Oracle, an American multinational computer technology corporation, and the World Bee Project have partnered to use blockchain technology to track the origin of honey.
Japanese IT giant Fujitsu has developed what it calls “a digital identity exchange technology” that will enable individual users and service businesses involved in online transactions to confirm the identity of other …
Cuba is currently experiencing an economic crisis after sanctions were placed on the island nation by the United States. New reports indicate that it is now considering using cryptocurrency as a means of getting aroun…
Tech giant IBM in partnership with Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ), Commonwealth Bank, real estate operator Scentre Group, and Australia’s first bank Westpac has launched a live pilot for a new blockchai…
Blockchain startup Chronicled has announced the official launch of its MediLedger Product Verification Solution.
Efficiency issues have caused Sberbank, the largest bank in Russia, to break away from its participation in the Masterchain initiative that was launched by the country’s central bank. The institution’s head of blockch…
Blockchain security company CipherTrace is going to roll out a new solution, which is intended to help cryptocurrency firms comply better with the new Financial Action Task Force (FATF) guidelines.
Longenesis, a Latvian fintech service provider, has collaborated with two major South Korean health providers to integrate blockchain-based medical consent platform.
Indian telecoms are reportedly in their final stretch of operationalizing a new framework that aims to tackle unsolicited commercial communication (UCC) or spam messages or calls, The Economic Times reported citing Te…
Nestlé, the biggest revenue-based food company, has unveiled a blockchain-based pilot program to track its supply chains.
PUBLISH Inc., a provider of blockchain solutions for media businesses, has announced that the Korea Internet Newspaper Association (KINA) will be using its blockchain-based content management system, called PUBLISHsoft.
EMURGO, the official commercial arm of the Cardano project, has joined the Chamber of Digital Commerce, a trade association representing the digital asset and blockchain industry, as part of its Executive Committee.
Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and Singapore-based blockchain startup Perlin.
Digital asset exchange Huobi Group is jointly working with Nervos, a layered blockchain network to support the decentralized economy, to launch its own public blockchain network focused on decentralized financial (DeF…
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has recently announced its selection of the most promising Technology Pioneers of 2019.
Dutch banking giant ABN Amro has announced the successful transport of the first paperless, immediately funded, door-to-door traceable container from South Korea to the Netherlands using the blockchain-based Deliver p…
Electricity distributor Alectra Utilities and Interac, a Canadian interbank network, have collaborated to use distributed ledger technology (DLT) to offer monetizable incentives to people who use renewable energy, acc…
Public blockchain project Ontology Network announced its partnership with Opera browser in decentralized finance (DeFi) and decentralized applications (dApps) sectors.
Global re/insurance broker Aon has announced the launch of a blockchain-based platform for agricultural insurance policies for smallholder farmers in Sri Lanka.
Neo-investment bank for digital security issuance Equisafe has successfully completed its first real estate transaction using blockchain in France, according to media outlet NextFinance.
Golem, the entity that is known for developing decentralized CPU power, recently announced that it is branching off with a new focus in mind called the Golem Foundation. It will be testing the waters to see if its new…
It was recently reported that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is developing blockchain technology through its Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT). This is intended to create a decentra…
Blockchain has had a presence in the energy industry for some time now and a recent participant is Clearway Energy Group. As one of the biggest entities in the clean energy industry in the U.S., its role in growing th…
As an industry first, the Swiss banking institution Dukascopy has announced that it is launching a stablecoin called Dukascash. This will serve as a supplementary coin for the bank’s crypto ambitions alongside its own…
FATF to move cryptocurrency operators from "dark shadows” as it calls for stronger regulations The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) will focus on combating money laundering and terrorism financing by strengthening c…
Blockchain technologies have a way of transforming entire industries and now, the subsidiary of South Korean tech giant Kakao, Ground X has launched its own blockchain platform.
Blockchain development firm Graph Blockchain has secured a pilot contract for Korea Post and partnered with Korea Telecom to adopt private blockchain to ensure information privacy.
Bofrost Italia, a company known for its door-to-door sale and distribution of frozen foods, is the latest company in the food sector looking to leverage blockchain technology to track its products along the supply chain.
In a recent successful round of fundraising, the blockchain startup 3Box raised $2.5 million. This was due to the central premise of the company’s service, which is to simplify login. Such a straightforward concept im…
Waves Blockchain is poised to up its game by enabling the development of dApps and the offering of smart contracts that would then place it on the same level as Ethereum and other rivals. The upgrade is dubbed Node 1.…
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) announced that it will allow blockchain companies to utilize its global payments innovation (GPI) platform to transact near real-time payments.
The Union of Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) is planning to incorporate blockchain technology into public services.
EY, an international assurance, tax, and advisory company, has partnered with artificial intelligence (AI) firm Sensyne Health and enterprise blockchain company Guardtime to tie medicine payments to clinical treatment…
Leading U.S.-based global clinical trial laboratory services organization Q2 Solutions has collaborated with HSBlox and carried out a sample tracking proof-of-concept (POC) of human biological samples in clinical tria…
It was recently announced that Walmart China will be implementing a new blockchain initiative that is intended to keep track of items that will become available on its shelves in the near future. Many of these are foo…
The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) and Microsoft revealed the launch of their new “Go Digital” program, which aims to help businesses confront the challenges brought by digital transformation.
The Malta government’s new rent laws will require all property rental contracts to be registered on the blockchain, Malta Today reported, citing the island nation’s Prime Minister Joseph Muscat.
eToro recently tested if it can implement its asset tokenization in Libra, Facebook’s new cryptocurrency, and it turns out that it can. The trading platform said as much in a recent press release where it provided det…
There have been several collaborative efforts of late to address the problem of drugs supplies in the US and several parts of the world. One of the more significant of these partnerships is the one involving Walmart, …
There have been several cases over the past few years that proved how unstable the distribution of disaster relief funds can be when not managed properly. To this end, non-profit Oxfam is working on a new project inte…
