Blockchain adtech company StormX raises $16.5M in private pre-sale
Oct 05, 2017 09:16 am UTC| Digital Currency
StormX, a blockchain, adtech, and micro-task company, has raised approximately $16.5 million from accredited investors in a private pre-sale of its ERC-20 token, STORM token. Several members of StormXs Board of...
MAS-backed consortium develops blockchain prototypes for inter-bank payments
Oct 05, 2017 08:25 am UTC| Digital Currency Fintech
A consortium led by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) has developed software prototypes of three different models for decentralised inter-bank payment and settlements...
Malta taps blockchain technology for academic record management system
Oct 05, 2017 05:49 am UTC| Digital Currency
The Government of Malta is launching the first nation-state pilot for storing official records of learners and workers on a blockchain. According to the official release, the Ministry for Education and Employment of the...
Four major banks join UBS and IBM to build blockchain trade finance platform
Oct 05, 2017 05:10 am UTC| Digital Currency
Four leading financial institutions have joined the initiative launched by UBS and IBM to build a blockchain-based global trade platform. Dubbed Batavia, the new platform advances the work initiated by UBS and IBM last...
ICONOMI welcomes blockchain luminaries as Digital Asset Array Managers
Oct 05, 2017 04:02 am UTC| Digital Currency
ICONOMI, a digital asset management platform, has roped in blockchain and investment luminaries William Mougayar, Arnold Sternberg, and Kenny Hearn in its series of Digital Asset Array (DAA) managers. The announcement...
R3 rolls out v1.0 of Corda distributed ledger platform
Oct 04, 2017 06:44 am UTC| Digital Currency
R3, an enterprise software firm leading a blockchain consortium of major global banks, has launched version 1.0 of its Corda distributed ledger platform. According to the official release, the platforms codebase has...
Former head of Swisscom’s Digital Lab Dr Vlad Trifa joins blockchain food ecosystem Ambrosus
Oct 04, 2017 05:30 am UTC| Digital Currency
Ambrosus, a blockchain-based ecosystem for the supply chain, has announced that Dr. Vlad Trifa is officially joining the company as Chief Product Officer. A veteran of the IoT industry, Dr. Trifa formerly served as Head...
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