Canadian blockchain firm Equibit Group assembles advisory committees on board
Jun 12, 2017 12:16 pm UTC| Digital Currency
Canada-based Equibit Group, creator of the Equibit blockchain and blockchain applications for the global securities industry, announced that the company is assembling various committees of advisors to its board. The...
Blockchain startup Bancor Protocol announces new advisors and partners before token allocation event
Jun 12, 2017 11:30 am UTC| Digital Currency
Blockchain startup Bancor Protocol has announced a cohort of experts joining its Foundation as advisors. The list includes founding partner of Draper Associates and DFJ Tim Draper; Founders Fund investment team member...
R3’s open-source distributed ledger platform ‘Corda’ goes into public beta
Jun 12, 2017 11:03 am UTC| Digital Currency
R3, the financial innovation company that runs blockchain consortium, announced that its open-source, financial-grade, distributed ledger platform Corda has entered into first public beta. The release of the public beta...
Calastone completes blockchain PoC of distributed market infrastructure for global funds sector
Jun 12, 2017 09:55 am UTC| Digital Currency
Calastone, a global funds transaction network, has successfully completed the first phase of proof-of-concept (PoC) of its distributed market infrastructure. The PoC tested the feasibility using blockchain technology in...
Two climate action startups DAO IPCI and Chooose collaborate on blockchain technology
Jun 12, 2017 06:56 am UTC| Digital Currency
Two startups focusing on climate action have teamed up on blockchain technology in their fight against climate change. DAO IPCI, a decentralized autonomous organization operating, sustaining and developing the Integral...
Swedish state-owned energy company to test blockchain-based p2p energy trading
Jun 12, 2017 05:48 am UTC| Digital Currency
Vattenfall, a Swedish energy company wholly owned by the government, has announced that its energy trading division Business Area Markets has teamed up with 22 other European energy trading firms for conducting...
ObjectTech partners with Dubai Government's GDRFA to develop blockchain-based digital passports
Jun 12, 2017 05:26 am UTC| Digital Currency
UK-based ObjectTech Group has signed an agreement with Government of Dubai for its Immigration and Visas Department (GDRFA - General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs) project to develop digital passports by...
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