As mental health continues to decline, what will happen when medicine and virtual worlds come together in the Metaverse? The world is becoming more connected as cryptocurrency, blockchain, nonfungible token projects, the Metaverse and other online communities gain popularity. However, we’re also seeing rates of depression and feelings of isolation and loneliness skyrocket. This development…
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Blockchain-powered solutions have been on the front line of the battle against the virus, yet their potential has been underutilized. On Jan. 30, the South China Morning Post reported that one of the largest Asian pharmaceutical companies, Zuellig, had launched a blockchain-based system to track the quality of COVID-19 vaccines. Called “eZTracker,” it allows any…
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Blockchain documentation service Transcrypts announced a partnership with the humanitarian organization on Thursday. At a November 11 press conference, blockchain- based document security company Transcrypts announced a partnership with Doctors Without Borders, or DWB, that began on October 14th. Working together, they have already uploaded 6500 immunization records to the blockchain, with a goal of…
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Healthcare researchers in collaboration with crypto innovators might prove that a longer and healthier lifespan is an attainable reality. The promise of a longer and healthier life has dominated both cultural and medical discourse for centuries. From the first accounts of Nicolas Flamel’s philosopher’s stone granting immortality to the latest superfood that promised to reverse…
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Here’s what emerging tech representatives think about the decentralized nature of blockchain technology and which network is the most decentralized. Vasja Zupan of Matrix Exchange: Vasja is the president of Matrix Exchange, a regulated digital-asset exchange operating globally. “Bitcoin is the most decentralized and stable blockchain network there is. It has survived countless challenges, and…
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Implementing artificial intelligence and blockchain technology into healthcare and medicine is key to unlocking human longevity. In the past 60 years, the life expectancy of the average newborn has increased by nearly 20 years — from 52.5 to 72, as of 2018. We’ve seen an incredible wave of technological innovation in this time: The introduction…
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COVID-19 has infected more than 17.6 million people in India. A crypto-based relief fund is raising millions to help the country cope with the disaster. The cryptocurrency community has donated over $2.2 million to help India battle a resurgence in COVID-19 cases that has gripped the South Asian country over the past month. Polygon co-founder…
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The price of SingularityNET’s AGI token has been on the move as DeFi capabilities, cross-chain integrations and layer-two functionality drive demand higher. The internet has reshaped society over the past 40 years, and experts are predicting that digital technologies and artificial intelligence will continue to transform how humans interact with data for the foreseeable future.…
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Blockchain technology is being used to cement confidence in the integrity of new health surveillance measures such as COVID-19 vaccine passports. South Korea, which has begun its COVID-19 vaccine rollout for residents over 75 years of age, has revealed plans to use blockchain technology to certify forthcoming vaccine passports for immunized citizens. According to Reuters,…
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The U.K.’s National Health Service will implement an IoT solution built on the public distributed ledger network Hedera Hashgraph in order to monitor the storage of its COVID-19 vaccine supplies. Public distributed ledger network Hedera Hashgraph is being used by a United Kingdom-based digital asset tracking provider called Everyware to provide the country’s National Health…
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