Blockchain

Gemini, the cryptocurrency exchange founded and run by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, has expanded to the UK.

The two will explore the creation of "a next generation settlement service for the London gold market".

Factom given $199,000 to advance the security of digital identity for Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

Telia and Kairos Future are also part of the blockchain-based real estate transactions proof of concept.

Credits beat off stiff competition from runnersup Clearmatics, Everledger and Provenance.

IBTimes UK talks to Prof Eli Ben-Sasson of Technion, Israel Institute of Technology on the Zerocash project.

CEO Vytautas Karalevičius says cryptocurrency is a top option because of 'usage for actual payments'.

Smart contracts reduce the time and costs of managing catastrophe swaps and issuing insurance linked securities.

The Ethereum Foundation welcomes Microsoft as the Premiere Sponsor of Devcon2, Shanghai 19-21 September, 2016.

IBTimes talked to Samson Mow of Bitcoin conglomerate BTCC at the recent Consensus 2016 conference in NYC.

WAVES raised 29634 Bitcoin via the initial coin offering (ICO) website and 460 in NXT Asset Swaps.

The Federal Reserve, IMF and World Bank heard from the Chamber of Digital Commerce, Chain and Bloq.

Ethereum-based ConsenSys rallied support for its uPort identity system at ID2020 at the United Nations.

Siân Jones, of the European Digital Currency and Blockchain Technology Forum explains the recent MEP vote

The new application is currently being rolled out as a staff pilot for payments of between £10 and £10,000.

The course from B9Lab aims to train 1000 developers this year and five times that amount the following year.

IBTimes heard from Align Commerce, Azimo, WorldRemit and Blockchain Technology Limited (BTL).

BloqEnterrpise promises Turing-complete smart contracts plugged into Bitcoin, written in JavaScript and Python

Ping An joins the global network of R3 partners united in its lab environment, the R3 Lab and Research Centre,

IBTimes spoke to ObjectChain Collab MD Paul Ferris, who recently presented the idea at Consensus 2016 in NYC.

CEO Thorsten Peisl: 'Transparency, the great benefit of blockchain, is an obstacle for financial services in particular.'

Lisk, which raised $6.5m in a crowdsale, 'is an app store for peer-to-peer apps for a blockchain or its sidechains'.

Ukraine's Distributed Lab launched the eAuction platform in February with Oschadbank, PrivatBank and Microsoft.

Exclusive: IBTimes interviews David Rutter, the boss of banking technology consortium R3CEV.

SWIFT Institute conducted interview and focus groups with 75 technology and post-trade processing companies.

IBTimes spoke to Adam Ludwin, co-founder and CEO of Chain.com at Consensus 2016 conference in New York City.

Day at Consensus in NYC included how to avoid enterprise software hype cycles and banking collapses.

Deloitte also announced blockchain partnerships with Bloq, Stellar and BlockCypher.

Delaware Governor Jack Markell spoke about the blockchain initiative being built by Symbiont.

Using BTC Relay means developers can implement a 'Pay with Bitcoin' button in their Ethereum-based Dapps.