Blockchain

Goldmoney announcement follows the recent Royal Mint/CME tie-up.

Factom Federation includes several protocol changes and a networking change allowing further upgrades.

Thomas Birr and Carsten Stöcker of innogy SE look at how transportation will meet blockchain transactions.

Coder and blogger Ben Dickson examines the irrepressible world of initial coin offerings.

IBTimes speaks to Dr Lee Braine from Barclays Investment Bank about its new smart contracts research paper.

Central bank settlement coins, blockchain governance and interoperability, plus the big data business.

SWIFT's global payments innovation (gpi) will go live early next year.

Back in July this year FXCH stated its intention by settling the first FX trade on a blockchain.

IBM names bunch of startups and announced the 1st Hyperledger Fabric v1.0 Connect-a-Thon on 17 December.

Complete ecosystem consists of global professional services and 3D printing companies, and will become a reality in 2017.

The central bank analysed challenges to the 'development and adoption' of blockchain.

Other partners are Coins.ph​ in the Philippines, Flutterwave which connects with M-Pesa, and Tempo Money Transfer.

Lisk uses delegated proof of stake and introduces a new sidechain for every app built on the platform.

Dr Yin was one of three researchers who broke SHA-1, the US Government hash standard.

The release comes after a number of major institutions left the R3 consortium.

The partnership will focus on public policy, intellectual property issues and technical interoperability.

Manifold was founded in 2014 by former White House cybersecurity advisor Chris Finan.

Counterparties will be able to see all trade tickets on distributed ledger so they can be sure they are matching against the correct trade.

The blockchain-based Royal Mint Gold (RMG) will to be available in 2017.

BrickVest study found 56% of investors think the real estate industry will adopt blockchain for property transactions.

Bitcoin has surged in popularity with the government's decision to demonetize 500 and 1,000 rupee notes.

A number of interesting projects exploring crypto-economic governance models will soon come online.

Deloitte joins the German Energy company Innogy and WanXiang Blockchain Labs.

Over 70 fee-paying financial institutions are now involved in the US-based R3.

dLoc combines Smart Cosmos IoT platform, and its near-field communication (NFC) transponders with the blockchain.

The financial giant was a founding member of the blockchain research venture.

IBTimes speaks to Todd McDonald from R3, Dr Lee Braine from Barclays, and Sean Murphy from Norton Rose Fulbright.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funding is set to fill an urgent need in developing nations.

The CryptoSeal tamper-evident adhesive seal strips will work well for pharmaceutical tracking.

Cecilia Skingsley, deputy governor of Riksbank says: 'We cannot wait any longer.'