Blockchain Technology

CoinFlash

Blockchain Gets First Mention in China’s 5-Year Policy Plan

China’s 14th five-year plan outlines the country’s economic priorities and stressed that technology will play an increasingly important large role.

News  ·  12 March 2021
CoinFlash

NY Gov. Announces Pilot Project Using IBM’s Blockchain-Based COVID-19 App

The health app built with IBM has been named the Excelsior Pass and will be tested in New York City.

News  ·  3 March 2021
CoinFlash

Singapore Uses Blockchain for Verification of COVID-19 Test Results

The city state's Government Technology Agency (GovTech) and Ministry of Health (MOH) have developed a set of open-source digital standards used to issue COVID-19 test results, known as HealthCerts.

News  ·  26 February 2021
Blockchain

State of Wyoming Introduces Bill for Blockchain Filing System

Under the act, the state would implement a new filing system to "use blockchain technology as the the technological framework for the system," by the end of 2021.

News  ·  25 February 2021
CoinFlash

India’s Largest Bank Joins JPMorgan’s Blockchain Payments Network

Liink, JPMorgan’s blockchain banking network, is based on a fork of Ethereum.

Business  ·  23 February 2021
Exchanges

Crypto.com to Burn 70B CRO Tokens Ahead of Full Blockchain Launch Next Month

"The largest token burn in history" will start Monday, the firm said.

Tech  ·  22 February 2021
Australia

IBM, Top Australian Banks Execute Country’s First Blockchain Bank Guarantee

By digitizing the normally paper process, the Lygos joint venture says it's shown it can speed up bank guarantee issuances.

Business  ·  10 February 2021
Opinion

4 Ways Blockchain Could Catapult Into the Mainstream

Blockchain technology adoption has largely been a top-down story. Here are some ideas that could get more bottom-up traction.

Business  ·  26 January 2021
Blockchain Technology

Overstock Turns Medici Ventures Into a Fund to Reap Value of Blockchain Assets

“We remain bullish on blockchain technology but are changing the way we interact with these asset," said CEO Jonathan Johnson.

Business  ·  26 January 2021
Bitcoin

What Is the Bitcoin White Paper?

A technical manifesto, the Bitcoin white paper was released in 2008 under an MIT public license for all to learn from, share and enjoy.

Tech  ·  21 January 2021
CoinFlash

Microsoft, India’s Tanla Launch Encrypted Messaging Infrastructure Built With Blockchain

The edge-to-edge encrypted platform is built on Microsoft Azure and accessible by clients via an API.

Business  ·  21 January 2021
CoinFlash

BMW, Ford Help Advance Standard for ‘Tamper-Proof’ Blockchain Identities for Vehicles

A new standard developed in a MOBI working group is aimed at tackling used car fraud with verified car histories.

Tech  ·  20 January 2021
CoinFlash

Russian Metals Firm Norilsk Nickel Backs IBM’s Responsible Sourcing Blockchain Pact

The technology is aimed at tracing commodity flows in near real-time.

News  ·  16 January 2021
CoinFlash

US Navy Commissions $1.5M Blockchain System for Tracking Critical Weaponry

Blockchain firm SIMBA Chain won a contract to build a system to anticipate demand for "critical" military weaponry parts.

Tech  ·  13 January 2021
Funding Rounds

Biconomy Raises $1.5M in Seed Funding for Bid to Simplify Blockchain Transactions

Biconomy aims to enable blockchain developers to provide a simplified onboarding and transaction experience for users of Web 3.0 and blockchain projects.

News  ·  11 January 2021