South Africa’s Central Bank Claims Success in Blockchain Payment Trial South Africa Reserve Bank indicates that tests of a blockchain-based system for interbank clearance and settlement produced astonishing results.… Read More
Fujitsu Rolls Out System That Turns Reward Points into Blockchain Tokens Fujitsu is launching a blockchain data processing system for retail merchants that tokenizes traditional promotion tools like coupons and stamps. … Read More
Lawmaker Wants New York State to Pilot Local Cryptocurrencies A bill introduced by New York Assemblyman Ron Kim would launch pilot programs testing cryptocurrencies as a community monetary system.… Read More
China Has Built a Blockchain System That Could Replace Paper Checks China’s central bank has completed a blockchain-based system that digitizes checks in a move to counter fraud in the country.… Read More
Telecoms Giant Wants to Move Mobile Data Top-Ups to a Blockchain China Mobile, one of China’s three state-owned telecoms giants, is exploring moving part of its mobile data business to a distributed ledger.… Read More
Meet the Dapp Market: A Twist On Open Source Is Winning Developers Two ethereum-based bounty marketplaces are beginning to take off, and are hoping to take the decentralized application (dapp) space with them. … Read More
How Hodl Hodl Is Building a Real Business With Bitcoin Smart Contracts In an era where many startups are taking more complex transactions to other blockchains, Hodl Hodl is focused on making them work on the bitcoin.… Read More
Save the World? Blockchain’s Big Dreams Come Back to Earth in DC “It’s about being demand driven instead of supply driven.” … Read More
Mastercard Looks to Blockchain to Make Coupons Immutable A patent application from Mastercard suggests that the payments giant is eyeing blockchain as part of a way to verify the authenticity of coupons.… Read More
British FX Firm Currencies Direct Pilots Ripple Tech Foreign exchange brokerage Currencies Direct successfully completed several international transfers using Ripple’s xRapid product.… Read More