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U.S. berry producer California Giant Berry Farms joined the blockchain-based food tracking solution IBM Food Trust.Fruit and vegetable news outlet The Packer reported on May 17 that California Giant will use a blockchain to share data between all the points of its supply chain. The firm employs Glassbit’s Glasschain IBM
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Harry Potter author JK Rowling has become inundated with bitcoin insight and cryptocurrency explanations when she tweeted asking someone to explain to her what bitcoin was. Tesla CEO Elon Musk was among those trying to explain bitcoin to Rowling. He believes that bitcoin is “solid” compared to governments’ fiat
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JPMorgan, America’s largest bank with a staggering $2.6 million in assets, has inked a deal with leading Bitcoin (BTC) trading venues, Coinbase and Gemini exchange. JPMorgan will now offer the two exchanges banking services including deposit, withdrawal and transfers with Automated Clearing House (ACH) infrastructure, according to a Forbes report
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Singapore-based multinational banking firm DBS Bank has joined the blockchain trade-finance network Contour, which is built over R3’s Corda. Contour is due for a main-launch later this year.According to a May 11 report by the business news outlet The Business Times, DBS Bank is the first bank from Singapore to
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Klaytn, the public blockchain platform developed by Ground X, an affiliate of the major South Korean internet company, Kakao, joined Celo’s Alliance for Prosperity on May 8.Celo, a distributed ledger technology, or DLT, based decentralized application and stablecoin platform and prominent rival to Facebook’s Libra project, has now attracted nearly
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University College London’s Centre for Blockchain Technologies (UCL CBT) has joined the governing council for enterprise-grade distributed ledger platform Hedera Hashgraph.Paolo Tasca — former cryptocurrency lead economist at Germany’s central bank, Deutsche Bundesbank, and founder of UCL CBT — confirmed that the university is the first academic institution to join
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Ripple has become a member of the ISO 20022 standards body, which is driving a new data standard for payments and data messaging between global financial institutions.The company claims to be the first distributed ledger technology (DLT) focused member of the group, which includes a number of international commercial and
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Security tokens platform TokenSoft has joined the U.S.-based crypto lobbying group Blockchain Association (BA).The San Francisco-based token issuance platform said in an official announcement on April 27 that it would be entering the D.C.-based organization to “educate regulators and elected officials on the advantages of utilizing blockchain technology and the
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The Wall Street Blockchain Alliance, or WSBA, announced on April 23 that the proof-of-stake cryptocurrency platform, Algorand, has joined their alliance as a corporate member.According to the post, Algorand is teaming up with many of the tech and finance companies that are working with the WSBA. Their goal is to
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A group of Dutch software engineers and blockchain privacy advocates at the Dutch DigiByte Blockchain Foundation have come together to build an app for contact tracing
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