Konya, a major city in Turkey, is developing a new cryptocurrency to serve its citizens better, Mayor Uğur İbrahim Altay announced this during a local congress in Ankara on Jan. 16, Sputnik Turkey reported. Altay...

Six major central banking authorities have teamed up with the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) to look into potential cases for central bank digital currency (CBDC). Participating central banks include the Bank...

Blockchain e-money startup Monerium has entered into a non-exclusive partnership with Algorand, an open source, permissionless, pure proof-of-stake blockchain protocol. Under the partnership, Monerium will issue its...

Blockchain firm Mavennet has secured a procurement contract from the government of Canada to develop an on-chain steel-tracking platform. Founded in 2018, Toronto-based Mavennet is a provider of private enterprise...

Indian telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has reached out to the National Informatics Centre (NIC) and requested them to improve the quality of public schools using blockchain technology, according to the Press Trust of...

The Bank of Lithuania, the countrys central bank, has announced its plans to issue blockchain-based digital collector coins. The banks board has approved the sample of the physical version of the digital collector coin ...

MUFG Bank has announced that it has successfully executed a live digital transaction on komgo, a blockchain-based commodity trade finance platform led by KomGo SA. KomGo SA was founded in 2018 by a number of leading...

Commercial Bank, a private sector bank in Qatar, has announced its participation in the first Blockchain Open Account Trade Finance Trial on the Marco Polo Platform. It is purportedly the biggest trial on the R3 Corda...

J. Christopher Giancarlo, former Chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), along with Charles Giancarlo and Daniel Gorfine, has partnered with Accenture on a new initiative to push for a United States...