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The World Economic Forum has teamed up with seven leading mining and metals companies to experiment, design and deploy blockchain solutions that will accelerate responsible sourcing and sustainability practices. advertisement Leading mining and metals companies have joined forces to accelerate responsible sourcing of raw materials with the World Economic Forum. The Mining and
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New York-based crypto custody startup Casa has released a new security protocol and service focused on helping people address the question of Bitcoin (BTC) inheritance.The new offering, dubbed “Casa Covenant,” was revealed in an official blog post on Oct. 21.“What happens to my Bitcoin when I die?”Casa approaches the
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Deutsche Bank Securities Services has successfully piloted a solution using distributed ledger technology (DLT) to enable further automation of custodial services – a solution which addresses the transparency requirements within many custodial services, such as around the tax processing of asset holdings at an ultimate beneficial owner level, and streamlines
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Vakt, a blockchain-based post-trade platform for commodities, has signed a memorandum of understanding with essDOCS, a firm that develops paperless trade solutions, to put European shipping on the blockchain.As markets and technology-focused outlet Benzinga reported on Sept. 20, Vakt and essDOCS will work on a blockchain-based solution that will
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Iota has introduced Chronicle, a permanode solution that will allow its node owners to easily store all of their transactions and maintain uninterrupted access to that data.Iota’s unlimited storage solutionOn Sept. 17, the Iota Foundation announced Chronicle, which allows node owners to store all the data of the Tangle
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Enterprise blockchain startup Kaleido, a part of ConsenSys’s venture studio, became the first to implement crypto privacy firm QEDIT’s zero-knowledge proof solution.An optional featureQEDIT claims in a press release shared with CryptoX on Sept. 15 that this partnership with Kaleido will enable its private asset transfer feature as an
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Electric Coin Company (ECC), which launched and supports the development of privacy-coin Zcash recently published a paper called: Halo: Recursive Proof Composition without a Trusted Setup.On Sept. 10, ECC announced in a blog post that engineer and cryptographer Sean Bowe had discovered a way of “creating practical, scalable and
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Mastercard partnered with blockchain firm R3 to develop a cross-border payment solution.According to a Mastercard press release published on Sept. 1, the two firms plan to pilot a new blockchain-enabled cross-border payment solution. The system will reportedly focus on connecting global faster payments infrastructures, schemes and banks.Multiple ways to
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Marc Andreessen, co-founder of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, said that cryptocurrencies could solve some of the internet’s biggest challenges.According to a report by The Wall Street Journal on Sept. 1, Andreessen made his statements at a private conference organized by Andreessen Horowitz and hosting officials from the United
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California-based blockchain development firm Baton Systems has closed a $12 million Series A funding round led by Trinity Ventures.According to a Ledger Insights report published Sept. 2, the new funding will be used to scale Baton Systems’ blockchain-powered bank-to-bank payment solution. Interoperability with legacy systemsBaton Systems has reported that it
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