went to Switzerland. - Polkadot went to Switzerland. - Cosmos went to Switzerland. - Solana went to Switzerland. - NEAR went to Switzerland All because one canton of 30,000 people gave Ethereum a legal home when nobody else would Then in 2017 another team in Zug asked a question nobody had thought of before What if a hardware wallet looked like a bank card? @Tangem built a wallet with no screen, no cable, no USB port. You tap it to your phone and sign transactions. The private key generates inside a Samsung EAL6+ military-grade chip during setup and never leaves it. Same security technology used in biometric passports Then they built the Tangem Ring. Same chip, same security, but it's a ring on your finger. A full hardware wallet you wear on your hand Then they launched Tangem Pay. A non-custodial Visa card built directly into the app. You spend USDC through Apple Pay and Google Pay but your funds stay onchain at all times. Only the exact amount needed for each purchase leaves your wallet at the moment you tap. No custodian holding your money with no pooled accounts. 2025 revenue: $61.3 million. That's a 102% increase from the year before. For a hardware wallet company most of crypto Twitter has never even mentioned One country of 9 million people gave Bitcoin its first regulated broker, gave Ethereum its legal home when the rest of the world wouldn't touch it, and built the most innovative hardware wallet ecosystem that exists today Switzerland didn't just adopt crypto but it literally the infrastructure the industry runs on. And this is only part one 👀
