Jinwowo and the China Mobile Blockchain Association Committee are building China’s first blockchain lab to empower e-commerce. Network technology company Jinwowo and the China Mobile Blockchain Association Committee held a “cloud signing” ceremony on April 13 to partner on the development of the first “blockchain and e-commerce ecology” laboratory in Chongqing China, according to a…
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A controversial, blockchain-based digital health passport could enable employees currently in lockdown to go back to work. Oracle has partnered with Vottun, a company that specializes in the certification and traceability of data on the blockchain, to release a digital health passport that could enable employees currently in lockdown to go back to work. The…
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Airwallex is one of just three Australian ‘unicorns,’ raising $160 million in a round led by ANZ bank and cloud software firm Salesforce. Australian fintech unicorn and RippleNet member, Airwallex, raised $160 million in a fundraising round led by the investment arms of Australian ‘big four’ bank, ANZ, and San Francisco-based cloud software company, Salesforce.…
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The COO of blockchain payments and ID firm Nuggets has been named as Booking.com’s entrepreneur of the year. Booking.com selected Seema Johnson, the co-founder and COO of blockchain-based payments and ID platform Nuggets, as Entrepreneur of the Year in the company’s Technology Playmaker Awards on April 9. The Playmaker Awards were launched by the global travel…
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From the number of developers, to transactions per second, and now parity in daily value transfers, ETH is coming after BTC. The daily average transaction values across the Ethereum platform are now equal to those of the Bitcoin (BTC) network. According to blockchain analytics firm Messari, the daily value transfer — the total value of…
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Cargill & Agrocorp settled their first international trade of $12 million wheat using blockchain. International agriculture giants, Agrocorp and Cargill, have traded $12 million worth of wheat from North America to Indonesia via the blockchain. The transaction was made via the Singapore-based blockchain platform dltledgers, which is based on Hyperledger Fabric. International cooperative bank Rabobank,…
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A Singapore-based sports blockchain venture begins trading a token released by Italian soccer club, Juventus. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) are not new to the sports industry. Some NBA teams began accepting BTC as payment for tickets as early as 2014. Since then, the relationship between sports and crypto has been rapidly evolving. Today, a firm…
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Digital tokens like Zcash and Monero rose in 2019, while even larger coins like LTC are focusing on privacy features to gain new market share. According to a new report, privacy-focused digital assets like Zcash (ZEC) and Monero (XMR) surged in price in 2019. Those with a higher market cap, like Litecoin (LTC), may be…
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Amid record correlation between Bitcoin and the S&P 500, the IMF has predicted the worst global downturn in almost a century. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has published a stark prediction that the unprecedented global economic slowdown triggered by ‘the great lockdown’ will get much worse before it gets better. With Bitcoin (BTC) experiencing a…
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German firm Black Manta Capital Partners has launched a security token offering for $12 million worth of Berlin real estate. Germany’s Black Manta Capital Partners has launched a security token offering (STO) for Berlin real estate worth more than $12 million. The project is a collaboration with the German real estate firm Tigris Immobilien and…
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