IoT

Last night saw the second event in a series of evening seminars being held by Chain-Finance, which cover the use of blockchain technology in various financial sectors, as well some examples of current use cases or research in the relevant area. This time round, the focus was on the possibilities...

Chain of Things (CoT), a consortium that supports collaborative development on an open source standard to secure Internet of Things (IoT) devices, today announced the launch of a case study on solar panels and a London conference on 1st of June 2016, covering blockchain-based IoT security. For the case study...

Charlotte-based Encrypted Labs has announced a partnership with Berlin-based BigchainDB to make its technology available to its clients in the United States. BigchainDB is a scalable blockchain database with the advantages of a distributed database and the benefits of blockchain characteristics such as immutability, decentralized control and the ability to transfer assets over a network. BigchainDB...

The founder and lead developer of IOTA, David Sønstebø, this week announced to the IOTA community significant optimization of IOTA's core technology. IOTA is a decentralized micro-transactions cryptocurrency designed for "Internet of Things" (IoT) systems. IOTA utilizes a blockchain-alternative called ‘Tangle’ that permits IOTA to remain lightweight and efficient in the face of scalability issues that impact traditional...

Blockchain business intelligence firm Coinalytics announced that it has rebranded as Skry and added two experienced technologists in Big Data, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to its leadership team. As the new CTO, the company has hired Akash Singh, former CTO Data Science at Huawei and Chief Researcher/Architect at IBM. For Chief Data...

Skuchain, a blockchain-based supply chain app developer, recently partnered with the blockchain-for-IoT research lab, Chain of Things. I talked to Sanjay Saigal, Head of Customer Success at Skuchain, about new developments at the startup, its technology's application for IoT, and the new partnership. 1. What is new at Skuchain? We have over...

After an initial token crowdsale raising almost $2 million and being added to Microsoft's Azure Blockchain-as-a-Service, Lisk CEO Max Kordek spoke about Lisk partnering with the blockchain-enhanced IoT research lab, Chain of Things. Can you provide your name, your background in relation to blockchain/security/IoT and why you are interested in this...