The New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), which is under the Japan’s Ministry of Economy has announced that it is working on a data-sharing platform that uses blockchain technology. The platform will mainly serve the country’s trade industry. Promoting research and application of energy and industrial technologies The NEDO is the biggest public […]
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Former Visa Inc (NYSE:V) Managing Director Kevin Jenkins Joins Blockchain Payments & Identity Brand Nuggets
The former managing director of Visa Inc (NYSE:V), Kevin Jenkins has joined the blockchain payments and identity brand Nuggets. This new development is expected to give a major boost to the expansion plans of the company. As per the report, Nuggets wants to team up with financial institutions in Europe and other parts of the […]
Smart Dubai & DIFC Team Up To Explore Possibilities Of Improving Judicial System With Blockchain
The Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) and Smart Dubai Courts have teamed up to explore how blockchain-based technology can possibly bring an improvement in the judicial system. According to reports, the two entities are planning to come up with the first “Court of the Blockchain” in the world. DIFC & Smart Dubai to bring transformation […]
HEX Innovation’s Blockchain-Powered Medical Platform Starts Operations
HEX Innovation based in Gong Kong has announced that it has launched a blockchain technology platform that will specifically carry medical information. The company made the announcement during this year’s Hybrid Summit, which was held in Bangkok. Hybrid Summit is a blockchain conference. Managing patients’ records In a statement, the company said that the platform […]
Deloitte Says Blockchain Will Revolutionize the CPG and Retail Industries
The prominent auditing company Deloitte is seeing a big role for the blockchain in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) and retail industries in the near future. The auditing firm has conducted a study on 50 blockchain use cases in two sectors namely payments and contracts and consumer and supply chain businesses. According to the research, […]
Singapore Is Open To Allowing Decentralized Exchanges Exist In Harmony Within Its Diverse Ecosystem
Most of the governments around the globe are holding back whenever its gets to the point of embracing excessive decentralization. They reserve fears that the step could end up making them lose control over specific sections of their local economies. The current stand of Singapore Whether they are justified or not Singapore remains unmoved by […]
Stellar Lumens Intends To Host The First Token By IBM (NYSE:IBM) On The XLM Blockchain Technology
It is true the bear trend in cryptocurrency market has been a big deal. However, the world has had its own way in terms of the way it reacts to things. The world is apparently paying a greater deal of attention to Blockchain technology. A person well conversant with the matter but who spoke from […]
Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) Teams Up With Accenture Plc (NYSE:CAN), Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) & Israeli Fintech Firm To Launch Blockchain-Based Lending Platform
The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) teamed up with Accenture Plc (NYSE:CAN), Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) & Israeli Fintech firm The Floor to launch a new securities lending blockchain technology-based platform. It was started in March 2017 at the International Blockchain Hackathon. The “first of its kind” platform will be based on the Intel Hyperledger Sawtooth […]
Philippine Blockchain Community Asks Government to Help with Upskilling
The Philippine Association of Digital Commerce and Decentralized Industry (PADCDI) has called for closer partnership with the government so as to boost knowledge and skills of local workers in order to make them familiar with global app developers. The move is aimed at making the country achieve its dreams of becoming a leading global blockchain […]
South Korean Lawmakers Draft Bill To Legalize ICOs
A group of lawmakers in South Korea is drafting a bill to legalize the initial coin offerings (ICOs) under new conditions set by the government. The new bill emanated from the need to review the current situation in the country during the ICO and Blockchain Technology Forum held recently at the National Assembly. Last year, […]
