A number of blockchain companies and non-profit organizations are teaming up to work on an alternative to Facebooks Libra. The new project, called OpenLibra, bills itself as a technology platform and currency for...

Blockchain startup Ripple has announced its partnership with fintech company Finastra aimed at facilitating faster cross-border payments. Through this partnership, Ripple will offer its blockchain technology through...

Switzerlands banking giant UBS has started executing transactions on we.trade blockchain platform for trade finance, which will soon be adopted by other member banks. The Swiss bank revealed it went live on we.trade at...

KB Kookmin Bank, one of the four biggest South Korean banks by asset value, revealed that it plans to integrate blockchain technology into its internal processes. The announcement was made at the Enterprise Ethereum and...

Hyundai Digital Access Currency (Hdac) is reportedly planning to set up a $10 million fund to invest in blockchain. According to a report by Korean outlet The Financial News, the fund will be allocated to launch its...

Microsoft and Intel are supporting a new system of reward tokens created by the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) to incentivize groups of companies. Showcased Tuesday at the Ethereum Foundations conference, Devcon 5,...

Innovative blockchain platform Beowulf has announced a partnership with the National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU), a top tier higher education institution in Taiwan. The partnership focuses on easing the barriers to...

Algorands investment arm Algo Capital lost around $12 million in Tether stablecoins and Algorand tokens after the mobile phone of its chief technology officer was breached. Citing sources with knowledge about the...

Seven European countries this week signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for cooperation and sharing of knowledge in the area of distributed ledger technologies. The group of seven countries, called the...

Telegrams blockchain project, Telegram Open Network (TON), is on track for its scheduled launch this month, as per an email sent to TON investors. Original investors received emails from the Telegram core team, a post...

Supply chain management firm Tradeshift, in collaboration with licensed fintech firm Monerium, has completed a transaction on the ethereum blockchain using smart contracts and licensed e-money. Backed by ConsenSys,...

Xpring, an investment arm of Ripple, is launching an open developer platform that will make it easier for developers to move money instantly across any payments network. According to the official announcement dated...

The Uruguay Digital Party is set to adopt blockchain technology in its internal voting process. In order to embrace the technology, the political party, which started in 2013, is teaming up with blockchain startup...

Chicago-based rating firm Morningstar plans to bring its services to the ethereum blockchain, as it seeks to begin rating blockchain-based debt securities. According to Forbes, the rating firm has already worked on...