FEMA Advisory Board Proposes Blockchain to Speed ‘Disaster Dividend’ Payouts
The NAC argued that blockchain could improve the speed of payouts communities rely on in the wake of natural disasters. Source
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Visa’s Rolls Out New Blockchain LucidiTEE – Tackles Concerns related to misuse of sensitive user data, when shared with third-parties.
Visa’s LucidiTEE claims to be the first system to enable multiple parties to jointly compute on large-scale private data while guaranteeing policy-compliance even when the input providers are offline and allows fairness to all output recipients. The project, from the research arm of Visa – aims to take on growing
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Chinese Army’s Blockchain Provider Approved for New Hyperledger Certification Program
Hyperledger green-lit a Beijing-based firm that serves the Chinese army to join its new certification program, as military blockchain use expands. Source
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Nestle, Carrefour Extend Blockchain Tracking Effort to Baby Milk
Nestle and Carrefour are using IBM's Food Trust blockchain platform to track organic baby milk products "from dairy to shelf." Source
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Northern Trust Testing Fractionalized Bonds on Blockchain
The U.S.-based custody bank is looking to offer fractions of tokenized bonds to retail and small professional investors. Source
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Dutch Police Bust CEO of Blockchain Game Firm, Komodore64 – €78 million Gone?
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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Volvo Cars to implement blockchain traceability of cobalt used in electric car batteries
Volvo Cars will become the first carmaker to blockchain technology in order to globally trace the cobalt used in its batteries. advertisement “We have always been committed to an ethical supply chain for our raw materials,” said Martina Buchhauser, head of procurement at Volvo Cars. “With blockchain technology, we can take the
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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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