Air France-KLM, a Franco-Dutch airline holding company, has partnered with Swiss travel platform Winding Tree to bring blockchain benefits to the travel industry. The companies will collaborate to leverage blockchain …
Japan Bank Consortium, a blockchain alliance led by SBI Ripple Asia – a joint venture between Ripple and SBI Holdings, has launched the much-awaited MoneyTap app, Ripple confirmed in a tweet on Thursday.
Cryptocurrency wallet provider Abra has announced a new token in order to widen the access to cryptocurrency investing. The startup has launched Bitwise 10 Crypto Index Token (BIT10), developed in partnership with San…
Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon on Thursday announced a five-year plan to foster blockchain ecosystem, Yonhap News reported. Park announced a number of initiatives that aim to make Seoul a hub for blockchain development and…
Singapore’s leading containership operator has announced plans to trial blockchain technology to enhance supply chain management process. Pacific International Lines (PIL) is teaming up with IBM Singapore to leverage …
South Korean telecom giant KT has announced its plans to develop a blockchain-based peer-to-peer donation platform, ZDNet reported. The platform will be developed in collaboration with affiliate KT Group Hope Sharing …
Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini has announced that it has secured insurance coverage for custodied digital assets that it holds on behalf its customers in its online hot wallet through a global consortium of industry-l…
Insurance broking firm Marsh, in collaboration with Evident, is developing a blockchain-based identity and insurance verification solution. The blockchain solution is designed to simplify the insurance and identity ve…
BTC/USD: Bitcoin prices remained slightly on the downside during late European session Wednesday, as investors still remain clouded by pessimism for the past few weeks amid earlier decisions by top financial authoriti…
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange in terms of 24-hour trading volume has invested more than $2.5 million in Australian startup TravelbyBit. Founded in 2017, TravelbyBit is a digital currency payment…
A number of companies including the likes of gaming giant Ubisoft and blockchain startup ConsenSys have come together to form the Blockchain Game Alliance. Other participating firms include Fig, EverdreamSoft, B2Expan…
Her Majesty's Land Registry, a non-ministerial department of the UK government, has announced that it is exploring blockchain technology for faster and simpler services. HM Land Registry has partnered with software fi…
Italian Banking Association (ABI) has announced that it has successfully completed the first phase of a blockchain project and is now entering the second phase. A group of 14 Italian banks began their work on the bloc…
Blockchain startup TRON has announced the details of a new project that will connect BitTorrent’s users to the TRON blockchain and incentivize them with crypto tokens. The company has revealed the details of Project A…
Crypto mining giant Bitmain has acquired Telescope, a bitcoin cash browser wallet, CoinDesk reported. Launched earlier this year, Telescope aimed to facilitate instant bitcoin cash transactions. The wallet can current…
Crypto exchange Coinbase has announced that Chris Dodds, who serves on the Board of Directors of The Charles Schwab Corporation and as a senior private equity advisor, has joined the company’s Board of Directors. Dodd…
Google is implementing stricter rules for Chrome extension developers – a move that should help reduce the risk of cryptojacking and hacks, CoinDesk reported. In an online post on Monday, the search engine giant annou…
Enterprise software firm SAP has launched two new consortia in a bid to accelerate industry-specific blockchain co-innovation with customers and partners. The consortium groups have been formed within the SAP Blockcha…
Messaging giant LINE has announced plans to launch five new decentralized apps (dApps) as it unveiled its plans to launch its own token economy. The dApps will be launched in five service categories including predicti…
we.trade, a blockchain consortium backed by banking giants, has announced that it is collaborating with three banks – CaixaBank, Erste Group, and UBS – from the former Batavia consortium. Initiated by UBS and IBM back…
Blockchain startup Ripple has announced that xRapid, its on-demand liquidity solution, is now commercially available and is moving into production with multiple customers. Launched in beta in late last summer, xRapid …
South Korean blockchain startup TEMCO has announced that it has secured institutional investment from Korea Investment Partners (KIP), one of the leading venture capital firms in the country. KIP is the latest to join…
Leading web browser Opera has entered into a partnership with Ledger Capital, a blockchain advisory and financial services firm, to further support its blockchain technology initiative. Under this partnership, the com…
DrumG Technologies, a fintech startup founded by a former R3 executive, has raised $6.5 million in its Series A minority investment round. Global blockchain company ConsenSys is the sole investor in this funding round…
IOHK, the company behind the top 10 cryptocurrency Cardano, has expanded the reach of its technology to a wide range of third-party developers with the launch of its first open source project. The company has launched…
The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA), a consortium driving the adoption of Enterprise Ethereum, and Hyperledger, an open source collaborative effort advancing cross-industry blockchain technologies, have announced t…
BTC/USD: Bitcoin prices during late European session Monday, as pessimistic investor sentiments continued to cloud the cryptocurrency market for the past few months. However, the overall trend remained bullish. Accord…
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has refuted recent reports that suggested it established an AI and blockchain technology-focused research unit. In August, leading Indian news outlet The Economic Times reported that th…
Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) has become the first financial institution on RippleNet to pioneer “multi-hop” feature. Using this new feature, the bank would be able to settle frictionless payments on behalf of other fina…
A cohort of fintech companies in the U.S. are joining forces to launch a lobbying group in Washington D.C., Bloomberg reported. Called “Securing America's Internet of Value Coalition (SAIV)”, the initiative includes R…
Indian government think tank NITI Aayog is seeking to leverage cutting-edge technologies to curb the rampant distribution of fake drugs in the country, The Hindu reported. On these lines, NITI Aayog has entered into a…
JD Finance, the finance affiliate of JD.com, has set up the Smart City Research Institute at its headquarters in Nanjing, CoinTelegraph reported referring to a report from People’s Daily. It is the first regional head…
Hot on the heels of the launch of the PUBLISH Protocol, TokenPost, a leading blockchain and cryptocurrency media outlet, has taken a step forward and announced a new initiative to bring blockchain benefits to the medi…
US Congressman to introduce three bills to support blockchain and crypto development US Congressman Tom Emmer last week announced that he will introduce three bills to support blockchain technology and cryptocurrencie…
Blockchain startup Ripple has officially announced its social impact program – Ripple for Good – which will focus on projects related to education and financial inclusion. The company said that it is committing an add…
The government of Austria is going to notarize the auction of a government bond worth €1.15 billion (approximately $1.3 billion) using Ethereum blockchain, CoinDesk reported. The Finance Ministry on Tuesday announced …
German carmaker Porsche has announced that it has increased its total investment in venture capital activities by EUR 150 million for the next five years. According to the official release, the investment activities a…
National Stock Exchange of India (NSE), in collaboration with Elemential Labs, is going to test blockchain technology for e-voting for listed companies. NSE is a leading stock exchange of India with a market capitaliz…
Chinese banking giant Bank of Communications has issued a total of 9.3 billion yuan (or around $1.3 billion) worth of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBSs) via Jucai Chain – its proprietary blockchain network…
BTC/USD: Bitcoin prices remained range-bound during late European session Thursday, after days of topsy-turvy movements. At the time of writing, BTC/USD gained 0.11 percent to $6,471.50. Meanwhile, the near-term suppo…
