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Recently, the World Economic Forum predicted blockchain technology will “fundamentally alter the way financial institutions do business around the world” and will soon become “the…

Drachmae Travel Club, an exclusive blockchain travel portal, is conducting a competition for travellers. The ‘Bitcoin Altcoin and Blockchain Competition’ requires participating travellers to record the travel…

IBM and Crédit Mutuel Arkéa have announced the completion of their first blockchain project to improve the bank’s ability to verify customer identity. The result of this pilot is an operational permissioned…

PeerNova, Inc. has revealed that it has been selected as a “2016 TiE50 Winner” for the TiE50 Technology Awards Program. Winners were announced on May 6th at the organization’s annual entrepreneurial conference, TiEcon. Executives from PeerNova accepted the…

Consulting, technology and outsourcing services provider, ascr has announced an alliance with ascribe GmbH to develop a blockchain database solution built on BigchainDB, for a rewards and…

Ripple, the provider of distributed ledger financial settlement solutions, has announced the employment of Marcus Treacher as Global Head of Strategic Accounts.

Blockchain Inspector, based in the French commune of Angoulême, is an early stage startup aiming to use blockchain to combat fraud. In March, they signed a deal with their first customer, a London Bitcoin…

In his ninth budget speech last week, Hong Kong’s Financial Secretary John Tsang highlighted the Hong Kong government’s plan to foster the utilization of blockchain technology in the…