Overstock’s Patrick Byrne Says tZERO Will Launch Next Week

CoinDesk

Published Jan 18, 2019 02:30PM ET

Overstock.com’s long-awaited tZERO security token trading platform will go live by the end of next week, CEO Patrick Byrne said Friday.

Byrne told CoinDesk the company is "ready to hit the button and go live today," but was waiting a few more days to process user signups.

"But by the end of the next week we will be turning the trading system live," Byrne told CoinDesk, adding:

"It's a big moment for us — four years in the making."
The announcement means tZERO will meet the timetable given last month by Jonathan Johnson, president of Medici Ventures, Overstock’s venture fund and tZERO’s direct parent company. Speaking to CoinDesk in December, he said the company would go live in January.

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