Accord Project welcomes magic circle law firms
The Accord Project – a legal industry body for smart legal contracts – has announced that 'magic circle' law firms Allen & Overy, Freshfields, and Slaughter and May are joining the...
Indian blockchain network to prevent fraud built on Monetago
After years of blockchain proofs of concept and pilots, Monetago has deployed an enterprise grade offering for multiple financial services organizations.
The production system, based on the Hyperledger Fabric, provides a common...
SAP on blockchain study
A new study from SAP on blockchain reveals what many many think obvious: it is past time to accept blockchain as imminent. For some, distributed ledger technology (DLT or blockchain) remains...
Modex launches blockchain smart contract marketplace
Modex's Smart Contract Marketplace aims to tackle the 'last mile' adoption problem by bringing to market an app store for the blockchain. It aspiration is to bring blockchain technology into daily...
Ransomware payments, blockchain and cryptoexchanges
The murky ecosystem of ransomware payments comes into focus in new research led by Damon McCoy, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
Ransomware...
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...
Is GDPR blockchain’s Brexit?
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is due to come into force in May 2018; for blockchain technology this may pose a mighty obstacle. One aspect of the GDPR is that...
Coca-Cola and the State Dept. team to use blockchain against forced labour
According to Reuters; Coca-Cola and the U.S. State Dept. - along with other companies - have announced they will launch a project using blockchain’s digital ledger technology to create a secure...
Eximchain raises $20M for blockchain-based supply chain platform
Eximchain has raised $20 million from strategic investors to support blockchain-based enterprise supply chain applications. Founded at MIT media lab in 2015, Eximchain says its mission relates to blockchain infrastructure supporting...
Northern Trust strengthens auditing via blockchain technology
Northern Trust launched the first commercial deployment of blockchain technology for private equity in February 2017. In March 2018 it extends this with an announcement that audit firms can now perform...