Medici Land Governance to build Mexican next-gen land registry
Overstock.com has announced its blockchain rights subsidiary, Medici Land Governance (MLG) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the municipality of Tulum in Quintana Roo, Mexico to develop a digital land...
Loyyal’s blockchain loyalty platform, V2
Loyyal, which uses blockchain technologies to enhance loyalty and incentive programs, has announced version 2.0 (V2) of its Loyyal Product Suite. This improves transaction processing throughput across the Company's distributed nodes...
Blockchain iris-recognition for patient identification
Patientory and IrisGuard are collaborating to use iris-recognition to address patient identity challenges across the healthcare system to deliver greater clinical, financial, and administrative efficiencies. Their plan is to combine leading...
Fiction Riot and DECENT to use blockchain for instant fair pay
DECENT is partnering with Fiction Riot and its Ficto platform to pay royalties via a blockchain. They have designed the resulting 'smart contracts' to deliver transparency of payments in US$ to all...
Kudelski launches ‘Blockchain Security Center’
Kudelski Security, the cybersecurity division of the Kudelski Group, has launched a 'Blockchain Security Center' (BSC). This aims to make available cryptography expertise to an evolving blockchain developer community. Expanding upon...
Kinect, TB and blockchain PoC
Kinect has announced that it launch a pilot tuberculosis project at Masina Hospital in South Mumbai. This pilot involves three doctors and forty patients at the hospital who will evaluate KinectNow...
CryptoHound uncovers (sort of) US$500M of hidden ETH
ORS CryptoHound is a multi-blockchain platform for analysing, investigating and reporting on BTC, ETH and ERC-20 tokens transactions. It uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms. An investigation by ORS CryptoHound revealed highly...
Ireland hosts blockathon for public services
Blockathon Ireland is a blockchain hackathon hosted by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in association with The Department of Finance. It aims to identify and analyse potential real-life use-cases...
Insolar launches 10K tps testnet
Enterprise blockchain platform Insolar has launched its testnet. Its purpose is to validate its claimed throughput of 10,000+ transactions per second (tps), more than blockchain competitors Ripple (1,000 tps) and Bitcoin...
ING commits to Corda Enterprise
ING Bank has agreed a five-year deal with R3 for an unlimited number of Corda Enterprise licenses. The objective is to encourage adoption of CorDapps across a wide range of bank-related...