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Announcing First Round of Community Bounties
Announcing First Round of Community Bounties
We recently migrated our blog, you can find our new home at bloom.co/blog. To read the post, please click here.
Derek E. Silva
Aug 30, 2019
Introducing MetaMask-Free Bloom
Introducing MetaMask-Free Bloom
We are excited to announce that the Bloom web app is now MetaMask-free! As we’ve advocated from the beginning, the success of blockchain…
Derek E. Silva
May 9, 2019
How Does the Bloom Web App Work?
How Does the Bloom Web App Work?
This is the technical side of our MetaMask=Free blog post, providing a deep dive into how authentication, attestations, and migration work…
Derek E. Silva
May 9, 2019
A Day in the Life of a Blockchain Developer
A Day in the Life of a Blockchain Developer
Over the next few weeks, we are taking you beyond the screen and into what a typical Day in the Life looks like for Bloom’s team members…
Derek E. Silva
Jan 30, 2019
Built on Bloom: BlocuSign Makes Digital Signatures Provable and Secure with BloomID
Built on Bloom: BlocuSign Makes Digital Signatures Provable and Secure with BloomID
Today, successful digital document signature and notarization services such as Docusign, still fundamentally rely on trust. This introduces…
Shannon Wu
Dec 6, 2018
Built on Bloom: Lending Party Lets Anyone Get a Decentralized Fiat Loan with Bloom Protocol and…
Built on Bloom: Lending Party Lets Anyone Get a Decentralized Fiat Loan with Bloom Protocol and…
There are a lot of obstacles when receiving personal loans in today’s marketplace. Payday loans, allows lenders to borrow for a short…
Shannon Wu
Dec 3, 2018
Passport Data Stolen in Marriott Data Breach, 500M Records Exposed
Passport Data Stolen in Marriott Data Breach, 500M Records Exposed
On Friday, Marriott International disclosed a massive breach of its Starwood reservation system that exposed the personal and financial…
Shannon Wu
Nov 30, 2018
BERD Report: A Global View of Household Debt
BERD Report: A Global View of Household Debt
The Bloom Economic Research Division serves as a core research division within Bloom leading an open-source data approach to credit…
Shannon Wu
Nov 29, 2018
Built on Bloom: How SendPut Makes Employee Expense Reimbursements Instant with Bloom Protocol
Built on Bloom: How SendPut Makes Employee Expense Reimbursements Instant with Bloom Protocol
As an employee, reimbursements can be a pain. The reimbursement process allows employers to pay back employees who have spent their own…
Shannon Wu
Nov 28, 2018
This Week in Data Breaches: Amazon, Uber, USPS, and More
This Week in Data Breaches: Amazon, Uber, USPS, and More
November has been yet another month filled with data breach revelations and the ongoing failure of tech giants and government agencies to…
Shannon Wu
Nov 27, 2018
Announcing First Round of Developer Bounties
Announcing First Round of Developer Bounties
Bloom is very excited to launch our first round of developer-focused bounties. In the coming weeks, we will be opening bounties for…
Derek E. Silva
Nov 26, 2018
Report on Data Security: Failure at Facebook
Report on Data Security: Failure at Facebook
On September 28, Facebook announced that 50 million user accounts had been compromised in a massive security breach, the largest in the…
Shannon Wu
Nov 15, 2018
Bloom Sees Rapid Growth, Record High New Users in September and October
Bloom Sees Rapid Growth, Record High New Users in September and October
Bloom, a blockchain solution for secure global identity and inclusive credit scoring, sees record high new users in September and October.
Shannon Wu
Nov 14, 2018
BERD Report: The True Cost of Financial Exclusion
BERD Report: The True Cost of Financial Exclusion
The Bloom Economic Research Division serves as a core research division within Bloom leading an open-source data approach to credit…
Shannon Wu
Nov 9, 2018
Bloom partners with American Express Middle East to bring blockchain innovation to region as part…
Bloom partners with American Express Middle East to bring blockchain innovation to region as part…
Bloom, a blockchain solution for secure identity and inclusive credit, has announced a collaboration with American Express Middle East to…
Shannon Wu
Nov 6, 2018
Built on Bloom: dBonds Fixes the $186B Global Bond Market
Built on Bloom: dBonds Fixes the $186B Global Bond Market
We had a great time attending the Status #cryptolife hackathon, where we met with wonderful teams building on Bloom. Check out one of our…
Jesse Leimgruber
Nov 3, 2018
Built on Bloom: Detsy Empowers Worldwide Peer-to-Peer Commerce
Built on Bloom: Detsy Empowers Worldwide Peer-to-Peer Commerce
Detsy: Decentralized platform for selling handmade items
Jesse Leimgruber
Nov 3, 2018
This Week in Data Breaches — October 22th
This Week in Data Breaches — October 22th
Data breach news keeps on coming. This week, we see a number of tech giants embroiled in the battle on data privacy practices: Facebook…
Shannon Wu
Oct 26, 2018
“Data Belongs to Users” — Tim Cook on the Global Data Crisis
“Data Belongs to Users” — Tim Cook on the Global Data Crisis
The global data crisis has finally reached a breaking point. In the wake of the Equifax hack, the Facebook hack, GDPR, and California Data…
Shannon Wu
Oct 24, 2018
How CryptoSource Eliminates Fake News with BloomID
How CryptoSource Eliminates Fake News with BloomID
Fake news has been one of the most hotly-debated socio-political topics of recent years.
Shannon Wu
Oct 16, 2018
How Bloom Keeps Your Data Secure
How Bloom Keeps Your Data Secure
Every day, as you browse, type, and talk online, your activity is being monitored, tracked, and analyzed. Your personal information is…
Shannon Wu
Oct 11, 2018
Sponsoring ETH SF Hackathon API Prize: Bloom Protocol API Overview
Sponsoring ETH SF Hackathon API Prize: Bloom Protocol API Overview
Bloom is sponsoring the API prize for the ETH SF Hackathon. We’ve built a strong developer ecosystem, supporting development on the Bloom…
Shannon Wu
Oct 4, 2018
The Results Are In — Bloom’s September 2018 Community Polls
The Results Are In — Bloom’s September 2018 Community Polls
Voting has concluded for the most recent round of community polls with over 250k BLT staked by voters! These questions were not only the…
Isaac Patka
Oct 2, 2018
Bloom Year One in Review
Bloom Year One in Review
What an exciting first year here at Bloom!
Shannon Wu
Sep 30, 2018
Uber and the Ongoing Battle Over Consumer Data Privacy
On Wednesday, California’s Attorney General, Xavier Becerra, announced that Uber has agreed to settle a nationwide investigation into its…
Shannon Wu
Sep 28, 2018
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