Shell and Sumitomo invest in LO3 Energy to develop blockchain-based community energy platform
LO3 Energy (LO3) has secured backing from Shell and Sumitomo to add to its roster of corporate investors. LO3 technology enables the integration of distributed renewable energy resources into local energy...
A Blockchain Value Framework: measuring blockchain values
Co-designed with Accenture, the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Blockchain Value Framework is the second in a series of white papers aimed at enterprises and organisations wishing to understand how blockchain technology...
Marubeni invests in WePower’s renewable energy procurement and trading platform
Marubeni Corporation (Marubeni) has announced that it has signed a convertible loan agreement (though it does not state the size of the loan) with WePower UAB (WePower), a Lithuanian start-up which...
Koin Rewards and TrueLayer to use Open Banking for ethical loyalty rewards
Koin Rewards, an ethical rewards platform built on blockchain, has integrated with leading financial API provider TrueLayer to provide customers with instant rewards via Open Banking. Customers will receive instant rewards...
Komodo’s Antara framework and ‘Smart Chains’
Komodo has announced that Antara, an end-to-end 'Smart Chain' development framework, has gone live. Antara enables developers to break from many of the limitations of a single-chain blockchain platform architecture by...
OneConnect partners with UnionBank to offer blockchain-enabled platform for MSMEs
OneConnect Financial Technology (OneConnect), an associate company of China's insurance Ping An Group, is partnering with UBX Philippines, a wholly-owned fintech subsidiary of Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank), to build...
MOBI VID standard on blockchain, with BMW, Ford, Groupe Renault and others
The Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative's member-led Vehicle Identification (VID) working group has created and now launched the industry's first VID standard. With this, MOBI introduces blockchain technology for digital vehicle identification...
EnCirca starts pre-registrations for blockchain domain names
EnCirca is now accepting applications for Ethereum's .ETH domain names. The deadline for applications is August 10, 2019. Encirca believes it is the first ICANN Accredited Registrar to accept such applications.
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OneConnect to build supply chain finance ecosystem
OneConnect, a member company of Ping An Group (the world's largest insurance group by market cap) aims to make multi-party information sharing a reality with blockchain. It hopes to break information...
Huobi and Nervos partner for decentralised financial services blockchain
Huobi Group, a blockchain services provider, is partnering with layered blockchain network Nervos to develop a new public blockchain focused on decentralized financial (DeFi) services. The project, provisionally named Huobi Finance...