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ConsenSys, Synechron and BlockApps collaborate on financial services blockchain applications
ConsenSys and BlockApps will gain access to Synechron's 6,000-person global team of specialised financial services consultants.
Capital One focuses on treasury management and healthcare with blockchain builder Gem
It is also partnered with healthcare API provider Pokitdok, invoicing app Viewpost and analytics provider ClearGraph.
Synchrony Financial joins R3 distributed ledger consortium
Synchrony Financial is the first credit card company to join R3's consortium of more than 70 large financial institutions.
Bitcoin price surges past $650 on back of Chinese mining conference
Many believe price is driven by Chinese speculators and investors returning to Bitcoin following the recent yuan devaluation.
The Ripple effect – blockchain start-up aiming to usher in new era of global payments
'We are trying to show the market that blockchain can become real', says managing director Daniel Aranda.
R3 trials cross-border payments with Ripple's XRP
R3 said liquidity efficiencies and nostro consolidations can save banks up to 60% in payment processing costs with Ripple.
Slock.it and innogy SE win 2016 German Mobility Award for P2P vehicle sharing project
The German Mobility Award is an exclusive, national recognition awarded to only ten projects out of 450 applications.
MIRACL delivering distributed trust and 'Zero-Factor Authentication'
Japan's NTT Software has just adopted MIRACL's Zero-Factor Authentication platform.
Blockchain project wins Dutch international energy hackathon
Hackenergy 2016 was sponsored by ENGIE Nederland and Groningen's IBM Client Innovation Center (CIC).
John McAfee set to keynote London tech conference to preach merits of blockchain
McAfee has long been a supporter of virtual currency – if not always Bitcoin
Fujitsu using blockchain to develop tech-savvy method of handling confidential data
The joint Japan-US project is expected to become a commercial reality by 2017.
Blockchain and smart contracts firm Symbiont releases enterprise-ready ledger
Assembly was created as a standalone system with a simple API, rather than a feature of a larger software monolith.
Axoni delivers blockchain equity swaps with Barclays, Citi, Credit Suisse and JP Morgan
The smart contracts for equity swaps project also featured Thomson Reuters, IHS Markit and Capco.
Blockchain real estate platform Ubitquity partners with Priority Title & Escrow
Ubitquity simplifies the process of tracking and recording property to enable a long-term chain of custody of title.
Russian government testing how blockchain can revolutionise document exchanges
The Federal Anti-Monopoly Service has teamed up with Sberbank.
Night of the Living DAO: Token sale breathes life into Ethereum Classic
The appetite for token sales certainly isn't waning, but not everyone is enthusiastic.
NXT's Ardor token distribution uses 'snapshot' of existing value in the network
Bas Wisselink and Dave Pearce of NXT Foundation protected value in the network rather than diluting it with an ICO.
Blockchain-based IoT project does drone deliveries using Ethereum
San Francisco-based Chronicled used Ethereum to authenticate drone package delivery system.
Over 8 million Bitcoin wallets left inaccessible as Blockchain.info hit with DNS hijack
Blockchain.info powers up to 100,000 Bitcoin transactions every day.
Juan Benet of IPFS talks about Filecoin
IPFS is ready to add a blockchain-based currency layer called Filecoin to incentivise data storage on the network.
BitShares Munich chief fixes cryptocurrency volatility with smart contracts
Idea behind Smartcoins developed by Daniel Larimer, co-founder of Bitshares and Steem blockchains.
Deloitte likes blockchain for loyalty rewards programmes
The report is one in a series on blockchain use cases produced by Deloitte Center for Financial Services.
The case for more permissive relicensing of Ethereum
Proposal to move C++ Ethereum client runtime from the copyleft GPLv3 licence to the more permissive Apache 2.0 licence.
Shipping giant Maersk tests blockchain-powered bill of lading
Maersk took part in a proof of concept, with blockchain expertise from the IT University of Copenhagen.
EY and Paxos collaborate on gold bullion blockchain
Big Four firm EY to support rollout of first blockchain use case to settle gold in London bullion market.
Blockchain plus 3D printing equals 'smart manufacturing' and Ethereum you can touch
Genesis of Things was established and launched just a few weeks before DevCon2 in Shanghai.
EtherCamp announces crowdsale for Hacker Gold Token
Developer of Ethereum-based platform will host a nine-week sale starting November 17.
Avoiding patent wars and reducing IP risk in the blockchain ecosystem
Marc Kaufman, partner at Reed Smith, presented at the EUIPO Blockchain IP Workshop.
Channel 4's All 4 Games partners with blockchain sensation Spells of Genesis
EverdreamSoft and Channel 4 video game publisher to bring blockchain-based mobile trading card game to broader audience.
Blockchain heavyweights meet in Brussels for intellectual property workshop
Blockchain experts met to look at how it can protect and enforce intellectual property.