MediLedger, Chronicled and blockchain
The MediLedger Project aims to demonstrate compliance with the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA). It utilises blockchain technology to track and trace prescription medicines. The project also seeks to demonstrate...
A digression: what is the ILP or Interledger Protocol?
The Interledger Protocol sounds unglamourous. Sometimes referred to as the ILP, an undated paper by two Ripple employees, Stefan Thomas and Evan Schwarz, proposed it. The ILP has moved beyond Ripple and...
VeChain to provide blockchain protocol of APAC Provenance Council
VeChain is to become the sole public blockchain protocol of the APAC Provenance Council. The latter is a cross-continental food supply chain and finance consortium established to integrate blockchain technology into...
Banco Santander to accelerate transformation with IBM blockchain
IBM and Banco Santander have inked a five-year global technology agreement valued at approximately $700M to enable Santander Group to accelerate and deepen its business transformation. The agreement - while providing...
Cynopsis Solutions launches ICO via Traceto.io
Cynopsis Solutions has launched its own Initial Currency Offer (ICO) via its subsidiary Traceto.io. What makes this different from most ICO announcements is the experience that Cynopsis already has in this...
Ethereum global blockchain ecosystem emerges
Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) clears a path to an Ethereum global blockchain ecosystem.
With the EEA's release of the Enterprise Ethereum Client Specification 1.0, organizations and global development communities now have a...
Batavia: yet another trade finance blockchain platform… (duh)
Bank of Montreal, CaixaBank, Commerzbank and Erste Group have joined Batavia. Batavia derives from an initiative launched by UBS and IBM in 2016 to build a new global trade platform based...
TradeLens blockchain shipping solution attracts >90 participants
A.P. Moller – Maersk (Maersk) and IBM have announced the creation of TradeLens, a joint development by the two companies. This applies blockchain to global supply chains. Perhaps most significantly, TradeLens...
Constellation claims to be 1000x faster than Bitcoin or Ethereum
Constellation has announced its emergence from stealth mode with a horizontally scalable protocol that it claims is at least 1000x faster than Bitcoin or Ethereum.
In addition, the Proof-of-Meme model claims to...
Santander One Pay FX, a blockchain-based international money transfer service
Banco Santander has launched a new service, Santander One Pay FX. This makes it possible for customers to complete international transfers on the same day (in many cases) or by the...