A Canada-based company is turning to blockchain technology in their efforts to fight the coronavirus pandemic in Latin America. Emerge, a blockchain startup based in Toronto, is launching a public safety system app called Civitas to assist local authorities in many nations. …

Bitcoin (BTC) price has gained more than 10% in the last week, giving bulls some hope that the road ahead is a bright one for the leading digital asset. However, despite an effort to blast through the critical resistance level of $7,200 as mentioned in last week’s analysis, there was…

European football governing body, Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) has recently joined the league of organizations adopting the cryptocurrency industry and blockchain technology. UEFA says it will unveil its new blockchain ticketing system in the forthcoming competition. …

Yesterday Danone unveiled its Track & Connect service, a blockchain food traceability solution to provide greater transparency for its baby formula brands, including Aptamil. It has already launched in China and will be rolled out this year in France, Germany, Australia and New Zealand. The choice of China for the…

Since the release of a game called CryptoKitties in November 2017, the concept of nonfungible tokens has been rooted in the minds of developers and crypto investors alike. The year 2019 was groundbreaking, with large, multinational companies beginning to draw attention to the new sector of digital assets and develop…

Yesterday BASF unveiled a new pilot blockchain for recycling plastics, reciChain. The novel pilot is launching in Canada’s British Columbia following an earlier pilot in Brazil. Deloitte research found that Canada produced 3.3 million tones of plastic waste in 2016, of which only 11% was recycled. …

Yesterday Deutsche Telekom announced that with three other telecoms firms, it’s testing a production-ready blockchain solution. The solution helps to draft and sign inter-operator roaming discount agreements. The participants are Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile US, Telefonica, Orange and the GSMA. Every telecom company has numerous agreements with others for roaming, and…

The public distributed ledger (DLT) IOTA has temporarily halted part of its network to investigate wallet thefts. Transactions that don’t have any financial value are still happening, but the IOTA Foundation switched off the coordinator, which validates token transfers. IOTA is one of the public distributed ledgers that is fairly…

Joseph Lubin, a co-founder of Ethereum and the head of ConsenSys, the biggest blockchain software company in the world, re-affirmed his initiative to bring more than a million developers into the ETH ecosystem at ETHDenver. ConsenSys first introduced the “1 Million Developers” initiative in October 2019 to expand the developer…