U.S. retail giant Walmart has applied for another patent, which describes the management of smart appliances using blockchain technology, according to an application published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office August 2.
The application outlines systems and methods for managing a smart appliances such as a desktop or server computer, a kiosk, a tabletop device, or more portable computing devices, such as a wearable or gaming devices, laptop computers, or portable media players.
In order to manage more smart appliances, the blockchain server network considers support of an Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem.
In recent months, the retail corporation has applied for a number of blockchain-powered systems, such as “secure” delivery management system.
Walmart has actively pursued various methods of blockchain applications for their food supply chain, medical sector, customer marketplace, and energy consumption management system.
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As with brick-and-mortar industries that are slowly fading away to the globalism of the online world, so too will the traditional prediction market industry have to innovate to keep up with the sheer efficiency, reliability and security that the decentralized prediction markets promise to bring.
Following a successful 2016 trial of blockchain technology in an interbank open account transaction, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has partnered with five international and Australian companies to ship 17 tonnes of almonds from Melbourne, Australia, to Hamburg, Germany, using a new distributed ledger platform built on the Ethereum blockchain.
Last November, a user accidentally froze around 514,000 ETH (worth approx. $155 million) in Parity, a popular Ethereum wallet. The culprit was a bug in the wallet’s software, which the user in question accidentally triggered.
ETF’s are back in the news this week with the Winklevoss twins of Gemini getting rejected again, while investment firm Direxion was delayed till September on a final decision.
Singapore-based Qtum has launched its decentralized application (DApp) development platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS). With this launch, AWS users and developers will be able to develop and launch smart contracts using an Amazon Machine Image (AMI), made up of Qtum Core, Solidity and Qmix web IDE.
Enterprise blockchain, smart contract, and Dapp platform EOS has upgraded its EOSIO open-source blockchain software to version EOSIO 1. 1. 0 to achieve better scalability and performance. The new release, announced July 20, 2018, also focuses on a better usability experience for developers looking to build on the EOS platform “laying a foundation for more scalable application…
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Telecoms Provider Nippon NTT Unveils Blockchain Innovation for Smart Contract Storage Japan's telecom giant Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) is set to unravel a new blockchain tech for contractual agreements and their storage.
On July 18, FCoin announced new listing of its GPM. INK (CREATIVE Minds Deserve INK) and SAC (Smart Application Chain) were officially listed and opened the deposit and withdraw functions.
What is FCoin?
FCoin is the world’s first autonomous digital asset trading platform with transparency, and will distribute 80% of the revenue to FT holders on schedule.
Real Estate Doc facilitates secure, immutable and legally binding transactions between parties using blockchain and smart contracts in a seamless environment, to achieve data-driven, cost-efficient and seamlessly fast transactions.
Bitmain, known for its Application Specific Integrated Circuit [ASIC] miners, has recently proposed developing and implementing a protocol for smart contracts on the Bitcoin Cash [BCH] blockchain. The proposals reportedly emerged from Chinese WeChat groups comprising of developers from the company.
Natmin Pure Escrow is a decentralized application that provides pure Escrow Services built on Blockchain Technology. Natmin is a self-regulating system that provides secure transactions between the buyer and seller with extremely low fees.
Dispatch is the first blockchain protocol to leverage on-chain smart contracts to manage distributed storage of application data off-chain. The smart contracts “program” how data can be accessed, governed and linked, like a traditional SaaS-based centralized architecture.
W12 offers a completely new approach to thedevelopment of blockchain technology,smart contracts and the crypto economy, the adoptionof which can massively affectexisting traditional infrastructure in the very near future.
After months of conjecture, Taiwanese electronic devices business Huawei Technologies Ltd. (HTC) has actually verified it will certainly be launching a blockchain-enabled mobile phone this year that will certainly permit individuals to firmly save cryptocurrency offline and also function as a calculate node in a blockchain network.
New York realtors looking to avoid hiccups in their commission payouts can now turn to blockchain-based smart contracts. The first real estate commission split was brokered earlier this summer in Manhattan’s ritzy SoHo neighborhood by New York-based Bapple Realty.
Last week, Walmart published a patent application entitled “Delivery Reservation Apparatus and Method” which outlines a new method of “smart delivery” using blockchain technology. The proposed system will use delivery lockers located at homes, transportation hubs, and places of work to safeguard delivered items until recipients can come and sign for the packages. Blockchain will […]
Walmart Embraces Blockchain Technology for a Better Package Tracking System Walmart seems to be working again with the revolutionary blockchain technology according to a recent application published on July the 5th.
Contractium is a decentralized software that is based on Ethereum platform, which helps users create smart contract easily, securely, and trustless via desktop / mobile / web-app. Contractium is being positioned to be the internet users' smart contract application, with the vision of eliminating the print contract.
One of the numerous application of Blockchain Technology lies in property listing for apartments, villas, hotel rooms and office spaces. InfraCoins leverages blockchain technology to assist in enabling these services to reach the threshold of transition from fiat to crypto by developing a platform focused on the practical application of smart contracts and blockchain technology […]
Newton is an infrastructure for the protocol-based economy. Newton infrastructure is based on NewChain fundamental technology and hyper exchange protocol, upper level has complete commerce ecology. Participant can develop DAPP such as mall, logistics and payment in this ecology.
Earlier this week, the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) in Switzerland issued a new document as part of its annual economic report that warns citizens of the dangers of digital currencies.
Mining firm and blockchain software service company Bitfury wants to expedite blockchain development for traditional enterprise and business. Working toward this goal, the company announced today that it’s introducing Java binding for its blockchain service, Exonum.
With the creation of Bitcoin and its blockchain, Satoshi Nakamoto introduced an entirely new practical application for cryptography, unearthing an unexplored area for computer science and technological development.
