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EU-Funded Acceleration Project, LEDGER, Offering Support Services and Up to €200k Equity-Free for Blockchain Data Governance Projects

Pan-European acceleration program for human-centric solutions LEDGER has kicked off its second open call – aimed at innovative projects building blockchain and other DLT supported solutions for data governance.  advertisement So far, the European Commission has invested more than €80 million in blockchain projects for societal use. By 2020, the European Commission

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Æternity Blockchain Developers Plan to Take On Ethereum With Final Hardfork – Handing over Governance to the Community

Popular open-source blockchain protocol Æternity is going forward with its LIMA hard fork, releasing the latest software to miners and handing over governance to the community. Æternity is one of the most active blockchain developer communities measured by code activity. advertisement “æternity grew from a team of core developers to an ecosystem built

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Researchers Claim Cross-border B2B Blockchain Transactions set to Explode to $4.4 Trillion by 2024

A fresh report from Juniper Research claims the total value of B2B cross-border payments stored on the blockchain will exceed $4.4 trillion by 2024 – a massive increase from the mere $171 billion in 2019.  advertisement According to research author, Dr Morgane Kimmich: “The implementation of blockchain is part of a wider strategy

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Microsoft Kicks Off Enterprise-ready Crypto Token Platform On Azure – Predicts Tokenization Is A Pillar Of The Coming Revolution In Multi-Party Applications That Blockchain Technology Ushered In

Tech behemoth Microsoft let loose the news of their launch of the Azure Blockchain Tokens platform on Monday, November 4, 2019 –  during the Microsoft Ignite conference in Orlando, Florida. During the kickoff in Florida, Gray stated that tokens that are ready for use by enterprises are now a time-consuming

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Polish-British Blockchain Company Billon to Digitise Euro in Deal with Raiffeisen Bank International

Long-time Polish-UK trans-European project Billon has recently been selected by Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) to showcase their technology in the bank’s Elevator Lab Partnership Program. The awarded idea, presented during the final qualification round on 17 October 2019 in Vienna, is a distributed ledger technology (DLT) based digital cash platform

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500.com Limited Releases Intel on Blockchain Technology for China’s Lottery Industry

About Richard KasteleinFounder and publisher of industry publication Blockchain News (EST 2015), a partner at ICO services collective Token.Agency ($750m+ and 90+ ICOs and STOs), director of education company Blockchain Partners (Oracle Partner) – Vancouver native Richard Kastelein is an award-winning publisher, innovation executive and entrepreneur. He sits on the

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Oxfam, Etherisc, and Aon Find Success with First Blockchain-Based Agricultural Insurance Policies for Smallholder Farmers in Sri Lanka

Oxfam in Sri Lanka, the organization working to alleviate poverty, revolutionary Blockchain project Etherisc, an InsurTech startup developing a protocol for decentralized insurance applications and Aon plc, the leading global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement, and health solutions, have succeeded in the delivery of the

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Samsung Bullish on Blockchain – Pushing for Developers on New Samsung Blockchain Platform SDK

Samsung has been, behind the scenes, building a variety of blockchain-powered services aiming to capitalize on the emerging market of cryptocurrency and blockchain services – From cryptocurrency wallets to DApps. advertisement Earlier in the year, Samsung announced the Samsung Blockchain Wallet App, along with the blockchain-enabled flagship Galaxy S10 to allow transactions

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Zilliqa and Oxford Women in Computer Science Society Join to Bring Diversity to Blockchain Sector

Zilliqa, the high-throughput public blockchain platform is running a series of blockchain education workshops, with the University of Oxford, in the UK in order to champion greater diversity and inclusion across the sector. The workshops are being launched with the Oxford Women in Computer Science Society (OxWoCS) and will be

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Blockchain Gaming Project Immutable Sells out US$6.2 Million Genesis Sale

Blockchain company Immutable, who build video games with player-owned assets, closed off the “Genesis Sale” for their game Gods Unchained, the highest-grossing and most popular blockchain game since its announcement in July of last year. In an announcement declaring the end of the sale, the developers also shared details about

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