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Hyperledger Announces It Is Officially Integrating Ethereum As Its First Public Blockchain
Hyperledger has officially announced that it will be integrating its very first-open public client into its list of tech offerings. The technical steering committee unanimously voted to include Pantheon, an Ethereum client developed by PegaSys after engaging in a very vigorous debate. дальше »
2019-8-31 19:20
FIS Global And Boeing Join Hedera Hashgraph’s Governing Council
Many big-name companies are moving into partnerships with blockchain-based firms as the new age technology grows in application and popularity by the day. Many industries consider blockchain technology as the basis for their future operations and ways of doing business. дальше »
2019-8-31 21:21
PlatOn and China’s Mercedes Benz to Integrate Blockchain in the Billion Dollar Used Car Marketplace
PlatOn, a blockchain service company, announced the development of a blockchain platform to record and store data for used vehicles in Beijing’s Mercedes-Benz Sales Service Co. Ltd. (BMBS). The platform uses the data to calculate the residual price of the vehicles before sales. дальше »
2019-8-30 17:00
Legend of Mir Developer Starts Agreement With Linka Blockchain Payments Company
The developer of the Legend of Mir series, Wemade Tree, has recently signed a new deal with Linkam a blockchain payments company. According to the document signed by the parties, the blockchain gaming platform created by Wemade Tree will start to use Linka for payments. дальше »
2019-8-30 00:07
R3 And Dubai-Based Wethaq Sign A Deal To Develop Sharia-Compliant Platform
R3 has been expanding its partnerships to firms all across the globe. Now, they have struck a deal with Dubai-based fintech startup, Wethaq, to pioneer the financial architecture fo the next-gen Islamic capital market. дальше »
2019-8-29 18:10
BlockEx Is Acquired By UK Manager as Current CEO Leaves
The crypto firm BlockEx has been recently acquired by a United Kingdom asset manager. After the takeover, the current CEO of the company, Adam Leonard, is leaving. He was instrumental during the acquisition and negotiated the deal for over six months. дальше »
2019-8-29 00:54
Indian’s Government Ran Kerala Blockchain Academy Becomes A Partner Of R3 Corda
Kerala Blockchain Academy (KBA) from the southern state of India has recently announced that they have chosen to be general partners of New York-based enterprise blockchain platform R3. R3 is an enterprise blockchain software firm working with a broad ecosystem across industries to develop on Corda, its open-source blockchain platform, and Corda Enterprise, a commercial […] дальше »
2019-8-28 21:33
JP Morgan Related Project, Kadena, Launches Permissioned Blockchain on Microsoft Azure
Kadena, a permissioned blockchain on Amazon Web Services, reported the launch of a new blockchain version on Microsoft’s Azure Marketplace. The project, labelled Kadena’s Scalable Permission Blockchain Community Edition, is a blockchain as a service platform and will be available for free. дальше »
2019-8-28 20:56
Celsius Network Sees A 20x Increase In Deposits, However, Many Analysts Are Concerned
According to the latest press release, leading crypto lending firm Celsius Network has seen an increase of 2,165% growth in deposits. The network has already surpassed 20,000 BTC through mobile app deposits during the first year of operations. дальше »
2019-8-28 16:18
Cred Crypto Lender Onboards New CFO Who was Previously an Executive with PayPal
The crypto lending platform Cred has recently decided to hire Joe Podulka, who will join the firm to become the new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Podulka was known for his work on the giant of payments PayPal. дальше »
2019-8-28 23:28
South Korea’s Largest Payment Processor To Use KT’s Blockchain To Settle Rewards
The largest payment processor company in South Korea, BC Card, has recently started a new partnership with KT, the second-largest telecom company of the country. With this new partnership, KT is set to use its Hyperledger Fabric technology to create a new rewards settlement system for the other company. According to the press release, the […] дальше »
2019-8-28 21:28
U.S Air Force (USAF) Partners with SIMBA Chain and Constellation Network Inc.
The United States Air Force (USAF) is dwelling into blockchain to secure its supply chain data and to streamline its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) plans. The partnership is between USAF and SIMBA Chain (supply chain project) and Constellation Network Inc. дальше »
2019-8-28 20:44
Crypto Exchange Globitex To Participate In Mastercard’s Lighthouse Development Program (LDP)
Globitex, a cryptocurrency exchange based in Latvia, has achieved an important landmark, it has become the first crypto company to be accepted into Mastercard’s Lighthouse Development Program (LDP). This initiative, which was also backed by NFT Ventures, is focused on offering support to companies from Nordic and Baltic countries and to help them in developing […] дальше »
2019-8-27 23:56
Crown Sterling Sues Black Hat Convention Organizers After Being Called “Snake Oil Crypto”
A firm called Crown Sterling has decided to sue the organizers of the Black Hat conference because it was not protected from its audience. You may be thinking that an angry mob attacked the developers after reading this, but the truth is that their product was called “a piece of snake-oil cyber marketing” and their […] дальше »
2019-8-27 22:40
Australian Securities Exchange Partners With VMware And Digital Asset (DA) for Using Blockchain by 2021
Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Digital Asset and VMware to work together on initiatives based around blockchain-style distributed ledger technology (DLT). дальше »
2019-8-26 19:20
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Enthusiasts Set To Take Burning Man Festival By Storm
Crypto worshippers are looking forward for the upcoming Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert. The festival has turned out to be a vital ground for various crypto related activities. After all, the Burning Man festival and crypto ethos have something in common, they operate on openness and seek to explore new governance models that […] дальше »
2019-8-26 02:04
Telx Technologies Rolls Out World’s Inaugural Cryptocurrency-Facilitating Sim Card Wallet
Cryptocurrency and telecommunications payments company Telx Technologies, has developed the first cryptocurrency SIM card wallet – which will allow Telx customers to send cryptocurrency transactions via SMS to any phone number around the world. дальше »
2019-8-25 21:09
Lolli Launches Sats Stacking Partnership With Petco; Giving 85M Families A Way To Earn Bitcoin (BTC)
Lolli is giving the dog lovers a reason to celebrate this International Dog Day with even more gusto. The bitcoin rewards site and browser extension has partnered with Petco, Petco Animal Supplies to allow users to receive up to 3. дальше »
2019-8-24 16:43
Largest Bank of Africa, Standard Bank, Becomes Newest Member of The Marco Polo Network
Standard Bank, known as the largest banking institution in the African continent, has recently decided to join forces with the Marco Polo Network, a blockchain-based financial company. Now, the bank will start to create financial solutions together with the blockchain company. дальше »
2019-8-24 01:09
Gavin Wood Launches Its Experimental Network Kusama, A Testnet For Polkadot
The developers of Web3, the company behind the Polkadot protocol, have recently finished the testnet for the blockchain protocol. According to Gavin Wood, one of the main developers who are working on the program, the project, which is called Kusama, is already available. дальше »
2019-8-24 23:54
Blockchain Accelerator MouseBelt Launches Education Initiatives In California Universities
We can see a rise in Blockchain courses globally, and now Univerity of California has decided to offer them too. 3 campuses of the university, namely, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, and UC Davis have announced a partnership with MouseBelt Blockchain Accelerator. дальше »
2019-8-23 18:52
Japan’s Recruit Holdings Commits To Investment In Blockchain Startup Blockstack
Blockchain startup Blockstack PBC has recently confirmed that they have received a strategic investment from Japanese human resources giant Recruit Holdings. Recruit Holdings is one of Japan’s biggest Japanese internet companies with large acquisitions of people focused on businesses like Glassdoor ($1. дальше »
2019-8-23 18:13
Crypto Investors Can Now Store Coins Tezos (XTZ) and Stellar (XLM) at Anchorage Custodian Firm
Starting today, customers of Anchorage will be able to store both Stellar and Tezos tokens on the custodian’s wallet. Anchorage is an institutional crypto custodian that was backed by the giant of venture capital Andreessen Horowitz. дальше »
2019-8-22 02:16
Australia’s Largest Bank ‘CommBank’ To Use Blockchain-Based BioTokens To Help Environment
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia, known as the largest banking institution in the country, has been using the blockchain technology to tackle the issues of investing in sustainable development. Today, the bank has announced that it is working on something that will be called “BioTokens”. дальше »
2019-8-22 01:32
South Korea Banking Firm Woori Financial Teams Up With Kakao’s Ground X To Create Blockchain
Two important South Korean companies have joined forces in order to develop a blockchain together. The Woori Financial Group has recently started a partnership with Ground X, a subsidiary of the famous Kakao. дальше »
2019-8-22 21:27
South Korean Crypto Exchange Prixbit Closes Down Citing Financial Difficulties
The exchange announced it was shutting its operations in a website post dated August 9 that was titled ‘Prixbitend’. The startup said it has failed to overcome its financial difficulties and suspended its cryptocurrency trading services. дальше »
2019-8-21 21:09
Deloitte Launches Live Blockchain in a Box Demo Application to Pilot Real World Use Cases
Big-name companies are creeping into the crypto industry as applications for the cutting edge technology continue to be developed. Many top firms, especially in the financial industry, are working on blockchain projects of their own in a bid to stay ahead of the curve as the technology gets closer to mainstream adoption. One of the […] дальше »
2019-8-20 18:26
Singularity Studios Partners with PICC to Initiate AI and Blockchain Solutions
Enterprise software and application creator for the SingularityNET Platform, Singularity Studios has officially signed a partnership agreement with state-owned, People’s Insurance Company of China’s fintech branch reports Crypto Briefing. дальше »
2019-8-19 16:49
CoinGecko Joins Forces with Coinfirm In an Effort to Fight Against Scams and Hacks Among Others
Coin market ranking chart application, CoinGecko joins forces with blockchain-based financial ecosystem and global leader in regtech for digital assets, Coinfirm. As per the claims made, two things will arise from this partnership: bettering the former’s exchange, i. дальше »
2019-8-17 18:54
E-com Giant Alibaba Files For A New Blockchain Domain Name Patent Focusing On Cross-Chain Interactions
Alibaba has increased its interest in blockchain technologies with yet another patent application as published on the United States Patent Publication. Asia’s e-commerce giant have applied a patent titled “Domain Name Management Scheme for Cross-Chain Interactions in Blockchain Systems” that is expected to offer unified blockchain domain systems. дальше »
2019-8-16 19:22
IDC Expects Blockchain Spending To Reach $2.7 Billion This Year, $15.9 Billion By 2023, Led By Banks
It is no secret that the blockchain technology is amazing for banking, right? On its newest piece of research, the International Data Corporation (IDC) agrees with that and proves it with data. According to its research, the world will be spending $2. дальше »
2019-8-16 17:26
Russia’s Moscow to Make Its Own Blockchain System To Achieve More Transparency in City Admin Services
Russia is not very well-known for its transparency, so the city of Moscow is trying to make a move in the opposite direction. The Information Technologies Department of the city has decided to hire a company to create blockchain-based systems for the city. дальше »
2019-8-16 01:26
CoinMine Secures $2.5 Million In Funding to Foster Crypto Mining Product Line
The crypto mining company CoinMine, which is focused on manufacturing crypto hardware and software, has recently announced that it was able to get $2.5 million USD its latest seed investment round. The seed round was led by M13 Ventures, Gumi Crypto, Shervin Pishevar A representative of the company affirmed that the investment round was so […] дальше »
2019-8-15 22:51
R3 Corda’s Marco Polo Blockchain Welcomes a Logistics Company to the Trade Finance Platform
A third party joins R3 Corda’s Marco Polo blockchain to add data and confirm the payment obligations between Voith and KSB SE – LBBW and Commerzbank facilitated the trade. Global trade finance is hampered by the cumbersome cross-border transactional banking arrangements. дальше »
2019-8-15 19:30
R3 Plans Expansion as Company Announces New Office In Dublin by 2020
The blockchain consortium R3 is amid a big expansion. This week, the group revealed that it plans to open up a new office in Dublin, which will be inaugurated in 2020. The announcement comes on the heels of the last one, that the company would double the size of its London office. According to R3, […] дальше »
2019-8-15 00:43
Shinhan to Team-up With Kakao’s GroundX and Hexlant to Enhance Blockchain Security System
Shinhan has gained a much-deserved reputation as one of the oldest and largest banking companies in operation within South Korea, has announced a brand new partnership with two emerging Fintech companies. дальше »
2019-8-15 00:30
New ICO? NULS Partners with Aleph to Raise $1.25 Million via a Staked Coin Output (SCO) Process
Staking is picking up in most projects as a way to secure the blockchain rather than the legacy proof of work mechanism. Well, NULS, one of the lesser known projects, is introducing a new way to get cryptocurrency projects running with the Staked Coin Output (SCO). A PR announcement from NULS confirmed the team has […] дальше »
2019-8-14 17:41
New Zealand’s ABS Bank To Invest In Local TradeWindow Blockchain Platform
The ABS Bank, a banking institution from New Zealand that is owned by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, has recently invested in a local company called TradeWindow. The company uses the blockchain technology and it is focused on creating solutions for supply chains. дальше »
2019-8-14 01:01
PIVX And 200 Other Proof of Stake Blockchains May Be Vulnerable, Lunar Digital Assets Affirms
It seems that PIVX, a popular private transactions crypto, may be vulnerable to attacks together with 200 other chains. According to a recent report made by Lunar Digital Assets, there is a vulnerability of the system that can be currently exploited. дальше »
2019-8-14 00:30
Mike Tyson’s New Startup ‘Fight to Fame’ Will Mix Up Entertainment with The Blockchain
Mike Tyson, the famous American boxer star, has recently decided to create a new startup. The platform is set to be an entertainment platform for fighters that will be called Fight to Fame. This new platform is set to use the blockchain technology to create the conditions that will help aspiring fighters to reach success. […] дальше »
2019-8-13 22:38
Blade Crypto Exchange Offering Perpetual Contracts Trading Gets $4.3 Million, Led By Coinbase Ventures
“In the long term, we want to be the CME (Chicago Mercantile Exchange) of crypto,” says Jeff Byun, CEO of upcoming derivatives exchange, Blade. The exchange will offer cryptocurrency traders perpetual contracts trading with over 150X leverage on selected pairs. дальше »
2019-8-13 19:31
Department Of Commerce (DOC) To Hire A Computer Expert With “Blockchain And Crypto” Knowledge
As per an all new job listing available online, the U. S. Department of Commerce (DOC) is currently seeking to recruit a tech scientist who specializes in various niche domains related to cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies. дальше »
2019-8-13 19:15
The Fastest ICO Blockchain As A Service Project In Asia, Bezant, Partners With Korea Prepaid Card
Bezant, a blockchain based solutions company, is partnering with Korea’s largest prepaid card distributor, Korea Prepaid Card to tap into the projected $3 trillion prepaid card industry. According to an official statement from the Bezant team, the partnership is set to enhance the capabilities of prepaid cards products and services by integrating blockchain based solutions. […] дальше »
2019-8-13 18:36
Gibraltar Based, Colu Local Network, Closes Its Blockchain Operations; Repurchases Its CLN Token
Four years on since the co-founder of Colu, Mark Smargon, announced the possibility of launching a platform for blockchain based business tools, the Colu Local Network is closing its digital asset business. дальше »
2019-8-13 18:06
Major Auditing Firm EY To Help Developing Fine Wine Trading Blockchain Platform for WiV
EY, one of the four largest auditing firms in the world, has recently revealed that it was hired to work on a new fine wind trading platform that uses the blockchain technology. The company in charge of the new trading platform, WiV Technology, is set to let its clients trade premium wine. With the help […] дальше »
2019-8-13 00:45
India’s Second Largest Company, Reliance Industries, to Incorporate Blockchain All Across the Country
During the 42nd Annual General Meeting of Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited, an Indian mobile network operator fully owned by Reliance Industries, Founder, Shri Mukesh D. Ambani has shared how the firm will be investing in three next generation technologies’, among which includes focus depicted in blockchain technology, edge computing and virtual and mixed reality content […] дальше »
2019-8-13 21:36
Middle-Eastern Sovereign Wealth Fund Invests Big in Crypto Exchange Called ‘MidChains’
As per an all-new report released by a UAE media outlet late yesterday afternoon, Mubadala Investment Capital — the world’s thirteenth largest sovereign wealth fund — has just made a huge investment in MidChains (a crypto trading platform that is all set to go live in Abu Dhabi by the end of this year). According […] дальше »
2019-8-12 19:35
New Jersey Will Soon Have a Blockchain Initiative Task Force of its Own
In what is being considered a welcome move by crypto enthusiasts all over the world, the Governor of New Jersey (NJ) — Phil Murphy — has just signed a bill that will allow for the creation of a NJ-centric blockchain task force (BTF). дальше »
2019-8-12 18:41
South Korea’s SK Group Set To Launch A Donation Blockchain With Two Native Cryptocurrencies
Two tokens set to be launched by the third largest Korean conglomerate, SK Group, after local dailies report the development of a business blockchain. The conglomerate will launch the Social Value Coin (SVC) and the Social Value Power (SVP) Local reports from South Korea confirm that SK Group, one of the largest conglomerates is planning […] дальше »
2019-8-10 20:13
Celsius Back and Ready to Redistribute CEL Tokens After a Brief Suspension
After a month and a half-long suspension, Celsius is back to full operations in the US. The global crypto lending startup has reportedly reinstated its native token, ending the long absence. Celsius Network, a platform founded on the promise of “the lowest interest rates on loans,” is intended to share as much as 80% of […] дальше »