Microsoft Azure announces support for Waves blockchain platform
May 10, 2017 05:09 am UTC| Digital Currency
Microsoft has announced its support for Waves, a decentralized platform for crowdfunding and creation of digital tokens, on its Azure marketplace. The Waves platform primarily seeks to enable easy creation and...
Blockchain project Fermat partners with Cicada
May 10, 2017 04:17 am UTC| Digital Currency
Fermat, the decentralised, blockchain and graphchain-enabled open source project developing the Internet of People (IoP), has announced its partnership with Cicada, a distributed direct democracy and decentralized...
Deloitte Luxembourg develops blockchain PoC ‘KYCStart’ to perform customer onboarding
May 10, 2017 04:17 am UTC| Digital Currency
Deloitte Luxembourg announced that it has developed Kick Start (KYCStart), which is a new blockchain proof-of-concept in order to perform customer onboarding. According to the reports by Finextra, the blockchain PoC...
Blockchain firm BTL Group progresses 2017 strategy of Interbit plaform
May 09, 2017 10:29 am UTC| Digital Currency
Blockchain technology firm BTL Group has provided a progress update and strategic outline for the rollout of its proprietary private blockchain platform Interbit, in a Beta version during the upcoming third quarter of this...
Blockchain project Cosmos partners with BOScoin
May 09, 2017 05:17 am UTC| Digital Currency
Cosmos, a project aiming to build an internet of blockchains, and BOScoin, the leading cryptocurrency platform in South Korea, have entered into a strategic partnership agreement to share resources, conduct research on...
Delaware Senators seek legal recognition for blockchain stocks and records
May 09, 2017 04:50 am UTC| Digital Currency
Senators in Delaware last week introduced a bill that aims to legally recognize electronic databases, including those created on distributed ledgers or blockchain, for the creation and maintenance of stock ledgers and...
Energy firms partner to foster blockchain deployment in energy industry
May 09, 2017 03:57 am UTC| Digital Currency
Rocky Mountain Institute, a nonprofit research and educational foundation, announced that energy companies have collaborated to support Energy Web Foundation (EWF) that aims to foster the commercial deployment of...
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