Enterprise Blockchain

ConsenSys

Staying Alive: Why the World of Enterprise Blockchain Has Turned to Collaborations

Enterprise blockchain isn’t dead, but survival has meant more collaboration and some smart pivots. A dispatch from this week’s Consensus: Distributed.

Business  ·  14 May 2020
Ethereum

R3 Corda Partners With Kaleido After Ethereum Startup Spins Out of ConsenSys

R3, the company behind the Corda blockchain, is edging ever closer to Ethereum, with news of a partnership with enterprise software startup Kaleido.

Business  ·  12 May 2020
Enterprise Blockchain

IBM Teams With 3 European Power Grids to Build Green Energy Blockchain Platform

IBM has created a new blockchain consortium with power grid operators TenneT, Swissgrid and Terna to help facilitate the transition to renewable energy.

Business  ·  5 May 2020
Hacking

Enterprise Blockchains: Walled Off Yet Vulnerable

Private enterprise blockchains are prone to insider attacks and don’t benefit from constant testing by an open community, experts at Kaspersky and EY say.

Tech  ·  3 May 2020
Enterprise Blockchain

Ex-State Street Blockchain Team Drops DLT From New Data-Privacy Startup

Data privacy startup Manetu goes live early next month with $3.5 million in backing from Castle Island Ventures and others.

Business  ·  31 March 2020
Enterprise Blockchain

Luxury Watchmaker Breitling Adds Its First Timepieces to a Blockchain

In a rare example of real-world business deployment, Breitling is registering watches on a blockchain to track their provenance from owner to owner.

Business  ·  29 March 2020
Enterprise Blockchain

Old Rivals Oracle and IBM Want Their Blockchains to Talk to Each Other

IBM and Oracle are working on an interoperability project that could unite the business consortia on the companies' respective blockchain platforms.

Business  ·  9 March 2020
Ethereum

Microsoft, EY and ConsenSys Tout New Way for Big Biz to Use Public Ethereum

A trio of heavy hitters has come up with a new way of using the Ethereum mainnet to connect firms’ internal systems for resource planning.

Business  ·  4 March 2020
Enterprise Blockchain

Hyperledger Conference Shows Where Blockchain Can Fight Global Warming

Social impact took center stage at this year's Hyperledger Global Forum, with perhaps less of an emphasis on banking consortia and trade finance blockchains.

Business  ·  4 March 2020
Enterprise Blockchain

Russia’s Power Grid Company Tests Blockchain for Power Meter Data

Russia’s national power grid company Rosseti is testing a system for electricity bill payments based on a distributed ledger by Waves.

Business  ·  10 December 2019
Enterprise Blockchain

Visa R&D Arm Develops a Blockchain System That Could Replace Financial Data Aggregators

Visa has been quietly developing a blockchain system that could upend how banks transfer data to consumer financial apps like Mint and Credit Karma.

Business  ·  18 November 2019
Enterprise Blockchain

Microsoft, Salesforce Join Hyperledger Enterprise Blockchain Consortium

Microsoft and Salesforce have joined Hyperledger, lending their enterprise software heft to the DLT consortium.

Policy & regulation  ·  18 June 2019
Enterprise Blockchain

Amazon’s Arrival and 4 Other Enterprise Blockchain Trends From Consensus 2019

At Consensus 2019, conversations about enterprise blockchain were shaped by these five storylines.

Markets  ·  16 May 2019
Enterprise Blockchain

Tobacco Giant Philip Morris Is Building a Different Kind of ‘Public’ Blockchain

Tobacco giant Philip Morris is working on a "public blockchain," an executive said, though not quite in the commonly understood sense.

Markets  ·  25 April 2019
Enterprise Blockchain

Auditor EY Unveils Nightfall, An Ambitious Bid to Bring Business to Ethereum

Big Four auditor EY is rolling out free software designed to help companies use the public ethereum blockchain.

Markets  ·  16 April 2019