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About R3

R3 provides solutions across Corda, digital assets, digital currencies, and interoperability, enabling transactions in a permissioned environment. R3 supports central banks, corporates, and financial market infrastructures.

Products

  • Corda: An open, permissioned distributed ledger technology platform.
  • Corda protocol: A protocol launched on behalf of R3 Foundation to bring curated yield to Solana.

Used for

  • Exchanging interbank transfer data between banks
  • Settling digital bonds using wholesale CBDC
  • Tokenizing physical gold
  • Executing cross-border transactions using digital currency
  • Executing intraday FX swaps on a regulated venue

Who it is for

  • Central banks are supported by R3's solutions.
  • Corporates are supported by R3's solutions.
  • Financial market infrastructures (FMIs) are supported by R3's solutions.

From R3's own website, read 2026-10-24. How we build listings.

How to evaluate Blockchain & Web3

This is how the CIOPages Research Team evaluates this category. It is not an assessment of R3. It comes from our Enterprise Blockchain & Web3 buyer guide.

20%
Use-Case Fit & Decentralization Justification
Whether the workflow is genuinely multi-party with no acceptable trusted operator; mapping of which records truly need to be shared on-ledger versus kept off-chain; honest comparison against a governed shared database; and a clear value beyond reconciliation savings
20%
Privacy & Confidentiality Model
Who can see a transaction by default (broadcast-to-all vs. need-to-know vs. point-to-point); private data collections, channels, or sub-transaction privacy; zero-knowledge or selective-disclosure support; data residency; and whether counterparties and amounts can stay confidential while remaining provable
15%
Consensus, Finality & Performance
Consensus mechanism (BFT/Raft/Nakamoto/notary) and whether finality is deterministic or probabilistic; latency to settlement; throughput under realistic load and contract complexity; fee predictability; and behavior under participant or validator failure
15%
Tokenization & Digital-Asset Support
Native or contract-based token standards; asset lifecycle (issuance, transfer, redemption, corporate actions); atomic delivery-versus-payment and cash-leg options (stablecoin, tokenized deposit, CBDC); custody and key-management integration; and regulated-asset controls such as allow-lists and transfer restrictions
15%
Network, Consortium & Ecosystem Durability
Who governs the protocol and the network; production counterparties already transacting; the durability of the consortium or validator set; smart-contract language and developer-talent depth (Solidity, Daml, Go, Kotlin); interoperability and exit options; and roadmap and funding health of the steward
15%
Regulatory, Security & Operations
Identity, permissioning, and KYC/AML controls on participants; smart-contract audit and upgrade governance; key management and HSM support; node operations, monitoring, and disaster recovery; legal enforceability of on-chain records; and jurisdictional and sanctions compliance

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CategoryIndustry Solutions
SubcategoryBlockchain & Web3

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