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 …
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
The Austrian National Tourist Office (ANTO), in collaboration with Ethereum-based ad platform Adbank, is running a blockchain-based digital ad campaign. ANTO is piloting blockchain technology using Adbank’s Ethereum-b…
Insurance broking firm Marsh is expanding its collaboration with IBM to provide clients with wider access to the industry’s first commercial blockchain solution for proof of insurance. The companies joined forces in A…
American telecommunications giant AT&T has announced a suite of blockchain solutions to help its customers solve their complex business problems. The solutions have been designed to work with technology from IBM and M…
Hyperledger, an open-source collaborative initiative to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies, has announced the addition of 14 new members. With this, the consortium has grown to more than 270 member organiz…
Blockchain-based payments startup Circle, in collaboration with CENTRE, has introduced a new fiat-backed stablecoin “USD Coin” or USDC. In an online post, Circle co-founders Sean Neville and Jeremy Allaire said that t…
Evernym, a developer of software solutions that leverage blockchain technology, in collaboration with the Sovrin Foundation, is launching a new initiative to help non-profits get on the identity blockchain. The initia…
SBI Ripple Asia, the joint venture between blockchain startup Ripple and Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings, has announced that it has completed its registration with the Kanto Local Finance Bureau as a licensed ag…
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) has completed a large-scale blockchain trial which demonstrated increased speed and energy efficiencies at a global scale. CSIRO’s technology ar…
Gifto, a blockchain-based decentralized application (dApp) ecosystem, has partnered with NEM, a leading blockchain application platform. Founded in 2017 by Asia Innovations Group (AIG) – a leading global social entert…
Australian commercial real estate firm Vicinity Centres, in partnership with blockchain startup Power Ledger, has announced a blockchain trial aimed at facilitating its shopping centres to supply energy to neighboring…
Dairy Farmers of America (DFA), a national cooperative owned by dairy farm families across the U.S., has announced that it has partnered with blockchain startup ripe.io to test the potential of blockchain technology i…
Japanese financial services giant SBI Group has announced that it is trialing a crypto token for retail payments and settlement over smartphones. SBI Holdings, in collaboration with tech startup Orb, is going to start…
An interbank blockchain project launched by JPMorgan in October 2017 has been joined by more than 70 banks, The Financial Times reported September 25. Royal Bank of Canada and Australia and New Zealand Banking Group L…
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has partnered with Blockchain Charity Foundation (BCF) to support the application of blockchain technology for social good. Blockchain Charity Foundation (BCF), a not-fo…
