‘Sea to Table’ insights for sustainable seafood adopts IBM blockchain
Atea, Sjømatbedriftene (the Norwegian Seafood Association) and IBM are collaborating to use blockchain technology to share seafood supply chain data for Norway’s seafood industry. This cross-industry initiative aims to provide safer,...
Blockchain design at Banco Santander
John Whelan oversees blockchain design as Banco Santander's Blockchain Lab director. In effect he specializes in the application of blockchains, distributed ledger technologies (DLT) and smart contracts as they apply to...
Blockchain Catch-up Week 33 (to w/e 28th August)
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INATBA: does an EC-backed trade association unlock blockchain?
The European Commission (EC) has launched 'the International Association of Trusted Blockchain Applications', aka INATBA. This, according to the EC, will bring together industry, startups and SMEs, policy makers, international organisations,...
Blockchain nomenclature – what’s in a name?
You might think that 'blockchain nomenclature' is dry stuff, not worthy of a promised technological revolution. You would be wrong.
Such is the froth of the Bitcoin/ICO/crypto arena that some companies have...
Blockstream Satellite brings global BTC access
The Blockchain and financial cryptography Blockstream has announced the availability of Blockstream Satellite. This is a service which broadcasts real-time Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain data from a group of communication satellites to...
Morpheus.Network platform adopted by Federated Co-operatives
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The Agreements Network to use smart contracts to manage agreements process
A collection of innovative law firms and technology companies have agreed to work together to further the launch of a public, permissioned blockchain network, the Agreements Network. This seeks to redefine...
Accenture and Generali apply blockchain to employee benefits
Accenture and Generali Employee Benefits (GEB) have debuted a blockchain solution for the employee benefits (EB) industry. This enables participants in the reinsurance process for captive or pooling services to access...
My Story, Italian wine and a blockchain
Italian wine makers are implementing My Story, a solution which offers consumers an easy check on the contents of each wine bottle. This is an example of how enterprises, large and...
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