Microsoft Minting Enterprise-Ready Tokens / Coco-Cola’s Mega Blockchain Expansion / China’s Digital Currency Plans
November 6, 2019
Now that we’ve officially begun the mad dash to the holiday seasons and year-end, let’s get to the weekly updates! Microsoft made headlines this week announcing the launch of the Azure Blockchain Tokens platform. Coca-Cola expands its blockchain efforts from two to 70 of the manufacturers that deliver the 160,000 bottles Coca-Cola shops daily. We get a look at how Salesforce is using blockchain and Hyperledger’s role in the process. IBM plans to debut its Ethical Mineral Sourcing Blockchain in the Spring of 2020. Also this week we got additional Libra news, technical analysis of Ethereum vs Fabric vs Corda, the 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers in FinTech, along with introductions to The Open Application Network (OAN) & Ethereum Marketing DAOs
In the DApps landscape, we’ve got LiquidApps announcing the launch of LiquidX, a powerful new functionality of the DAPP Network. Samsung stays in the loop with continuing its reach into DApps, ConsenSys gives us their October 2019 report, and we round out with a breakdown of the strongest rising DApp categories. We even found room to cram in plenty of research (Q3 2019 Blockchain Landscape) & books (on Digital Assets & Enterprise Blockchain) along with insights on venture capital (new funds!!), infrastructure, DApps, Bitcoin, Economics, Exchanges, and Stablecoins. For MORE and to keep you up to speed, here’s a snapshot of the top stories this week around the industry.
📈 Microsoft Unveils Platform for Minting Enterprise-Ready Crypto Tokens
Microsoft has announced the launch of the Azure Blockchain Tokens platform. The platform allows businesses to choose from a growing set of token-building templates that conform to the Token Taxonomy Initiative (TTI) — a standards push and enterprise consortium spearheaded Marley Gray, a principal architect at Microsoft…read more
🇨🇳 Why China’s Digital Currency Is a ‘Wake-Up Call’ for the U.S.
China’s central bank may launch its own digital currency in the next 18 months amid strong endorsements of blockchain from the highest levels of government, signaling a desire for China to be self-reliant and globally competitive and adding another dimension to the growing U.S.-China tech rivalry.…read more
📖 Coca-Cola Supply Chain Firm to Expand Blockchain Effort to 70 Partners
The IT firm behind Coca-Cola’s bottle manufacturing supply chain processes looks to be getting a taste for blockchain technology. Coke One North America (CONA) says its pilot project with software provider SAP is now set to be expanded from two to 70 of the manufacturers that deliver the 160,000 bottles Coca-Cola shops daily…read more
📈 How Salesforce Is Using Blockchain To Decentralize Data & Hyperledger’s Role
Hyperledger Executive Director Brian Behlendorf is elaborating on how the American cloud-based software company Salesforce launched its blockchain offering on top of Hyperledger Sawtooth and how it helps in improving their business. He also mentioned that absolving concerns about the centralization of data could help Salesforce expand into new verticals.…read more
📖 The Unintended Consequences of Platform Economies by Matthew Spoke
Platforms have reverted business models in every primary industry and created complex win-win co-ordination games between stakeholder groups that all benefit more post-use. Platforms come in many shapes and sizes; however, consistent across the vast majority is the emergence of interest groups that form a higher entity “ecosystem” around a problem or set of challenges…read more and for more on The Open Application Network
📖 New Blockchain Tool Promises Verifiable Audits in 30 Seconds
Armanino launched a new blockchain-based tool Wednesday, promising firm-originated financial audits in seconds. Called TrustExplorer 2.0, the product is one of several promising to overturn how accounting is done within companies…read more
🇨🇳 China Introduces Blockchain-Based Identification System For Cities
China continues to up its blockchain game with an independently developed blockchain-based identification system for cities as part of its smart city infrastructure. The blockchain-based identification system will assign a unique, global digital ID to China’s smart cities, aiming to improve the connectivity and data sharing between these cities…read more
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📖 Facebook shouldn’t be driving libra cryptocurrency project, Ethereum co-founder says
Facebook should not be spearheading the libra cryptocurrency project, according to a co-founder of the ethereum blockchain. “I’m a big fan of projects like Libra,” Joseph Lubin told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Tuesday. “I don’t believe that Facebook with the concerns that we have with respect to trust and personal identity in Facebook, should be driving that project.”…read more
📖 IBM Ethical Mineral Sourcing Blockchain to Debut in Spring
Ford, Volkswagon, LG, and Volvo plan to take a pilot project tracking cobalt during its refining process live in production next year. The Responsible Sourcing Blockchain Network (RSBN), an international consortium built on Hyperledger Fabric, announced Wednesday it had successfully completed a pilot project to protect against exploitative mining practices. The companies sent 1.5 tons of Congolese cobalt across three different continents over five months of refinement, clearing the way for the project to become operational in spring 2020.…read more
📖 Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on FinTech (November 2019)

More For Your Week:
📖 Enterprise Blockchain Protocols: A Technical Analysis of Ethereum vs Fabric vs Corda and more from Kaleido
📖 Introducing the Ethereum Marketing DAO and more from Marketing DAO
📖 Returns of Hodling versus DeFi-ing by Evgeny Yurtaev
📖 Open Applications and Solving the Future of Platform Economics
📖 Congress Passes Laws Against Threats Including ‘Decentralized Cryptocurrencies’
💰 Stablecoins, including Facebook-led Libra, could come under securities rules, says global watchdog
💰 Dai stablecoin outstanding supply hits 100M ‘debt ceiling’
💰Turkey working on digital currency; pilots expected to finish by end of 2020
💰Nervos Network Targets November Launch With $72 Million Token Sale
🇨🇳 Op Ed: In China, It’s Blockchain and Tyranny vs Bitcoin and Freedom
📖 TRON, Stellar Join Mousebelt’s Blockchain Education Alliance to Train Student Developers and more by MouseBelt Labs
📖 The Most Important Blockchain Hire by Jake Stott
💸 Exchanges Are Open Finance by Kyle Samani
📖 The American Dream: The Road to Financial Freedom by Alex Mashinsky & Celsius Network
DApps (Decentralized Apps) Watch
📖 LiquidX Brings DSP Services To All EOSIO Chains and dApps

LiquidApps has announced the launch of LiquidX, a powerful new functionality of the DAPP Network which allows DSPs to offer services on any EOSIO chain. When the team began launching services on the DAPP Network, they envisioned the DSP marketplace for essential developer services being implemented on other chains as well…read more
📖 Kadena Goes Live, Announces New Token Sale Aiming for $20 Million
Kadena’s formally known blockchain proof-of-work (PoW) network called Chainweb went live on mainnet Monday. The founders of the company are hoping to raise an additional $20 million. Currently, there are a total of 10 PoW networks in Kadena. This number could increase via system-wide upgrades in the future…read more
📖 Samsung Galaxy S10 Users Can Now Access Tron DApps
According to Forbes magazine, Tron has been integrated on Samsung’s Blockchain Keystore, a space that was up until now, only reserved for ethereum assets and bitcoin. Samsung’s Blockchain Keystores is a secure enclave for hosting blockchain assets and applications that are available at scale for the first time, on potentially millions of mobile devices. The owners of Galaxy S10 are now able to access Tron tokens and Tron DApps via Samsung devices…read more
📖 ConsenSys Monthly Recap — October 2019
In October, 4,000+ developers, designers, researchers, and scholarship recipients came together in Osaka, Japan for Devcon5. ConsenSys put a call out for One Million Ethereum Developers. Gitcoin released Gitcoin Quests — a colorful gamified way to learn about the web3 ecosystem, earn rewards, and beef up your decentralization knowledge. 7 Ethereum projects scored $175,000 in ConsenSys Grants, and the applications are now open for the third wave…read more
📖 The Changing Face of DApps: Which DApp Categories Are The Strongest?
There are about 3,000 dApps in existence, primarily scattered across Ethereum, EOS, and TRON. Fans of blockchain tech believe that dApps can challenge traditional web apps — but there’s little agreement on which dApp categories hold the most promise. As per their Dapp.com evaluation, DeFi volumes are rising as gaming dApps appear to have peaked while gambling apps have a significant presence…read more
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