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PortuguêsBitcoin’s mining difficulty is at a record high, Singapore’s central bank digital currency could find commercial use and Chinese firms are going in on Filecoin. Here’s the story: You’re reading Blockchain…
Continue ReadingA blockchain project from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and state investor Temasek has completed its final development phase and is now being considered as the basis for commercial…
Continue ReadingThree global industry leaders in telecommunications — Spain’s Telefónica, Deutsche Telekom, and British provider Vodafone — have jointly finalized a trial blockchain solution for the settlement of roaming discount agreements. …
Continue ReadingSingapore authorities announced today that their blockchain payments project, Project Ubin, is complete and ready for commercial launch. The Monetary Authority of Singapore, or MAS, first undertook Project Ubin in…
Continue ReadingThe Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands has launched a blockchain-based pilot with some of the world’s leading shipping companies to improve the safety and efficiency of millions of containers…
Continue ReadingRelease, a blockchain-powered social commerce platform, has announced on July 12 that its platform is ready to transform the agriculture and fishing industry. The agriculture and fishery industries have a…
Continue ReadingThe five-day Unitize virtual blockchain conference organized by BlockShow and San Francisco Blockchain Week ended with the final session on Friday. The event saw appearances from Heath Tarbert, the chairman…
Continue ReadingFabio Canesin, co-founder of blockchain fintech firm Nash, believes that as the world comes out of the COVID-19 pandemic, blockchain technology offers a “unique” opportunity to the public due to…
Continue ReadingDuring a gaming-focused Unitize digital conference panel, Mike Termezy, vice president of token economics at blockchain technology services company Forte Labs, explained blockchain can alter gaming market ecosystems. Blockchain can…
Continue ReadingThe government of South Korea is trying its best to adopt blockchain technology in various industries. The country’s central bank is reviewing the use of a central bank digital currency,…
Continue ReadingCoinbase will host its first investor day, New York State prosecutors won a jurisdictional dispute involving Bitfinex and a protocol arms race is unfolding in Latin America. Here’s the story: You’re…
Continue ReadingPersonal data for over a million Russian nationals has reportedly been leaked. The data allegedly belongs to some of the citizens who participated in the recent blockchain-based e-vote on Constitutional…
Continue ReadingRetail and enterprise blockchain adoption trends dominated the discussions on days three and four of the ongoing virtual conference Unitize, organized by BlockShow and San Francisco Blockchain Week and sponsored…
Continue ReadingStephanie Hurder, a CoinDesk columnist, is a founding economist at Prysm Group, an economic advisory focused on the implementation of emerging technologies, and an academic contributor to the World Economic…
Continue ReadingThere may be an enterprise blockchain arms race brewing in Latin America. LatamLink, an alliance of three organizations involved in the launch of the EOS public blockchain in 2018, is…
Continue ReadingThe Australian National Blockchain Roadmap Steering Committee has reached out to the wider blockchain community in order to create working groups to explore specific applications of the technology within the…
Continue ReadingShanghai courts are using Blockchain technology to record hearings as part of a court reform pilot, according to China’s local news on July 8. Participants at a recent court reform…
Continue ReadingWhile it may be a long-standing joke in the developer community that any bug can be turned into a feature simply by documenting it, the fact is that blockchain deployment…
Continue ReadingCoinbase is said to be preparing to go public, CENTRE blasklisted a decentralized address and U.S. sanctions on China could trickle down to crypto brokerages. Here’s the story: You’re reading Blockchain…
Continue ReadingAnimoca Brands, the firm behind blockchain-powered games The Sandbox, F1 Delta Time, and Crazy Defense Heroes, has reported unaudited revenue for the first four months of 2020 of $7.34 million…
Continue ReadingDuring a Unitize panel on Wednesday, Ali Loveys commented that the biggest challenge in the blockchain space is not the technology itself, but rather whether the business model or values…
Continue ReadingOne of the July 8 panels from the Asian version of Unitize brought together two key participants in the promotion of blockchain technology in their respective regions. Marloes Pomp, who…
Continue ReadingHOW ARE WE, a performance art collaboration consisting of 15 short works filmed in COVID-19 quarantine, has been hashed and minted into a non-fungible token on the Ethereum blockchain. Additionally,…
Continue ReadingThe Chinese equivalent of Uber will pilot the nation’s digital yuan, a major Ethereum alliance is moving to support DeFi as Nexo gets ready to enter the prime brokerage space…
Continue ReadingOn July 8, Volvo Cars Tech Fund announced their investment in blockchain traceability startup, Circulor. Volvo previously used Circulor’s traceability solution to track cobalt in its batteries. Much of cobalt…
Continue ReadingDuring yesterday’s Unitize blockchain conference, developer Bruno Škvorc illustrated how a Polkadot-based blockchain can be launched within one hour. When speaking at event on July 7, Škvorc explained in detail…
Continue ReadingIn modern business, there are no areas left where blockchain enthusiasts will not try to use the technology. Distributed ledger technology is used in logistics, manufacturing, games and in facial…
Continue ReadingTech Mahindra, the IT subsidiary of Indian conglomerate Mahindra Group, has launched a new blockchain-based digital contracts and rights platform for the media and entertainment industry. Developed using IBM’s blockchain…
Continue ReadingBenjamin Soh, founder of blockchain development firm STACS, said that institutional players, not business-to-consumer companies, will drive the mass adoption of financial infrastructure built on blockchain technology. During the Unitize…
Continue ReadingOcean Protocol, a decentralized data exchange protocol focussed on data collation, sharing, and monetization, has announced a pilot project partnering with Mercedes-Benz’ manufacturer Daimler AG. Daimler’s South East Asia subsidiary…
Continue ReadingOne of the world’s largest freight carriers wants to use an enterprise blockchain from the Alibaba Group to cut costs. Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media…
Continue ReadingIn its first-ever, the Chinese steelmaker Nanjing Iron and Steel Company said it has completed an iron ore trade on the blockchain. The steel company obtained a $16.87 million shipment…
Continue ReadingChainlink (LINK) reached an all-time high of $5.60, appreciating 15% on the day. This comes amid the news that China’s Blockchain Service Network, or BSN, launched this past weekend. LINK…
Continue ReadingAndong, a city in the Gyeongbuk province of South Korea, announced on July 7 that they’ve been granted a permit to operate a free trade zone for industrial hemp. They…
Continue ReadingAt least 75 crypto and blockchain firms received approximately $30 million in government-backed PPP loans during the COVID-19 economic crunch while Binance continues to donate personal protective equipment equipment through…
Continue ReadingKevin Chou, CEO and co-founder at blockchain ecosystem Rally, believes that blockchain technology could lead the charge toward a virtual economy in the web 3.0 era. Speaking at Unitize on…
Continue ReadingOne of India’s largest farm producer organizations (FPO), Sahyadri Farmers Producer Co, is integrating blockchain into its business process. FPOs are member-based institutions of farmers that are the result of…
Continue ReadingThe much-delayed blockchain role-playing game Neon District will be launching on Ethereum layer-two scaling solution Matic, according to a recent announcement. Neon District developer, Blockade Games will also move several…
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