Charles Brett’s Blockchain Catch-up Week 25 (2021)
This is Charles Brett's start-of-the-week Enterprise Times ‘blockchain catch-up’ Week 25 (2021). Necessarily it is idiosyncratic and selective.
It is not intended to be comprehensive but does seek to highlight 'Quick Takes' on...
Elia Group + Energy Web launch partnership based around EW-DOS
Elia Group and Energy Web (EW) are to partner in a multi-year strategy. This will focus on testing and validating the technological promises of enterprise-grade, blockchain-based solutions for supporting the energy...
Move over AWS, Azure, Google: DFINITY wants your lunch
DFINITY Stiftung (DFINITY) of Zug (Switzerland) and Palo Alto (California) has announced its formal intent to create an open network that serves as a massive virtual mainframe computer in cyberspace and...
Charles Brett’s Blockchain Catch-up 2022-Week 46
This is Charles Brett's start-of-the-week Enterprise Times ‘blockchain catch-up’ 2022-Week 46. Necessarily it is idiosyncratic and selective.
It is not intended to be comprehensive but does seek to highlight ‘Quick Takes’ on...
SWIFT’s ‘gpi Link’ meets Corda DLT for trade ecosystems
Back in January (2019) SWIFT added a proof of concept (PoC) to trial a new gateway - the 'gpi Link' - with R3's Corda. The objective is to try out interlinking...
NEM Ventures invests in IoDLT (Internet of Distributed Ledger Technologies)
NEM Ventures (NEM), the venture capital and investments arm of the NEM blockchain ecosystem, has invested in IoDLT, a B2B blockchain and IoT-based startup. IoDLT utilises IoT and NEM Catapult to...
CDC and WHO’s Coronavirus data, visualised from a blockchain
Acoer, developer of blockchain-enabled applications, is helping its healthcare and life sciences clients to easily track and visualize the ongoing Coronavirus outbreak. It will do this using its HashLog data visualisation...
More dismal EU EASME blockchain investment examples
In a recent examination of EASME (the EU's The Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises), ET was somewhat scathing about the amount it was investing in blockchain or distributed ledger...
Kadena scales hybrid blockchain 480K TPS on 20 chains
Kadena has increased the performance of its scalable layer-1 public blockchain - from 10 to 20 chains and 480K TPS (for a visualization see here). This makes it, in Kadena's words,...
Regulator ESMA warns about ICOs
The European Securities and Markets Authority ( ESMA ) has issued two Statements on Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) - and it is not the first:
on the risks of ICOs for...