EU aims Blockchain4eu at non-fintech and SMEs
The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship & SMEs (DG GROW) have launched a project under unlovely and gimmicky title of: “#Blockchain4EU: Blockchain for Industrial...
HyperChain Capital invests in CoinDash
HyperChain Capital has entered into a collaboration agreement and made a strategic investment into CoinDash. CoinDash is a 'digital assets social media platform' for investors to create and maintain their Crypto...
Indian banks go with BankChain on Azure Blockchain
BankChain is an Indian bank platform for exploring, building and implementing blockchain solutions. BankChain has selected Microsoft Azure as its exclusive cloud partner. Twenty BankChain members - including State Bank of...
Blockchain Research Institute snags governments
The Blockchain Research Institute (BRI) has extended its public sector support. The syndicated research program, of over 40 projects on the strategic implications of blockchain, has snagged the Government of Canada,...
Emercoin to support cryptocurrency bank
Digital currency and blockchain platform provider Emercoin has announced it is to host the document flow for Polybius Bank. Based in Estonia, Polybius Bank is positioning itself as the world's first...
Blockchain growth to rise to $2.3B by 2021?
Another fat, and expensive (US$650) report predicts massive growth for blockchain technologies. This time it forecasts the ‘overall’ size of blockchain expenditure four years out.
The Report has a snappy title: “Blockchain...
Australian CSIRO reports on blockchain
The Australian research organisation, CSIRO - via Data61, has produced two reports on blockchain technology. These examine the risks and opportunities of this technology for Australia.
The first report, ‘Distributed Ledgers: Scenarios...
Decentralised Governance Protocol for blockchains
The Qtum Project has announced a Decentralized Governance Protocol (DGP). Its objective is to enable rapid modification of blockchain parameters without ecosystem disruption. Qtum will debut a beta version of the...
Blockchain criminally exempt?
A group of fifteen organisations from seven European countries has initiated a project – named TITANIUM. This stands for ‘Tools for the Investigation of Transactions in Underground Markets’).Its purpose: to curtail...
Swedish bank adopts global trade finance platform
SEB, the Nordic financial services group will implement and support of CGI’s Trade360 solution for trade finance. Through a partnership, SEB will obtain CGI's expertise in emerging digital technologies, such as...