Modex To Hold Blockchain Courses At Executive Blockchain Laboratory


The blockchain courses will be held over the course of one year within the Executive Blockchain Laboratory project organized by ICI Bucharest (National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics). These courses will focus on the industries


March 12, 2020 Read more

Libra Plus? A New Global Digital Currency Strategy for Facebook


India’s Supreme Court overturns a crypto banking ban while Facebook prepares fiat-pegged digital currencies alongside Libra. Facebook’s Calibra wallet would be abandoning the backed-by-a-basket-of-currencies Libra for a set of fiat-backed digital currencies for different regions.


March 4, 2020 Read more

CoinDesk’s Statement on Coronavirus and Blockchain Week NYC


As we all look ahead to Consensus 2020 and Blockchain Week NYC, we wanted to share the following updates with you regarding the recent spread of the COVID-19 virus. As of today, CoinDesk is moving forward as planned with Consensus 2020


March 4, 2020 Read more

Hyperledger Conference Shows Where Blockchain Can Fight Global Warming


This year’s Hyperledger Global Forum, the annual gathering for big companies seeking the benefits of distributed ledger technology (DLT), opened in Phoenix, Ariz., with a film of a woman walking through a bamboo forest gathering up crimson thread.


March 4, 2020 Read more

Samsung to Target EU Payments Sector With Blockchain-Based Solution for Banks


The Korea Herald reported Wednesday that Samsung SDS had signed a memorandum of understanding with Israeli fintech solutions provider Credorax to develop the solution, aimed to create efficiencies by automatically logging payments data on bank records


March 4, 2020 Read more

R3 paints optimistic look on enterprise blockchain adoption as companies become ‘smarter’


A new report from R3 paints an optimistic picture for enterprise blockchain initiatives, with companies learning more around how the technology works and delivery increasing. The report, titled ‘Blockchain: 2020 Vision’, argues that delivery issues


March 3, 2020 Read more

KLM To Use Blockchain to Streamline Financial Processes Thanks to Amsterdam-based Unchain and R3


After months of intense cooperation and development, Dutch software services provider unchain.io has successfully delivered a strategic finance application for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines utilising R3 Corda


February 25, 2020 Read more

Scottish Blockchain Company Hypervine Signs with European Space Agency Data To Improve Efficiency And Transparency For The World’s Mining Industry


The blockchain-enabled startup announces its latest contract, working with the European Space Agency to develop services for the global mining community Scottish company


February 22, 2020 Read more

Forbes’ Blockchain 50 reveals enterprises ‘embracing’ multiple providers


Forbes has published its latest Blockchain 50 list; a half-century of the largest companies with significant blockchain technology initiatives, in a year the publisher has described as one where enterprises have ‘embraced’ the technology.


February 20, 2020 Read more

This Social Network Wants to Pay You (in Crypto) to Do Good


Last June, at a swanky, strobe-lit event in Washington, DC, Brendan Blumer, the 33-year-old CEO of a blockchain company called Block.one, unveiled a new product with Steve Jobs-like theatrics: a social network called Voice. A year earlier, Blumer’s company had raised $4 billion selling a crypto token


February 14, 2020 Read more

Blockchain Project Cashaa Protecting Crypto Companies to Survive Fifth Money Laundering Directive and New FCA Rules in 2020


Early Blockchain and Crypto project Cashaa, has launched a new “Crypto Business/Broker” account to ensure crypto businesses/brokers are compliant with the FCA’s new rules


February 8, 2020 Read more

Blockchain-Based Social Media App Vid with VI Tokens – To Launch April 1, 2020 – After VC $10 million USD Investment in 2019


Video-centric social media app Vid announced its upcoming launch on iOS and Android. Established in January 2017, Vida allows users to control their data


February 3, 2020 Read more

Opinion: China is Pushing Toward Global Blockchain Dominance


In a speech late last month, Chinese leader Xi Jinping declared blockchain “an important breakthrough,” and promised that China would “seize the opportunity.” He detailed the ways the Chinese government would support blockchain research, development


December 11, 2019 Read more

Your DNA Belongs on the Blockchain


You may not realize it, but when you send a spit-filled tube off to a lab that’s going to analyze your DNA, you’re linking the most unique identifier possible (your gene sequence) to other sensitive personal information, like your name, home address


September 20, 2019 Read more

US Air Force looking to blockchain for defence data security, says Constellation


The San Francisco-based startup announced it had signed a working contract with the Air Force as part of its USAF SMIR (Small Business Innovation Research) Phase I program.


August 29, 2019 Read more

Blockchain CRM solution provider Cere Network secures $3.5m in seed funding


Major investors including Binance Labs, the venture arm of cryptocurrency exchange Binance, participated in the fundraising event. Other investors are Neo Global Capital, Fenbushi Capital, Arrington XRP


August 22, 2019 Read more

Deloitte launches ‘blockchain in a box’ offering


Dubbed as “blockchain in a box”, or BIAB, the platform has the ability of hosting blockchain-based solutions across four small-form-factor compute nodes and three video displays, in addition to networking components that allow integration


August 20, 2019 Read more

IBM launches Trust Your Supplier blockchain tool with Cisco, GSK, Vodafone and more on board


A new blockchain network, called Trust Your Supplier, announced by IBM and Chainyard aims to enhance the entire supply chain management process, from qualification to validation and onboarding.


August 8, 2019 Read more

IBM, bitcoin atms, physical commodities claim top spots for july 2019 blockchain stories


While the summer heat continues to scorch the Northern Hemisphere, Blockchain Tech News readers cooled off with stories on how the blockchain will transform the worlds of food safety and physical commodities.


August 5, 2019 Read more

IOTA INTRODUCES COORDICIDE TO REMOVE THE BARRIERS FOR REAL-WORLD BLOCKCHAIN ADOPTION


The IOTA Foundation has announced the launch of Coordicide, a planned protocol upgrade that provides a new, decentralised mechanism for securing the IOTA network. This upgrade makes IOTA solve three major.


May 30, 2019 Read more