Russia's largest retail bank is launching a Hyperledger-powered blockchain for trade finance initially, and may add a ruble-linked stablecoin next year
IBM has become a shareholder in we.trade, the blockchain-based trade-finance platform jointly owned by 12 European banks.
IBM is implementing the Hyperledger Fabric 2.0 base layer to support smart contract governance on its blockchain platform.
State Street Bank has cut over 100 blockchain developer jobs as part of a pivot from transforming its plumbing with DLT to supporting digital assets.
Forex giant CLS is now using a blockchain to handle certain currency trades, but the technology is “not essential” for the task, an executive admits.
A new software based on the Hyperledger Fabric blockchain was launched for commodities trading for the gas industry.
Blockchain will reduce the amount of discrepancies in booking data caused by hotel no-shows, overstays, and room modifications.
FINRA has approved iownit as a broker-dealer, clearing the firm to offer digital securities on a private Hyperledger blockchain.
Truffle is expanding to Hyperledger Fabric, Tezos and R3's Corda after clocking 3.5 million downloads from ethereum developers.
Moiz Kohari, State Street's global chief technology architect, has left to build a new data privacy startup.
Digital Asset is integrating its smart contract language into the Hyperledger Sawtooth enterprise blockchain platform.
Court clerks across France will soon be recording changes in companies' legal status on a Hyperledger blockchain built by IBM.
MonetaGo, which builds private blockchains for banks, has switched platforms from Hyperledger Fabric to R3 Corda.
The software giant now has up to a dozen enterprise customers using live blockchain applications.
A new blockchain project will track cobalt from a mine in Africa to a Ford Motor plant in the U.S.