The Italian Senate has introduced blockchain terms into existing laws through amendments. Referred to as the ‘Decreto Semplificazioni’ or Simplications Decree 2019, it represents the primary regulatory transfer within the blockchain house. This is also regarded as the Italian government’s initial steps towards regulation. The amendment, according to Breaking News, supplies elementary trade phrases reminiscent […]

ING, the Dutch banking giant, now has access to unlimited Corda Enterprise licenses after signing a five year deal with R3, blockchain technology provider. The deal also allows ING to use Corda Enterprise throughout its various operations worldwide. According to a press release by R3, the Dutch bank will be able to adopt CorDapps across […]

Bitfury, the firm that had made a foothold in Bitcoin mining, has ventured into the music industry with its own open-source platform, Bitfury Surround. The Chief Executive Officer of Bitfury, Valery Vavilov said the music entertainment industry has evolved into a complex, competitive and technologically-driven environment. Vavilov said they want to incentivize the growth of […]

International banking giant, HSBC is the latest to be sucked into the blockchain vortex. HSBC revealed that it has made over three million forex trades in 2018 with about 150,000 payments via FX Everywhere, its proprietary blockchain. Richard Bibbey, the acting head of currencies at HSBC said the bank conducted thousands of foreign exchange transactions […]

The Distributed Technologies Research (DTR), non-profit foundation, has launched a globally scalable decentralized payments network, known as ‘Unit-e’. Babak Dastmaltschi, Chairman of the DTR Foundation Council said advancements in distributed technologies will enable open networks, avoiding the need for centralized authorities. Dastmaltschi said blockchain and digital currency markets are at an interesting crossroads. “We are […]

WWF of Australia has declared that it has started a blockchain built tool for tracking supply chain. The tool is developed jointly by WWF and BCG Digital Venture, a Boson based firm dealing with corporate investment and incubation. The tool developed is named as OpenSC, it will help the consumer and the business to keep […]

Blockstream, blockchain based company is all set to launch its beta variant of satellite API. The company is reported to launch the satellite to help the developers in broadcasting data. The announcement about the launch was made on 16th of January 2019, by the company. The company has put a step forward toward their satellite […]

WWF Australia and BCG Digital Ventures collaboration have come up with a blockchain powered food tracking platform, OpenSC, as part of their effort for a legal and safe environment. While launching the new platform in Sydney today, the WWF-Australia Chief Executive Officer Dermot O’Gorman said the OpenSC will bring about a new level of transparency. […]

With over two million solar panels installed across Australia, the people are coming up with smart options to sell that extra energy to the neighbor. And one of the lucrative solutions is peer-to-peer (p2p) solar network trading. According to experts, p2p allows consumers to bargain their excess power for profit. One of the plus factors […]

Largest cargo shipping company of Israel, Zim has open blockchain based billing platform for all its customers for loading the ship with cargo for trades. The shipping company was taking a trial of blockchain based eB/Ls platform for about a year and has got success in it. The company representative said that the blockchain could […]