The Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts — ‘IC3’, a NYC-based consortium of leading academics and industry leaders who are driving innovations in blockchains and distributed ledgers…

The Chamber of Digital Commerce published a new white paper: ‘Smart Contracts: 12 Use Cases for Business & Beyond’ at its Smart Contracts Symposium. The inaugural event took place at the Microsoft Technology Center in…

London-based cryptocurrency start-up, Referral Foundation is introducing cryptocurrency and blockchain technology to the referral marketing economics. Referral marketing is a form of marketing…

Mainstreet Investment, LP, a Cayman Islands limited partnership issuing a digital token security backed by real assets, has released a memorandum of details and procedures related to the company’s Mainstreet Investment Token…

Euroclear and Paxos™, a financial technology company delivering pioneering blockchain solutions, have announced the successful completion of the first pilot for Euroclear Bankchain, a new blockchain settlement service for London…

Chinese P2P platform Dianrong.com has announced it is joining the Hyperledger Project. The company also recently joined the ‘2016 Top 50 Chinese Enterprises with Highest Growth Value’ thanks to its ‘outstanding…

BlockCypher, a provider of Blockchain Web Services™, has announced the release of its Analytics API to help institutions combat cybersecurity thefts and comply with regulations. The average cost of a data breach to an organization is now $4M, up…

Indian-based company Mahindra Group and IBM have announced the development of a blockchain solution to transform supply chain finance across India by enhancing security, transparency and operational processes.

Taiwan-based start-up Bitmark Inc., which raised $1.7 million in seed funding last week, has announced the release of a new white paper titled ‘Defining Property in the Digital…

Note: This blog will be broken into 3 sections in order to explain the evolution of how the consensus algorithm achieved by Raft was attempted to be fixed by Tangaroa and Juno and then finally solved by its distant relative Kadena. The 3 sections include: