Might the Federal Reserve bless blockchains?
The US Federal Reserve Bank (the Fed), in a new research paper , almost blesses blockchain. This is a significant development, though not yet one cast in stone.
The paper is: "Strategies...
Rivetz adds Sentinel Protocol’s threat intelligence platform
Rivetz, an embedded, decentralised cybersecurity vendor, and Sentinel Protocol (Sentinel), a crowdsourced threat intelligence platform built on blockchain technology, have announced a partnership. This will incorporate the Sentinel Protocol threat intelligence...
SAP Ariba Spot Buy adds GRMS to enhance vetting
With its announcement of a link with GRMS (Global Risk Management Solutions), SAP Ariba seeks to move trust to new levels.
GRMS enhances the vetting capabilities within SAP Ariba Spot Buy. It...
Transmute launches blockchain decentralised app engine
Transmute has launched an initiative to bring the power of distributed ledger technology (DLT) to the enterprise.
Along with the launch, Transmute also announced it has received $1M in pre-seed funding.
“The rise...
Integrating digital IDs via blockchains
A digital identity service that makes blockchains safe for a broad range of business and personal use cases and meets national and international legal standards? Sounds too good to be true?...
Australian CSIRO reports on blockchain
The Australian research organisation, CSIRO - via Data61, has produced two reports on blockchain technology. These examine the risks and opportunities of this technology for Australia.
The first report, ‘Distributed Ledgers: Scenarios...
TradeIX and R3 pilot Marco Polo for trade finance
BNP, Commerzbank and ING are leading a trade finance initiative, called Marco Polo which also involves trade finance technology specialist TradeIX and enterprise software firm R3.
They are piloting this trade finance solution leveraging...
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Cloud-based blockchain for enterprises
Cloud-based blockchain technology to secure, share and track data across decentralised infrastructures within enterprises sounds magical. Gospel Technology claims to have this with the launch of Gospel Cloud Version 1, based...
Caplinked launches TransitNet
CapLinked, an enterprise software company specializing in secure information sharing, has announced TransitNet. The latter is an open and unified blockchain framework for protecting digital assets and permanently recording data access...
Blockchain – transparently opaque?
Bitcoin valuations have made many recent headlines. The attractions of anything which increases in value by 40%+ in weeks is understandable.
Yet there are problems. Some of these involve Bitcoin (which ET...
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FDA program to evaluate blockchain to protect pharmaceutical integrity
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Accord Project to develop open source framework for smart legal contracts
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Industry wants 5G, but barriers remain according to Capgemini report
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Solve.Care launches blockchain network for diabetes patients
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ARK Deployer : create a blockchain in simple steps
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TRON plans blockchain addition to BitTorrent File System Protocol
TRON, a blockchain platform, has announced its plan to incorporate decentralised storage (as another blockchain solution) into the BitTorrent ecosystem. This represents another step...
