BLOCKCHAIN

The Rare Digital Art Festival, which took place in New York City last week, was packed to the rafters.

Republic Protocol is building a decentralized open-source dark pool protocol for the trading of cryptocurrency pairs across the Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains.

Cryptocurrency platform joins forces with trusted identity verification expert to comply with KYC regulations.

KODAKCoin will be the first third-party security token to launch on tZERO.

Logistics joint venture plans industry advisory body so suite of products it creates meets the needs of all participants.

SWIFT and central securities depositories join forces to demonstrate the value of standards in DLT for securities markets, such as proxy voting and digital assets.

Bitmark is working with investment group KKFarm and CTBC, the Chinese bank.

Everledger has partnered with renowned gemmological laboratory Gübelin Gem Lab, creator of the Provenance Proof initiative.

Jon Duschinsky, Senior Advisor, Giftcoin, looks at the emerging world of 'cryptophilanthropy'.

Ram Komarraju, Head of Innovation and Technology Delivery at CLS, talks about bridging the gap between legacy systems and blockchain.

Founder Dominic Williams says it's not just about creating decentralised systems, but also to knock 80% off the cost of developing and maintaining traditional business IT.

The internet's original vision was to create a decentralized and neutral platform that gave everyone equal access to services, content, and publishing tools.

Digital payments, smart contracts, and data-backed task automation technologies are driving Germany's energy transformation.

Byrne is a blockchain evangelist extraordinaire and De Soto is one of the most influential economists of all time.

Monetary Circuit Theory says money is created by commercial banking system in the form of credit while central banks act as mere system stabilisers and liquidity providers.

Blockchain Food Safety Alliance between three multinationals and major Chinese university will enhance food tracking, traceability and safety in China.

AI and data sharing, green crypto mining, magical blockchains and a new 'World Computer'.

Collaboration unveiled at the One Planet Summit by the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) will harness blockchain to transform supply chains.

Barclays, Credit Suisse, KBC, SIX, Thomson Reuters and UBS collaborate using Microsoft Azure for MiFID II data reconciliation project using Ethereum smart contracts.

The report, 'Distributed Ledger Technologies for Public Good: leadership, collaboration and innovation' was released this week by Lord Holmes of Richmond.

Global media agency Mindshare partners with Singpore's high speed blockchain Zilliqa to test media applications

Infosys Finacle launched a pilot trade finance network with 11 banks to trial the Finacle Trade Connect solution.

Digix raised $1.25m in its seed round led by Japanese VC Global Brain, and joined by Fenbushi Capital, Asia's most active blockchain-focused venture capital fund.

Joel John, lead researcher for Blockchain-focused VC firm Outlier Ventures, looks at the history of blockchain's promise of financial inclusion.

The private placements of C$15.3 million (£9m) will see Interbit go live in early 2018.

Former CEO of T. Rowe Price Global Investment Services joins the decentralised asset management technology developer as an advisor and member of Melon Foundation.

It's significant that Ethereum design studio, ConsenSys, has chosen London to host its 'European Hub'.

Enables seamless integration of SQL Database and in the future other services such as Azure Active Directory, Key Vault, and Express Route.

The London hub in Shoreditch has space for 60 ConsenSys members and sponsored projects.