According to recent reports, the U.K Barclays bank, which is likely the biggest international corporate bank, has filed two crypto-related patents with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The decision showcases the existence of a trend among companies, which are actively trying to gain exclusivity over future crypto market technologies.

With this in mind, the first patent is related to ‘a system for transferring cryptocurrency from a payer to a recipient, comprising receiving an identifier of data describing the first entity’. On the other hand, the second patent represents a method and system that ‘records data describing a first entity, the data endorsed by a second entity comprising the second entity validating data describing the first entity, wherein an identifier is associated with the data, the identifier being generated from a public key of the first entity.’