Blockchain Trade Finance Is Breaking Proof-of-Concept Gridlock After years of tests and concepts, enterprise blockchain may be having a breakthrough moment, with several notable trials in trade finance advancing.… Read More
ICBC’s First Blockchain Patent Is Now Public Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, a major state-owned bank, is exploring how to verify and share users’ certificates on a blockchain.… Read More
Mastercard Seeks ‘Fast Track’ Way to Sync Blockchain Data A Mastercard patent application outlines how nodes could be quickly added to a blockchain.… Read More
Banking Giant ING Is Quietly Becoming a Serious Blockchain Innovator Dutch bank ING, which made a splash last year with a modification to zero-knowledge proofs, is adding another innovative wrinkle to privacy in DLT.… Read More
Binance, Bermuda Ink $15 Million Crypto Investment Agreement Bermuda has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Binance to develop a global compliance center in the British Overseas Territory.… Read More
Alibaba Advances Blockchain Food Fraud Platform to Pilot Phase Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is trialling a blockchain-based tracking system developed to make its supply chain more transparent.… Read More
IBM Reimagines Proof-of-Work for Blockchain IoT Devices Your smart lightbulb can’t crush hashes at the rate of a giant mining farm, so how can it stay secure? The answer might be in the nonce.… Read More
Sony Eyes Blockchain Use for Digital Rights Data Sony believes a blockchain can be used as a digital rights management solution by storing ownership information.… Read More
Barclays, Goldman Champion ISDA Standard for Blockchain Derivatives U.K.-based bank Barclays is pushing hard for a data standard for derivatives, as a foundation for that market to adopt distributed ledger technology.… Read More
Fitch Ratings: Blockchain Is a Potential ‘Game-Changer’ for Insurers Fitch Ratings published a report Wednesday noting that blockchain can be a long-term solution to issues facing the insurance industry today.… Read More