In September 2018, Blockpass and Edinburgh Napier University celebrated the launch of the Blockpass Identity Lab (BIL) - an endeavour dedicated to conducting research and development around cryptography and blockchain technology intended to lead to groundbreaking applications for use in identity solutions. Located in the Merchiston Campus of Edinburgh Napier...

FuzeX has signed a partnership with payment cryptocurrency Dash. Through this partnership, both companies have expanded the use of cryptocurrency by giving people a new way to spend Dash. Expected to launch in the fourth quarter of 2018, FuzeX card will open up new opportunities for point-of-sale commerce and help...

Korean blockchain project BOScoin has announced that it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Nature Mobility to carry out public financing for a rideshare project for all transportation options including bicycles, rental cars, cars, buses, and vans on BOScoin's mainet using its blockchain technology. As a unified...

Ethos.io, a cryptocurrency services provider, has unveiled its institutional blockchain solutions platform Ethos Bedrock. Ethos Bedrock is a high-performance Blockchain Financial Services (BFS) platform. Bedrock was built with the vision of making blockchain and cryptographic protocols as easy and accessible as internet protocols. Using Bedrock, institutions can safely and securely...

SOMA, a blockchain-powered decentralized platform that facilitates trade and social interaction, has announced it has received Round One funding from Business Finland, a public funding agency for research and innovation in Finland. The agency is directed by the Finnish Ministry of Employment and the Economy. SOMA will receive €50,000 in...

Job.com, a blockchain-powered recruitment platform, recently opened its ICO white list registration and the company has also released its whitepaper to the public. The price of JOB token is USD$.065. There are 384,615,385 tokens for sale which represent 38.46% of the total supply of one billion JOB Tokens. The majority...

Following on from previous work together, A.P. Moller –Maersk and IBM have announced the creation of TradeLens, jointly developed by the two companies to apply blockchain to the world's global supply chain. TradeLens is the result of a collaboration agreement between Maersk and IBM, a blockchain-enabled shipping solution designed to...

DISH, a subscription model pay-TV provider, has announced it has added Bitcoin Cash as a payment option and is now using BitPay, the global blockchain payments provider, as the payment processor for Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash transactions with customers. Executive vice president and chief operating officer of DISH, John Swieringa...

London-based blockchain company Humaniq has launched a pilot project, Humaniq Farm, for users in the agricultural business, in order to enable them to advance as entrepreneurs. According to a study conducted by the Humaniq team, agriculture is a vital sector for sub-Saharan Africa; however, given Africa’s rapid economic transformation, demographic...

Blockchain OTC trading platform ‘Xtock’ has announced the launch of its ‘teaser’ website. The company will be providing a blockchain based OTC token, which will be based on off-the-shelf, real-time financial and corporate data solutions. Xtock stated that the database and evaluation platform will allow businesses, as well as users,...

Constellation Labs, a horizontally-scalable blockchain for consumer-grade applications, has announced the release of its testnet — the first version of Constellation’s base code. This launch begins a process of building out a small network of nodes, which communicate with each other in order to prevent “bad actors” on the system....

eMusic, a supporter of independent artists and labels since 1998, has announced a $70M token sale to build a decentralized music distribution and royalty management system. eMusic is planning a public pre-sale for its eMusic utility token (EMU) beginning in September 2018, with a token generation event (TGE) immediately following....

Mistertango, a crypto-friendly payment company, has revealed that, contrary to perception, the majority of crypto exchanges want industry regulation. Respondents believe regulation is needed for the industry to mature with nearly a third fearing a major market crash and sudden devaluation of assets without change. Despite the desire for regulation,...

Ambrosus, a blockchain and IoT platform for quality assurance in food and pharmaceutical supply chains, has announced the launch of its mainnet, AMB-NET 1.0. The mainnet lets companies record public and private supply chain data on the Ambrosus blockchain to ensure product quality. The platform has created a universally verifiable,...

Cryptocurrency Dash has announced a partnership with Tradecore, a software company that enables brokerages to process hundreds of millions of dollars in payments and streamline on-boarding, support and marketing services. Through the partnership, financial service providers and businesses operating on capital markets will be able to send, receive and hold...

Amberdata, a provider of blockchain monitoring and analytics, has announced a partnership with Aion Network to provide real-time transparency and intelligence of Aion's blockchain on Amberdata's platform for the community. With support for both the Aion Kilimanjaro (Mainnet) and Aion Conquest (Testnet) blockchains, Amberdata will offer a full suite of...

TransferTo is has announced a partnering with Stellar.org to further enhance the way in which money is transferred across borders. Under this collaboration, financial institutions and partners of both Stellar.org and TransferTo will benefit from the combined network coverage, and be able to leverage new technologies to send and receive...

Codex Protocol, a decentralized asset registry for the arts & collectibles (A&C) asset class, has announced the launch of its token sale. The token sale will have a hard cap of $15 million USD, and has already seen $12 million USD contributed in a successful private presale round, with notable...

The Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX), which aims to position itself as a world-leading institutional-grade token sale platform and Digital Asset Exchange, has undergone its official full-scale launch. The newly launched exchange is now open to members of the public and will feature fiat on-boarding for customers, as well as a...

Swiss blockchain company KryptoPal will be working together with Gulf University in the Kingdom of Bahrain to develop and then implement a self-sovereign student portfolio management system built on smart contract technology. Currently, students must send transcripts and certifications to many colleges when they apply for a new program but...