Blockchain Frontline: 2018 recap and what to watch for in 2019
Blockchain has not quite emerged from its pupa. Yet that is steadily coming closer, and might occur in 2019 (though it will likely be 2020 before one can be certain).
In that...
Microsoft expands blockchain support with Coco Framework
Microsoft has extended its blockchain offerings. Notably it claims to handle more than 1,600 transactions per second – which would be faster than most current networks (but not as fast as...
Marco Polo and a German/Austrian SME trade transaction
S-Servicepartner and Raiffeisen Bank International are bringing a new customer group - medium-sized enterprises - into focus on the blockchain platform Marco Polo. This confirms that the trade finance products offered...
Accenture enables interoperability between blockchain platforms
Accenture enables business process synchronization between Digital Asset, R3 Corda, Hyperledger Fabric and Quorum distributed ledger platforms. It has has developed and tested two technology solutions which enable different blockchain enabled...
Blockchain Catch-up Week 33 (to w/e 28th August)
This is a start-of-the-week Enterprise Times ‘blockchain catch-up’ for Week 33. The catch-up is not intended to be comprehensive; it seeks to highlight developments covered by Enterprise Times. Then, in the...
Trading Cryptocurrencies: A Beginner’s Guide – Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin
Trading Cryptocurrencies: A Beginner’s Guide - Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin (Trading Cryptocurrencies) is a modest, slim book of some 70 pages (an additional 15 pages are devoted to marketing services and other...
Seagate + IBM work on storage fraud prevention via blockchain
Seagate Technology (Seagate), which produces data storage solutions, and IBM are working together to reduce product counterfeiting using blockchain and security technologies. Their project - which is designed to help manufacturers,...
Is Dimon right about Bitcoin (and cryptocurrencies)?
At an industry conference organised by Barclays, Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan, stated “Bitcoin will eventually blow up. It’s a fraud. It’s worse than tulip bulbs and won’t end well.”...
Figure chosen by Apollo for blockchain collaboration
Apollo Global Management (Apollo) and Figure Technologies (Figure) have announced that affiliates of Apollo and Figure have entered into an agreement to collaborate on a series of blockchain-enabled initiatives. As part...
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...