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Technology company FPT Corporation and SBI Holdings Inc. collectively made investments to the tune of $3 million in Vietnamese blockchain tech company Utop. FPT Corporation and SBI Holdings Inc. have supposedly inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to invest $3 million in the partner firm Utop, a tech start -up based on the FPT’s enterprise Read more...
Decentralized social media platform Mithril (MITH) embraced the Binance Chain, renowned digital currency Binance’s mainnet. Mithril revealed the integration in an April 18 blog post. Binance Chain has been among the most awaited blockchain ventures since it revealed the plan in early 2018. The native decentralized blockchain platform of the exchange was created to sustain Read more...
Evrythng, an internet-of-things (IoT) tool that “activates every consumer product to make it smart, interactive and trackable,” inked a deal with IOTA to incorporate the latter’s distributed ledger and IoT technologies to offer increased openness for consumer goods logistics. IOTA was selected as a tool for EVRYTHNG programmers to create on as it foreseeably “brings Read more...
Donald Tapscott, Blockchain Research Institute’s executive chairman, said the legal tender of China, the renminbi (RMB), would turn out to be a digital currency in an April 17 interview with Bloomberg. Ironically, no country has attempted as hard as China to wipe out Bitcoin. The government prohibited crypto exchanges after issuing a blanket ban on Read more...
Volkswagen is participating in a transparent industry partnership for accountable procurement of strategic minerals using blockchain technology and to improve efficiency, conservation, and accountability in global supply chains of minerals. Ford Motor Company, Huayou Cobalt, IBM, LG Chem and RCS Global revealed the partnership this year. The company is signing up for a blockchain-driven program Read more...
The engineering team behind the upcoming blockchain network, Telegram Open Network (TON), has teamed up with Wirecard, the German financial services provider. TON Labs, which also operates as a technology powerhouse for advancement of ventures related to decentralization, will operate with Wirecard to build unique digital investment vehicles. The collaboration is announced a week after Read more...
US federal government is likely to boost its blockchain expenditure to $123.5 million by 2022—an exponential rise of over 1,000% relative to the $10.7 million it expended in 2017. The projections were made in an IDC Government Insights report, published April 18. IDC states that blockchain expenditure between state and federal governments is also expected Read more...
Coinbase, the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange is extending its operations to cover additional 11 countries in Southeast Asia and Latin America. In its blog post, the company stated that it would begin offering crypto-to-crypto trading services to clients in Argentina, Peru, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, South Korea, the Philippines and New Zealand. Read more...
Ernst & Young (EY), one of the Big Four accounting firm, intends to unveil its zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) privacy solution to assist in accelerating the use of secure, private blockchain trades. The model of the ZKP private transaction protocol, dubbed as EY Ops Chain Public Edition (PE), was introduced in October 2018 at Ethereum Devcon Read more...
