A new trade management platform in Japan prevents data tampering using blockchain technology. Seven firms in Japan deploy blockchain to digitize trade paperwork. According to an Oct. 26 report by Japanese news agency The Nikkei, seven Japanese companies are preparing to invest in a n...
Stellar blockchain will support USDC stablecoin starting next year. USDC, the stablecoin developed by Centre, will launch on the Stellar blockchain in the first quarter of 2021, according to the firm. Today, USDC is supported by Ethereum and Algorand, the latter, in September, be...
Blockchain technology stands to boost the global economy by $1.7 trillion in the next decade with Asia seeing the most economic benefit, according to a new report by consulting company PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). PwC economists forecast a tipping point in 2025 if blockchain technologi...
VeChain Adopts Coinbase's Standard to Increase Blockchain Interoperability The VeChain Foundation has announced the integration of Coinbase's toolkit for blockchain integration, called Rosetta. The open source project, which was first unveiled by America's largest exchange...
In China, 4,435 applications for patents related to blockchain technology have been filed. This is half the number of patents applied for worldwide. It was revealed yesterday at the China International Blockchain Technology & Application Conference 2020. The data is contained in the...
Tripadvisor experience marketplace Viator has partnered with ShareRing to facilitate payments and store travelers sensitive information. Australian-based blockchain company ShareRing has partnered with Tripadvisor experience marketplace Viator to allow users to pay for almost 400,000 tourism ex...
Blockchain continues to attract interest in the pharmaceutical industry. Samsung’s new blockchain pilots are all about transparently tracking medicineNEWS. Samsung SDS will conduct a series of pilot projects in November to test blockchain-powered medicine distribution management. The...
Tether's (USDT) Dominance Reaches All-Time Low. Which Stablecoins Are Threatening Its Hegemony? The market share of the flagship stablecoin Tether (USDT) has slipped below 80 percent for the first time since its inception, according to data provided by crypto analytics firm CoinMetrics.CM A...
Blockchain Patents 'Skyrocket' in 2020, Alibaba Owns the Most Crypto Patents. A study from the team at Kisspatent shows that Alibaba Group is the largest blockchain patent holder in 2020 capturing 10x the number of patents held by IBM. The report notes that blockchain patents...
Figure Launches First Digital Fund Services Offering on Blockchain. Accomplishment Marks Use Case Expansion Across Financial Services Landscape with Friends & Family Capital II, L.P. as Inaugural Customer for Figure’s New Digital Fund Services Offering. SAN FRANCISC...
Blockchain Jobs Continue to Rise Despite Global Recession. Despite global recession in both crypto and traditional markets, many blockchain jobs continue to rise. Blockchain Jobs Continue to Rise Despite Global RecessionNEWS Trillions of dollars have been injected into the globa...
China Unveils Inaugural Blockchain City Rankings Beijing is officially China’s top blockchain city, per official rankings, but second city Shanghai placed third behind Shenzhen, the nation’s fastest-growing blockchain hub. These were the findings of a special se...
US Congress Considers Proposal to Study Use of Blockchain Technology in Commerce The US Congress is now considering a bill that seeks to direct the government to study the use of blockchain technology in commerce. US Representative Darren Soto introduced the bill, H.R.8153, to the Ho...
In relation to crypto trading and technology, blockchain is the technology that underpins digital currency. An example of digital currencies is ‘bitcoin’. In blockchain technology, each individual piece of data can only have one owner because the blockchain technology all...
