Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Financial institutions face challenges in managing and transacting with regulated digital currencies due to limitations in privacy, scalability, interoperability with legacy systems, and compliance with evolving regulatory frameworks. Existing systems often lack robust privacy protections, offer limited visibility into payment flows, and involve costly KYC/AML processes, hindering the efficient adoption of digital assets.
Solution
Knox Networks provides infrastructure software that enables financial institutions to manage file-based digital assets, facilitating secure and scalable transactions across both traditional finance and digital asset networks. The platform supports multi-asset, multi-party transactions with atomic settlement, addressing key pain points such as slow global transactions, delivery versus payment realization, and difficult integration with legacy systems. Knox Networks' interbank platform authorizes file-based digital assets, maintains issuance limits, performs foreign currency exchange, and conducts AML checks against sanction lists. The platform also incorporates privacy-preserving techniques like Decentralized Identifiers (DiDs) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs) for frictionless user verification and data sharing.
Target Audience
Knox Networks targets financial institutions, including banks and payment processors, seeking to integrate regulated digital currencies into their operations while adhering to privacy, security, and regulatory requirements.
Features
- High throughput, low latency, parallel processing (exceeding 1 million TPS)
- ACID+D compliance, ensuring 24/7 access and near-instantaneous, atomic settlements
- Support for offline payments and double-spend prevention mechanisms
- Programmable and auditable transactions with pre-validation checks
- Interoperability with existing and emerging financial standards (e.g., ISO 20022, SWIFT, NACHA) and payment networks, including legacy and DLT systems
- Tokenization of fixed-value assets, such as digital bank notes and treasuries
- Privacy encryption and frictionless identity verification using verifiable credentials
- Pseudonymous analytics for institutions while preserving the anonymity of cash
- Digital Identity component using Decentralized Identifiers (DiDs) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs)