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Blockchain, big data and the value of global trade
Blockchain and data science experts talk about the hidden value of distributed ledger technology.
Solidum Partners completes first catastrophe bond on a blockchain
$148m of notes were settled using the ILSBlockchain.
Eleven banks develop trade finance app on R3's Corda DLT platform
App built following twelve months of development and testing, holds potential to improve trade flows, particularly for SMEs in developing economies.
Hard forks and contract hacks – Tezos aims to solve blockchain's problems
Tezos is a smart contract blockchain platform that recently raised $232m.
Could there be a national cryptocurrency? The 21st century gold standard
Luis Cuende is co-founder and project lead of Aragon, co-founder of Stampery and creator of world's first Linux distro with facelogin.
MultiChain 1.0 released: Gideon Greenspan muses on blockchain privacy and smart contract languages
MultiChain's partner programme includes the likes of Accenture, Cognizant and Medici Ventures.
Canada's ETHWaterloo to be world's largest Ethereum hackathon
Ethereum chief scientist Vitalik Buterin dropped out of University of Waterloo, Ontario.
Solar power can make you rich: Users could sell electricity to neighbours using blockchain
LO3 Energy wants to enable people to make peer-to-peer energy transactions with other users across the grid.
Alex Tapscott launches digital asset investment firm NextBlock Global with $20m financing
NextBlock Global will immediately give investors diversified exposure to the most promising investments.
R3's Richard Brown: IBM should adopt Corda
Richard Gendal Brown, chief technology officer at R3, was previously executive architect for banking and financial markets at IBM.
Accord Project joins Hyperledger to push standards for smart contracts
Hyperledger welcomed 10 new members in total.
There is no 'but it's blockchain' exemption in US Securities law
Stephen D. Palley, a lawyer in the Washington D.C. office of Anderson Kill, talks about token sales.
IOTA Foundation partners with Imperial College London to drive Tangle DLT
Imperial will help build IOTA protocol enhancements, PoCs and data visualisation of the IOTA 'Tangle'.
London Stock Exchange and IBM to pilot blockchain for European SMEs
Platform being built and tested by LSE subsidiary Borsa Italiana on Hyperledger Fabric version 1.0
Bitfury launches Exonum, securely anchored to the Bitcoin blockchain
Bitfury is embarking on an international roadshow to showcase Exonum to the global IT community.
Meet bextmachine - using blockchain, IoT and AI to make coffee supply fair and transparent
Parent company bext360 unveiled bextmachine at TechCrunch's Sessions: Robotics at MIT in Boston on 17 July.
IBM mainframe revamped for the super-encrypted blockchain era
IBM Z protects cloud services, applications and data bases in one click.
Warning: Bitcoin network disruption imminent as cryptocurrency splits
Bitcoin users are warned to stop accepting payments at least a day before 1 August to prevent losses.
Tata Technologies CEO: IoT, 3D printing and machine learning are helping manufacturing come home
Tata Technologies boss Warren Harris said things that were previously proof of concept initiatives are now attracting the right sort of investment.
R3 collaborates with Intel for added privacy and security on Corda
Collaboration was announced at the Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor launch event in New York.
Hyperledger releases production-ready blockchain - Fabric 1.0
Hyperledger Fabric offers a modular architecture allowing components, such as consensus and membership services, to be plug-and-play.
Crypto exchange KyberNetwork promises decentralised execution and instant trades
KyberNetwork also provides payment APIs that allow Ethereum accounts to receive payments from any crypto tokens.
'Fairtrade for the blockchain age': Provenance raises $800K ahead of commercial launch
Funding has been secured from Humanity United, a foundation that is part of the Omidyar Group.
TigerRisk joins R3 and ACORD's insurance industry Centre of Excellence for DLT/blockchain
R3 has a number of insurance and reinsurance providers as members, inlcuding MetLife, AIA and Suncorp Group.
Hedge fund Numerai's unique AI crowdsourcing token and the crazy world of crypto-economics
Numerai chose not to ICO, but that didn't stop speculation on NMR tokens.
Bitcoin user loses $215,000 by mistake due to transaction fee error
BTC.com appealing for the user who paid an exorbitant transaction fee to come forward and claim their money.
MIT Enigma's Catalyst to be the Quantopian of crypto-assets
Co-founder Guy Zyskind said once the community starts curating data and sharing it, the sky's the limit.
SWIFT adds 22 global banks to its cross-border blockchain project
The blockchain proof of concept is part of the SWIFT gpi service for cross-border payments.
Hackers steal 'billions' from huge South Korean ethereum and bitcoin exchange
Bithumb hacked: Exchange claims employee's PC exposed personal customer records.
Di Iorio and Shrem to offer token rating service and Jaxx Unity reward coin
Anthony Di Iorio guaranteed that distribution of the Jaxx Unity Coin will not involve buying anything for an investment.