Blockchain

The ‘Blockchain for Finance Conference’ is set to be held in Dublin on October the 3rd and 4th 2017, with over 250 senior fintech experts converging on the Aviva Stadium to discuss their blockchain strategies, in a bid to move their blockchain projects from proof-of-concept to full-scale deployment. Speakers at...

Frost & Sullivan's global TechVision’s team has found that blockchain technology is being looked into by technologists in order to resolve security concerns that surround the implementation of an Internet of Medical Things. In order to give medical patients the ability to choose the therapy that best suits them, better...

Norwegian-based CybCSec Solutions, which aims to provide personal blockchain cybersecurity features for businesses and individual users across the globe, has announced its new cryptocurrency CybCSec Coin . The company has a long-term model designed to be implemented with pre-existing as well as new businesses. The model is designed to be...

ATMChain Foundation, a foundation sponsored by Jiangsu Huaxin Blockchain Research Institute of China (JBI), has acquired 7.5 million shares of RFintech for a total consideration of EUR 15 million. RFintech and ATMChain will collaborate in the development of the next generation distributed ledger technology, starting with ATMChain's ‘blockchain+media’ platform. ATMChain...

ICOBox, the SaaS provider for conducting coin offerings, has revealed TokenStars' ACE to be the first publicly announced customer for its Box Solution. A token sale is scheduled to begin on the 31st of August, 2017. TokenStars is a blockchain talent management agency with decentralized talent scouting and promotion aiming...

The Sweetbridge Foundation, a non-profit aiming to leverage blockchain technology to power the next generation of global supply networks, has announced that it has established strategic partnerships with a number of leading companies in the blockchain, technology, and supply chain spaces in a new Liquid Value Alliance. Founding members including...

Gibraltar-based green energy exchange platform WePower has announced it will accept registrations for the fundraiser as the company prepares for its official launch. The WePower pre-launch fundraiser is structured as a reward-based crowdfunding campaign, where contributors will receive WePower tokens in return for their Ethereum contributions. Part of the green...

Singapore-based provider of blockchain protocol for digital insurance, Aigang Network has revealed its plans to disrput the insurance sector. The company's plans for the future are described in its latest whitepaper, which includes many new additions and an updated roadmap. Aigang offers a fully automated insurance protocol, made possible through...

Ambisafe has released the Beta version of Orderbook, an ethereum token exchange platform for Ethereum-based ICO tokens. The platform allows ICO participants to take advantage of high security, in which all critical operations are executed via Ethereum smart contracts. The asset information available on the platform includes dividend history, trading...

IBM and KASIKORNBANK Public Company Limited (KBank), one of Thailand's largest banks, have announced the launch of a new enterprise Letter of Guarantee network based on IBM Blockchain. The new solution is designed to help simplify and expedite procedures for KBank's Letter of Guarantee process, with the goal of improving...

NetObjex, an IoT-Blockchain application enablement platform provider, has partnered with the Brooklyn Public Library in order to offer patrons Smart Mobile Phone Charging Station technology. Powered by NetObjex's IoT-Blockchain technology platform, these charging stations enable Brooklyn Public Library to offer its patrons more convenience and security, while improving engagement through...

Po.et, a new protocol designed to accelerate solutions for the digital media industry utilizing blockchain technology and timestamped metadata, has announced a partnership with Blink, a global content studio, to fully automate the licensing requests from a global network of over 25,000 photographers, filmmakers and writers across more than 180...

Dash, a payments-focused digital currency, has received approval from the Dash community to employ the services of Bugcrowd, a prominent crowdsourced security testing company. The partnership means thousands of security researchers will be incentivized to identify critical software vulnerabilities within Dash’s code and present them to the Dash Core Team...

Rivetz Intl. has announced an advisory agreement with Parity Technologies Ltd (formerly known as Ethcore), the blockchain core technology company and creator of the Parity Ethereum software, to improve cyber security on the blockchain. Parity Technologies will guide Rivetz on the integration of cyber security controls into blockchain networks and...

An event dubbed the first ever ‘ICO-Hypethon’ has been announced for August the 16th at St. Petersburg’s Street Art Museum. The two-day event is hosted by Crypto Friends meetup and supported by blockchain solutions developers Waves Platform and the consultancy company Eberhard Lindfordt. ICO-Hypethon is open to crypto-enthusiasts and will...

Blockchain research and development company IOHK has announced that its research project with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has modelled complete, fully-executable formal semantics of the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). The research produced a framework, called KEVM, for formal execution, analysis, and verification of EVM smart contracts. The...

Coin Sciences Ltd., which develops the open source MultiChain blockchain platform, has announced the production-ready release of MultiChain 1.0, along with fourteen new members of the MultiChain Partner Program, bringing the total number of members to forty-three. Following two and a half years of feedback-driven development, MultiChain 1.0 is now...

San Francisco-based blockchain and IoT company Chronicled, Inc. has announced the completion of a technical pilot demonstrating a cryptographic method of anonymously transferring a Serialized Global Trade Item Number - or SGTIN. SGTINs identify individual items as they move through multi-stage supply chains, which can involve multiple custodians and geographic...

Blockchain technology is set to be harnessed by global research, evaluation and program implementation company Abt Associates in order to solve problematic issues in international development under a memorandum of understanding with the Central Bank of Papua New Guinea. The Central Bank of Papua New Guinea and Abt, with funding...

TodaCorp and Algorand have announced that they will enter into a joint venture known as Toda-Algorand Corp. in order to deliver a decentralized transaction platform combining the ledger-less ease and scalability of cash payment systems with a flexible ledger-based technology. The platform will also enhance and incorporate the features of...