Canada-based University of British Columbia (UBC) has announced that it is offering a blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) training program for graduate students. This first-of-its-kind program will pay...

Fuzhou City in China is providing rent subsidies for blockchain businesses with the hope to enhance the sectors growth, according to state-run Peoples Daily. The grant, which is a part of the citys three measures to...

Swiss logistics company Panalpina has announced that a pilot project in order to demonstrate the benefits of blockchain technology for supply chains. In an online post dated June 11, the company said that it has...

Blockchain-enabled genome sequencing startup Nebula Genomics has inked its first pharma partnership with Merck KGaAs EMD Serono. The goal of this pilot program is to help EMD Serono, the biopharmaceutical arm of Merck...

UK insurer Legal General is collaborating with Amazon to create a blockchain system for corporate pension deals, Reuters reported. Legal General is one of the UKs largest investment managers for corporate pension...

Governments are fickle things. Within a given country, the direction of progress may zig and zag, depending on the particular leadership of a given moment and the rate of turnover from one administration to the next. A...

Visa has announced the commercial launch of the Visa B2B Connect, a distributed ledger-based, non-card payment network. First previewed in October 2016, Visa B2B Connect aims to give financial institutions a simple,...

The United States National Archives and Records Administration is exploring how blockchain technology can improve the management of information, Federal News Network reported June 10. Eric Kyle Douglas, a records...

Overstock.coms blockchain subsidiary Medici Land Governance and Liberias Ministry of Finance and Development Planning have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to digitize the government services of the African...

Retail giant Target has revealed that it has been working on a blockchain proof of concept (POC) for the management of supplier certifications. The project, which began in mid-2018, was open sourced under the codename...