As nations across the globe are trying to contain the virus, the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare shortcomings in our health, science, government, and business organizations. With over 2.5 million infected and over 170,000 deaths, every continent except for Antarctica has been affected by the coronavirus and with numbers increasing…

Forbes recently published the second edition of its Blockchain 50. The list aims to capture the billion dollar companies most active in blockchain. To be included in the Blockchain 50, a company must have a valuation above $1 billion. A quick glance down the list reveals a mixture of banks…

Welcome to the second Blockchain Weekly update from Blockdata. In case you missed last week’s post, you can find it on our blog. We have also published an overview of the major CBDC projects (central bank digital currencies). Hyperledger releases version 2.0 of its popular Fabric platform [Ledger Insights] Hyperledger, a project of the Linux Foundation and IBM, has released a…

Blockchain seems to have the most potential in the oldest industries. The centuries-old practice of insuring against losses is no different. We compiled a list of 15 companies who are using blockchain technology to build a wide variety of innovative solutions in insurance. First, the table. …

When we think about blockchain adoption, one of the first things that springs to mind is supply chain. According to Drew Volpe, Managing Partner at First Star Ventures, supply chain is “a natural place to apply blockchain technologies.” Given the keen interest of some of the world’s biggest distributors and…

There is increasing belief that stablecoins represent a key step towards the widespread adoption of blockchain technology. Facebook’s announcement last week of Project Libra and JPMorgan’s JPMCoin initiative are just two recent examples of major companies working on stablecoin projects. Because of this flurry of activity, we decided to take…

Some entries have been updated on August 20th, 2019. 2019 looks to be the year of the stablecoin. Since the beginning of 2017, 122 stablecoin projects have been announced but are still in development. …

On Monday, just as New York’s Consensus blockchain conference was getting underway, crypto payments startup Flexa made a huge announcement: people can now spend crypto at 15 major retailers in the US. This means you can now buy anything from a coffee to a coffee machine with crypto. That’s right…

Today, we are taking a look at the most popular online retail and service providers that accept cryptocurrency as payment. For this list, we looked at companies that have more than $100 million in annual revenues. We included everything from satellite tv providers to shopping platforms. …