IBM and Maersk’s global blockchain shipping platform continues to onboard major new global partners. TradeLens — the blockchain shipping platform created by IBM and Danish logistics giant Maersk — has signed on a major Turkish-owned international terminals operator. TradeLens is a global supply chain management platform designed for containerized freight and logistics, which was first launched…
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IBM could teach banks a thing or two about DeFi. In a Cointelegraph interview, director of IBM financial services and digital assets, Nitin Gaur, shared how the technology company is helping financial institutions to capitalize on the DeFi movement. Gaur — the author of Blockchain for Business — says it is essential that banks understand…
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The world’s most famous chess player, Garry Kasparov, supports BTC as a means to fight human rights violations. Garry Kasparov, the Russian chessmaster who faced off against IBM’s “Deep Blue” supercomputer, says Bitcoin, crypto and blockchain technologies, are the solution to the demand for privacy in financial markets. In a July 23 interview with Forbes…
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Smucker will use a blockchain to trace Colombian coffee beans while letting consumers make donations to coffee farmers in Colombia. The J.M. Smucker Company, also known as Smucker’s, has announced that it will use blockchain technology to trace Colombian coffee beans directly back to their source while allowing consumers the opportunity to support coffee farmers.…
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A chess game between grandmaster Sergey Karjakin and Algorand founder Silivio Micali was recorded on the blockchain. Algorand founder Silvio Micali played a Blockchain-recorded chess game against grandmaster Sergey Karjakin. This marked a historic moment for the fifteen hundred year old game. Gentlemen are cheating too The match, which was the inaugural game for FIDE…
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The blockchain trade finance platform backed by major banks reportedly laid off almost half of its workforce due to a lack of funding. Owing to ongoing financial difficulties, the IBM Hyperledger-powered trade finance blockchain platform we.trade is laying off almost half of its workforce. According to a Global Trade Review report, “more than a dozen…
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A Bangeldeshi government agency is collaborating with IBM to harness blockchain for modernizing the country’s digital pension system. IBM has announced an initiative to build a distributed ledger technology, or DLT, based architecture to underpin the digital pension system for Bangladeshi primary school teachers. The proof-of-concept comprises a permissioned network of teachers and other stakeholders…
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India’s largest port operator APSEZ has partnered with IBM’s TradeLens platform to digitize its supply chain process. The largest multi-port operator of India, Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Limited (APSEZ), has partnered with the blockchain-based supply chain solution platform TradeLens. APSEZ plans to integrate TradeLens’s blockchain solutions across 10 of its major courier management…
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U.S. berry producer California Giant Berry Farms joined the blockchain-based food tracking solution IBM Food Trust. U.S. berry producer California Giant Berry Farms joined the blockchain-based food tracking solution IBM Food Trust. Fruit and vegetable news outlet The Packer reported on May 17 that California Giant will use a blockchain to share data between all…
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IBM’s head of blockchain in Australia and New Zealand has shared the firm’s outlook for the integration of DLT into supply chain systems. In an interview with Cointelegraph, Rupert Colchester, the head of blockchain at IBM Australia and New Zealand, discussed how distributed ledger technology is transforming supply chain systems worldwide. Colchester also provided insight…
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