FINTECH

Vitalik Buterin kicked off EDCON in Paris with a discussion of economic incentives within blockchains.

Joseph Lubin and Samuel Cassatt were presenting at the Fifty-Fifth Session of the Commission for Social Development.

The Ethereum hedge fund platform Melonport is breaking records in the world of initial coin offerings.

Feedzai CEO Nuno Sebastiao said: 'Being selected for the Tech Tour Growth 50 means that we are global-ready.'

CEO Tammer Kamel will be speaking at Newsweek's forthcoming Data Science and Capital Markets event next month.

Digix and Monolith to bring back Gold Standard on the Ethereum blockchain.

Anthony Duffy, director retail banking at Fujitsu, talks about fraud detection, ID verification and biometrics.

The pilot scheme in association with EY will use BTL's Interbit platform to cut the costs of energy trading.

Ardor allows users to create their own customised subsidiary blockchains secured by the main chain.

Icon's Tom Hay and Richard Dear explain how instant payments will drive the new API economy.

'Blockchain, Hyperconnectivity, and the City of the Future' whitepaper released at Dubai's World Government Summit.

Fintech boss explains how a nascent pathway in 2011 led to the world's largest online invoice finance platform.

Qtum is backed by OkCoin CEO Star Xu, Ethereum's Anthony Di Iorio, Augur's Jeremy Gardner and blockchain advocate Bo Shen.

Man AHL chief scientist Anthony Ledford is a speaker at Newsweek's forthcoming Data Science Capital Markets event.

Integration of blockchain technology with Thales Hardware Security Module addresses key distributed ledger risks for financial services, government, healthcare and other sectors.

The Winton Labs Demo Day will take place on 9 February in collaboration with The Alan Turing Institute.

IBM blockchain includes Dubai Customs, Dubai Trade and Santander to track the import and export of goods.

A Romanian coder establishes Bitnation domain following corruption protests.

Equibit Development Corporation opened its initial coin offering on February 1st.

McKinney created the Pandas project and has spent the last seven years working in the Python open source ecosystem.

IBTimes spoke to Sasha Ivanov during London Blockchain Week 2017.

The Chamber is also hosting annual DC Blockchain Summit with Georgetown University on March 15 & 16.

There was a definite flavour of altruism at last week's London Blockchain Week 2017.

Estonian MoD and Nato will shape how Nato range users will prep for current complex cyber-threat landscape.

Hazel Moore will be talking about fintech innovation at Newsweek's forthcoming Data Science and Capital Markets event in London.

Group includes BNY Mellon, Bosch, Cisco, Gemalto, and Foxconn, as well as a host of blockchain start-ups.

Lawyers discuss dual track regulation, equivalence and the potential to streamline the UK's financial regime.

Cornell's Emin Gün Sirer, Mihai Alisie of the AKASHA project and Steemit's Dan Larimer weigh up the options.

Hyperledger's Brian Behlendorf discusses abortive attempt to relicense the C++ Ethereum client to the Apache 2.0 licence.