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The Maltese government has awarded 19 students blockchain scholarships worth a total of 160,000 euro ($179,000), local publication the Malta Independent reports May 23.The scholarships were granted by Silvio Schembri, Parliamentary Secretary for Financial Services, Digital Economy and Innovation, using the $351,000 scholarship fund that was set up by
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Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba will integrate blockchain technology into its intellectual property system of global enterprises and brands, local news outlet Sohu reported on May 23.Ali Xizhi, the company’s director of intellectual property protection, reportedly said that Alibaba is in the process of upgrading the filing of intellectual property
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San Francisco-based blockchain domains firm Unstoppable Domains has secured $4 million in a funding round backed by venture capitalist Tim Draper, co-founder Brad Kam told Cointelegraph in an email on May 23.Following a $730,000 seed round led by investment firm Boost VC, Unstoppable Domains has carried out a Series
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The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) has detailed several blockchain use cases relevant to the real estate industry in a report shared with Cointelegraph on May 23.The document is reportedly the result of several months of work by the group’s members, which includes over 50 real estate companies. The report
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Epic Games, the company that developed successful videogame Fortnite, announced that it has partnered with blockchain game distribution platform The Abyss in a press release shared with Cointelegraph on May 23.The press release notes that the partnership will allow developers on the platform access to the Unreal Developers Network.
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The South Korean Ministry of Science and ICT is going to run a follow-up study on blockchain regulations, according to a Yonhap News report on May 21.The study is called the “Blockchain Regulation Improvement Study Group” and is part of an initiative run by the government’s science and tech arm
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A group of four banks have successfully issued a promissory note — a type of legally binding loan agreement — through a new blockchain platform, a news release on May 21 announced.The financial institutions used finledger to complete the transaction. According to Helaba, one of the banks involved, the platform reduces the
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Facebook has registered a new financial technology company in Switzerland which will be focussing on blockchain and payments, Reuters reported citing Geneva’s commercial register. The formation of the new company comes amid the speculation that the social media giant is preparing to announce its own cryptocurrency. As per the report, Libra Networks was
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CULedger, a blockchain consortium and credit union service organization (CUSO), has chosen enterprise software firm R3’s Corda blockchain to underpin its forthcoming cross-border payments product. The news was reported by fintech news outlet Finextra on May 21.As reported, CULedger joined the R3 global blockchain ecosystem in December 2018.The blockchain
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By CCN: Sweden’s Felix Kjellberg AKA PewDiePie, YouTube’s most popular streamer, has been up and running on cryptocurrency startup DLive for a little over a month and is already drawing in the crowds.DLive’s subscriber numbers are already up 67% since PewDiePie joined the platform. The company has not released official
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