Diamond Miner Alrosa Joins De Beers Blockchain Traceability Pilot
Russian diamond miner Alrosa has joined the Tracr diamond industry blockchain traceability platform that fellow miner De Beers is developing. Alrosa’s involvement brings the world’s two largest diamond producers together in the pilot programme that aims to provide enhanced assurance for consumers and trade participants about the authenticity of their diamonds. “To provide true traceability, […]
Alibaba Cloud Launches Global Blockchain as a Service
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, today expanded its Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) offering to major global markets including South East Asia, the U.S and Europe. Alibaba Cloud’s BaaS provides an enterprise-level platform service based on leading blockchain technologies and helps customers build a secure and stable environment for blockchain implementations. […]
Government Gibraltar Launch New Blockchain Courses
The Government of Gibraltar has announced the launch of a new advisory group that will focus on the creation of new technology related education courses, such as blockchain. The New Technologies in Education (NTiE) group will be a joint initiative between the Government and the University of Gibraltar in collaboration with some of the leading […]
COINSCHEDULE AND TRECENTO BLOCKCHAIN CAPITAL TO LAUNCH A JOINT FUND TO INVEST IN THE MOST PROMISING AND CREDIBLE TOKEN OFFERINGS
Coinschedule, the British blockchain portal, and Trecento Blockchain Capital, an asset management company, have announced today the launch of a joint investment fund called “Coinschedule Trecento BC Fund”, which will invest in early stage blockchain companies including token offerings and equity-based deals. Coinschedule was founded in 2016 by two blockchain early adopters. With the help […]
BANKEX Launched a Custody Bug Bounty of $15K
BANKEX has launched a Custody bug bounty to incentivize hackers to expose weak spots BANKEX can then fix. BANKEX will reward hackers up to $15,000. After reading news about crypto heists, having value stored in crypto might seem to be a nightmare. It seems like a pain to keep private keys safe, hiding them from […]
Chinese State Bank Uses Blockchain to Issue Digital Mortgages Worth $1.3 Billion
The Chinese state-owned Bank of Communications (BoCom) has successfully issued $1.3 billion of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) using blockchain technology, national securities outlet China Securities Times writes Wednesday, September 27. BoCom — the fifth largest bank in China according to S&P Global recent stats — used an independently developed platform called Juicai Chain to issue […]
IBM Awarded Patent for Autonomous Self-Servicing Devices Within Blockchain-Based IoT System
IBM has won a patent for the autonomous self-servicing of networked devices that form part of its Autonomous Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Telemetry (ADEPT) environment. The patent, first filed in late June 2016, was awarded by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) September 18. IBM first unveiled a proof-of-concept (PoC) for ADEPT in partnership with Samsung […]
Vitalik Buterin Says Zk-Snarks Could Scale Ethereum
A form of cryptography pioneered by zcash might help scale ethereum, the founder of the platform Vitalik Buterin said on a research forum Saturday. Named zk-snarks, Buterin wrote that by using the tech, ethereum can potentially scale “by a huge amount,” up to 500 transactions per second, without relying on layer-two scaling solutions, such as […]
Poland’s Bank to Launch Blockchain Platform for Document Management
Poland’s largest bank will launch a blockchain solution for its customer documents via a partnership with UK-based Coinform “in the coming days,” the parties confirmed in a press release Thursday, September 20. Part of a drive to enhance security of customer data, PKO Bank Polski will use Coinform’s Trudatum to provide blockchain-issued paperwork to its […]
Taiwan Hospital Launches Blockchain Platform
The Taipei Medical University Hospital has rolled out a blockchain-powered platform to improve medical record-keeping, Taipei Times reported August 31. The so called “Healthcare Blockchain Platform” was reportedly developed in order to support the government’s Hierarchical Medical System policy, improve patient referral services, and integrate individual healthcare networks to enable people to access their medical records in an […]
