Blockchain

Australia-based ChronoBank has connections to a number or recruitment firms.

Monetary Authority of Singapore, Singapore Exchange and eight major banks are involved in the project.

Bitnation's Smart Love will feature among the projects on the EtherCamp hackathon starting 17 November.

Two industry leaders are partnering to make buying digital cash easier and less expensive.

The platform is currently being piloted by an international banking group and a central bank, and being assessed by an airline.

Melonport is working with Parity and Wood's Polkadot multi-chain network.

John McAfee told IBTimes UK the operation will expand further in 2017.

In 2014, Tezos proposed a blockchain offering a voting procedure for stakeholders to approve amendments.

BBVA, CIBC, ING, Intesa Sanpaolo, Natixis, Nordea, Northern Trust, Société Générale, UBS and US Bank worked on the KYC system.

National Settlement Depository is working with iCoinSoft as part of the blockchain-focused fintech programme.

Blockchain will 'change the culture of the world', says renowned cyber expert

Coloured coins specialist Colu has been part of local digital currency experiments in Barbados, Brazil and Israel.

The R3 Asia Lab will host a dedicated research and development centre as well as a physical Centre of Excellence.

Blockchain remittance specialist Epiphyte is testing its technology in the FCA's sandbox.

Unocoin, the largest Bitcoin trading platform in India, recently raised $1.5m and partnered with Blockstream.

Rootstock has also officially unveiled its smart contracts based platform at laBITconf, Argentina.

Richard Crook, head of Innovation Engineering at RBS talks about a cross border payment system using distributed ledger technology.

Regulators are 'acutely aware' of the need to monitor for financial innovation.

Srinivasan Sriram, CEO of Skuchain, begins a series of interviews about his vision for the future of supply chains.

Developers allow users to purchase titles and in-game items and earn money using cryptocurrency.

Tendermint founder Jae Kwon and CTO Ethan Buchman recently launched Cosmos, a hub to connect blockchains.

Before founding Bloq, Garzik was a Bitcoin core developer, and spent more than 10 years at Linux market leader, Red Hat.

Bitcoin evangelist Roger Ver points out that Ethereum's contentious hard fork was no disaster - far from it.

Volumes on the three major exchanges: Huobi, OKCoin and BTCC have reached about 7m BTC in a 24 hour period.

'Consumer preferences for financial products and services are changing rapidly,' says the OCC.

The Blockchain Insurance Summit will take place in Chicago, Illinois, on 8 November, 2016.

Security of the blockchain remains a major concern, Accenture reveals.

Synereo announced a grant project inviting developers to build decentralised applications for its platform.

Zeek allows Bitcoin users to shop with John Lewis, Debenhams, Sainsbury's and Morrisons.

The integration is scheduled to come into effect a few days after the Zcash genesis block is mined (28 October).