A built-from-scratch blockchain aiming to enable private contracts between users has officially entered testing.
Announced Saturday, the news marks the latest step in a journey for startup Engima to launch its own technology – developed at the MIT Media Lab, the project is based on a white paper published in 2015.
Initially aimed at the hedge fund sector, Enigma now brands itself as a protocol for “secret contracts,” which it demonstrated last month at CoinDesk’s Consensus 2018 event.
Still, signs are others are beginning to take an interest in the technology, even at this early stage.
After the testnet launch, Enigma plans to prepare for a mainnet launch within the next three months, according to its roadmap.
As an artificial intelligence (AI) bot team developed by Elon Musk’s non-profit AI research company OpenAI defeated a professional team at Dota 2, one of the most popular online video games internationally, technology experts have started to express optimism about the progress that is being made in the AI and machine learning industry. Win of […]
Payment Solutions International (PSI) has developed proprietary financial technology software-as-a-service funds that include the real-time PSI Affordability and Deduction Management Platform (ADMP), PSI Loan Administration Platform (LAP) and PSI Loan Investment product (PSII).
CBD has been observed to deliver health benefits and is widely used in lifestyle and medicine. With the purchase, sale and possession of CBD products legal in most countries, CBDoken finally solves the problem of: (1) a non-transparent global pricing of CBD; (2) massive fluctuations in terms of quality; (3) and a zero established financial market for CBD products.
Some of our readers who were around in the crypto space at the end of 2017 may remember Monaize, an e-banking platform for freelancers and SMEs. Since then they have developed their in-house blockchain technology for their ICO and a crypto wallet for their ICO investors. These are the first steps of the “Banking meets […]
When it comes to crypto and blockchain technology, the vast majority of people who have not been exposed to our community have a simple question: “How are we supposed to understand this?” This seems to be the biggest barrier for new tech—one can’t avoid having pity for those engineers who, having developed and honed systems […]
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The Central Bank of Brazil [BCB] and other regulators of the Brazilian Financial System [SFN] have decided to use the blockchain based technology platform – Information Integration Platform for Regulators [PIER].
The decentralized interoperability protocol Essentia is set to launch a fund valued at over $11 million to expand their ecosystem and incentivize projects to be built on top of the platform. The fund will drive the development of a thriving program to accelerate real-world adoption of blockchain technology, based around Essentia’s enterprise-oriented solutions, while forging close ties with the community, without whom we could not have reached this stage.
The largest blockchain insurance consortium in the world, Blockchain Insurance Industry Initiative (B3i), is ditching the open source Hyperledger Fabric for the enterprise solution Corda developed by New York-based technology firm R3.
Top-50 fintech company BANKEX has announced the launch of Crypto Custody, the first blockchain-based cryptocurrency depository with no minimum fund limit. Custody offers complete coverage of the three main risks with cryptocurrency storage, namely converge in the event of the human factor, natural damage and virtual threats.
The Japan Bank Consortium will release a groundbreaking smartphone application called “MoneyTap”— powered by Ripple’s blockchain technology — to allow customers of the bank consortium to settle transactions instantly, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The shift has already started; finance is moving onto the blockchain, leveraging the decentralization and disintermediation benefits of the technology’s architecture.
The Bitcoin White Paper was first released on 31 Oct., 2008 by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto. We assess how it's going so far.
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