Tagged: blockchain

July 31, 2019 @ 2:40 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

German blockchain banking group Bitwala announced on Wednesday it secured €13 million through its Series A funding round, which was led by Sony Financial Ventures and NKB Group. As previously reported, Bitwala’s mission is to empower people to exchange ideas. The company recently secured €4… Read More

July 31, 2019 @ 8:46 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Hyperledger, an open-source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies, announced on Wednesday it has welcomed 11 new members to its enterprise blockchain community. Hyperledger reported that the announcement comes as its members from around the globe are meeting in Tokyo, Japan, at the… Read More

July 23, 2019 @ 3:54 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Blockchain tech startup Blockmason announced on Tuesday it has teamed up with CryptoChicks, an international education hub that is on a mission to grow the professional potential of women and youth in blockchain and AI, to advance the blockchain-based software development industry. The duo signed a… Read More

July 23, 2019 @ 2:43 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Civic Technologies, the premier blockchain-powered identity and payment solution provider, announced on Tuesday it has collaborated with BitGo to launch the Civic Wallet in beta, the first consumer digital wallet built on top of BitGo’s multisig technology, which will be released in the fourth quarter. According… Read More

July 22, 2019 @ 8:34 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

OneConnect Financial Technology Co. Ltd. (OneConnect), an associate company of China’s insurance giant Ping An Group, announced on Monday it has formed a new partnership with UnionBank’s fintech subsidiary UBX to co-create a blockchain-enable platform for MSMEs in the Philippines. According to the duo, this new partnership… Read More

July 11, 2019 @ 7:56 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

KoreConX announced on Wednesday the addition of DigiMax as an ecosystem KorePartner. DigiMax is publicly listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange through its parent company, DigiCrypts Blockchain Solutions. According to KoreConX, DigiMax Capital provides corporate advisory services to clients seeking to grow their businesses by… Read More

July 9, 2019 @ 10:43 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Overstock subsidiary (NASDAQ: OSTK) tZERO announced on Tuesday it was teaming up with producers of Atari: Fistful of Quarters to tokenize the upcoming motion picture. tZERO claims that this will be the first time the film industry to use blockchain technology, which marks a milestone… Read More

July 3, 2019 @ 4:45 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

ANZ, Commonwealth Bank, IBM (NYSE: IBM), Scentre Group and Westpac announced on Tuesday they have jointly launched a live pilot for Lygon, which is described as a new digital platform using blockchain technology to transform the way businesses obtain and manage bank guarantees that are often required… Read More

July 2, 2019 @ 1:51 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Swiss multinational food and drink company Nestlé announced on Tuesday the launch of its new blockchain pilot platform, which allows consumers to track their food right back to the farm. Nestlé claims to be the first major food and beverage company to announce it will… Read More

July 1, 2019 @ 3:35 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Aon plc, a UK-based global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions, announced on Monday it has partnered with Oxfam in Sri Lanka, the organization working to alleviate poverty; and Etherisc, the insurtech startup developing a protocol for decentralized insurance… Read More

June 18, 2019 @ 3:06 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ripple, a provider of enterprise blockchain solutions for payments, announced it has formed a new strategic partnership with money transfer service, MoneyGram. Ripple has also taken a $50 million stake in MoneyGram in a push to deploy XRP. Ripple reported that through the new collaboration,… Read More

June 18, 2019 @ 2:26 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

IBM announced on Tuesday the launch of its enterprise blockchain platform’s latest version. IBM reported that its vision is a fully-flexible blockchain platform, built around a well-managed open source distributed ledger technology, that can truly run in virtually any computing infrastructure. It was revealed: “Clients… Read More

June 17, 2019 @ 10:42 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Symbiont, a smart contracts platform for institutional applications of distributed ledger technology, announced on Monday it has opened its new international headquarters in Amsterdam. This news comes less than six months after the company secured $20 million through its Series B funding round, which was… Read More

June 13, 2019 @ 9:58 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

 Spring Labs, the company developing a blockchain-based platform designed to transform how information and data are shared globally, announced last week it raised $23 million through its Series A funding round, which was led by GreatPoint Ventures with participation from existing investors, including August Capital,… Read More

June 7, 2019 @ 12:35 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

American technology company Kodak has reportedly launched its own blockchain-enable document management platform. According to Coindesk, the Kodak document management platform, which is known as Kodak Services for Business, is not under license to a third-party and actually is a Kodak product.  Kodak Services for… Read More

June 2, 2019 @ 10:19 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Block.one, the creator of the EOSIO (EOS) blockchain protocol, announced on Saturday the launch of its new blockchain-based social media application, Voice, which is designed with users of the platform in mind. According to Block.one, Voice is a more “transparent social media platform” for the… Read More

May 21, 2019 @ 10:55 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Hong Kong-based AI company SingularityNET announced on Monday the launch of its new SingularityNet X-Lab Blockchain AI accelerator program. According to SingularityNet, the program aims to foster and support promising entrepreneurial teams specializing in the development and application of cutting-edge technologies at the intersection of… Read More

May 17, 2019 @ 11:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Social media giant Facebook has reportedly set up a new fintech company that focuses on blockchain in Switzerland. According to Business Insider, the new fintech, named Libra Networks, with Facebook Global Holdings was named a stakeholder, was notably registered on May 2nd and aims to… Read More

May 16, 2019 @ 8:55 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Blockchain Association of Africa (BAA), a South Africa based non-profit pan-African organization, announced on Thursday it has formed a strategic partnership with Afriplains Digital, Tanzania (AFD) & Blockchain Worx, Singapore (BCW) to use synergies and further its efforts to equip the community and stakeholders in Africa with hands-on Blockchain education, acumen… Read More

May 15, 2019 @ 4:37 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Blockstream, a Canada-based blockchain technology and financial cryptography company, announced on Wednesday the launch of its new Liquid Securities Platform, which is described as a bitcoin sidechain that supports the creation of new digital assets in addition to the ability to peg-in bitcoin to the… Read More