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…
Walmart has announced that it is deploying blockchain technology to track leafy greens in the wake of a large outbreak of E. coli. In a press release, the retail giant and its subsidiary Sam’s Club said that they have…
Professional Italian football club Juventus, which recently signed soccer megastar Cristiano Ronaldo, has announced its partnership with blockchain platform Socios.com to launch Fan Token. Socios.com is a blockchain-b…
UNICEF France announced last week that it is targeting a new category of donors as it starts accepting donations in cryptocurrencies. The organization has announced support for nine cryptocurrencies – Bitcoin (BTC), E…
Kasikornbank has become the first Thai financial institution to join the Visa B2B Connect pilot program, The Nation reported. Visa B2B Connect is a platform designed to give financial institutions a secure, fast and p…
The U.S. Navy Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) is looking into the use of blockchain technology in tracking aviation parts throughout the parts life-cycle. The current process of knowing the origin and history of fl…
The Smart Dubai Office (SDO), in collaboration with the Dubai Department of Finance, has launched a blockchain-based system to enable real-time processing of payments and expedite government transactions, according to…
The National University of Singapore (NUS) School of Computing has established an academic research laboratory and think tank focused on blockchain technology. Called CRYSTAL Centre, which stands for Cryptocurrency St…
Privacy web browser Brave is collaborating with Civic, a blockchain-based identity verification startup, to bring the latter’s identity verification services to its verified publishers. There are currently more than 2…
UK lawmakers call for regulation of 'Wild West' crypto market The UK Treasury Committee today published a report in which it has called upon the regulation of the “Wild West” crypto-asset market. The release of the re…
Albert Heijn, the largest Dutch supermarket chain, in partnership with Refresco, is seeking to make orange juice supply chain more transparent using blockchain technology, European Supermarket Magazine reported. Accor…
The government of South Korea has pledged its support for domestic blockchain companies to further encourage the booming blockchain industry in the country, Business Korea reported. On Thursday, September 20, Second V…
SK Planet, a subsidiary of South Korea’s SK Telecom, is planning to go big on blockchain, The Next Web reported. The telecom titan has inked a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the ICON Foundation in order to cre…
PKO Bank Polski, Poland’s largest bank, is going to roll out a new blockchain system which will mark the technology’s one of the biggest applications in Europe till date, according to The First News. Earlier this year…
PNC Bank, a leading bank in the United States, has announced that PNC Treasury Management has joined RippleNet – Ripple’s enterprise blockchain network with over 100-member banks and financial institutions. PNC is one…
Associated British Ports (ABP), which owns and operates 21 ports in the UK, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with digital logistics enabler Marine Transport International (MTI), to explore blockchain pot…
Major banking giants, trading companies, inspection company and an energy major have teamed up for a new venture with the aim of digitizing the trade and commodities finance sector through a blockchain based open plat…
Indian IT company NIIT Technologies has announced a new blockchain-based solution for airlines and its partners. Called “Chain-m,” the solution will address the issues faced by airlines and its partners in the backend…
Digital security company Gemalto has announced a new blockchain-based solution that aims to put users in control of their digital identities. The company has built a new digital identity solution – called Trust ID Net…
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is going to discuss blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) during World Standards Week (WSW) 2018, to be held October 15–19 in Washington, DC. The topics will be d…
Audit and consulting giant Deloitte is collaborating with Singapore-based blockchain startup Jupiter Chain to implement an innovative data exchange in Southeast Asia. The data exchange aims to transform the way data i…
The European Central Bank (ECB) does not intend to issue central bank-backed digital currency (CBDC), the ECB president Mario Draghi said last week. Draghi attributed the reasons behind this decision to the underlying…
BMW Group Financial Services is partnering with blockchain startup Bloom in a bid to enhance customer lending solution. The project is part of the BMW Collaboration Lab 2018 and aims to streamline customer journey and…
Lamda256, the blockchain research unit of Dunamu – the operator of South Korean crypto exchange Upbit, has introduced a new blockchain app developer tool called “Luniverse.” Luniverse will enable developers to build v…
Tech giant IBM has announced that it has joined the HACERA Unbounded Registry as a founding member. Founded in 2015, HACERA is an enterprise blockchain firm focused on highly secure Authentication, Authorization and A…
South Korea-based LG Uplus Corp., Japan’s SoftBank, Taiwan’s Far EasTone, and U.S.-based TBCASoft are joining forces to trial a cross-carrier blockchain platform. All four project participants are the members of the C…
Indian private sector insurer ICICI Prudential Life is seeking to leverage blockchain technology for faster claims settlement, The Hindu Business Line reported. ICICI Prudential Life began its operations in the fiscal…
The ID2020 Alliance, a nonprofit public-private partnership committed to improving lives through digital identity, has announced its first two pilot projects. According to the official release, both the projects will …
France creates legal framework for ICOs The French parliament has implemented a legal framework for initial coin offerings (ICOs), French Finance minister Bruno Le Maire confirmed via Twitter. Under the new legislatio…
Samsung SDS, an IT subsidiary of South Korean tech giant Samsung Group, has announced that it will build the world’s first blockchain-based export customs clearance system in an initiative led by the Korea Customs Ser…
The National Commercial Bank (NCB), one of the largest financial institutions in the Middle East, is the latest to join RippleNet, Ripple’s enterprise blockchain network with over 100-member banks and financial instit…
Rostec, a Russian state-owned manufacturing conglomerate, has signed an agreement with Vostok, a blockchain startup founded by the Waves platform team, CoinDesk reported. Under the agreement, the companies will work t…
Indian’s Union Cabinet has given its approval to Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) to conduct collaborative research on distributed ledger and blockchain technology with participating member banks under BRICS. L…
The Institutes RiskBlock Alliance, a blockchain consortium for the risk management and insurance industry, has announced the launch of the industry’s first end-to-end reusable blockchain framework, using the Corda, R3…
Japanese telecom carrier Softbank, U.S.-based blockchain firm TBCASoft, and Synchronoss Technologies, a provider of cloud, messaging, digital and IoT products, have teamed up on a Proof of Concept (PoC) for a Rich Com…
In a bid to create a pro-innovation environment for the blockchain industry, leading crypto and blockchain companies have joined forces to establish Blockchain Association. Founding members include Coinbase, Protocol …
