The University of New South Wales' consumer loyalty research effort will pay students in ether for making purchases at on-campus retailers.
Former Fed chairman Ben Bernanke said blockchain technology has the opportunity to innovate in payments during Ripple's Swell conference.
DLT startup Ripple is one of several firms to contribute to a new payments services app from the Gates Foundation.
IBM has been settling real cross-border payments in the South Pacific on a blockchain using Stellar's Lumen cryptocurrency.
Japanese IT giant Fujitsu and three major banks have announced plans to pilot a peer-to-peer money transfer system built with blockchain technology.
Ripple has added nine new members to cross-border payment solution RippleNet, bringing the number of clients over 100.
Should bitcoin's technology change to accommodate merchant users? New data from one of the network's biggest startups is fueling the debate.
The minister for the Monetary Authority of Singapore has said the institution is working to create a regulatory framework for cryptocurrency payments.
Switzerland's Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts has announced that it will accept bitcoin as payment for student expenses.
Blockchain startup Circle has revealed a new inter-wallet settlement system called CENTRE, aimed at connecting the world's digital payment services.
A conference in Dublin yesterday united representatives of major financial firms and regulators in discussions over blockchain's way forward.
The controversial founder of Defense Distributed, a manufacturer of 3D gun printers, has said his company is flourishing, in part due to bitcoin.
Barbados-based payments startup Bitt has hired Rawdon Adams, the son of an ex-prime minister, as its new CEO.
Japanese telecom giant KDDI has become the latest major corporation to join the ranks of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance.
A former Russian central banker has spun a blockchain startup out of a traditional payments firm, focusing on helping merchants mint cryptocurrency.