Inaugural Token Summit to delve into blockchain-based tokenized economy on May 25
Apr 26, 2017 04:32 am UTC| Digital Currency
Renowned blockchain author, investor, and entrepreneur, William Mougayar is organizing Token Summit, a conference dedicated to discussing the emerging blockchain-based tokenized economy a phenomenon experiencing an...
Blockchain platform Coinfirm joins SEI’s new Regtech incubator ‘Codify’
Apr 25, 2017 12:25 pm UTC| Digital Currency Fintech
SEI, a tech solution provider in the financial market, has added blockchain platform Coinfirm, risk-assessment firm Neuroprofiler and Enforcd, which uses enforcement data, news, and insights to better identify regulatory...
Leading global banks join SWIFT to develop blockchain PoC
Apr 25, 2017 11:18 am UTC| Digital Currency
Interbank messaging network SWIFT has collaborated with worlds leading transaction banks to develop the proof of concept (PoC) application to test blockchain technology. Early this year, SWIFT announced the launch of...
CapitalWave launches ‘Blockchain Academy’ to offer online video training courses
Apr 25, 2017 09:57 am UTC| Digital Currency
Global financial training solutions provider CapitalWave, Inc. officially launched The Blockchain Academy platform that offers online video training courses covering the potentials and wide impacts of blockchain...
Blockchain startup Humaniq brings BBC's The Apprentice winner Tim Campbell MBE to advisory board
Apr 25, 2017 07:35 am UTC| Digital Currency
Humaniq, a blockchain startup focused on financial inclusion, has announced that former winner of Lord Alan Sugars BBC TV Show The Apprentice Tim Campbell MBE has joined its advisory board. The announcement comes on the...
Blockchain project Antshares explains reasons for choosing dBFT over PoW and PoS
Apr 25, 2017 06:38 am UTC| Digital Currency
Blockchain-based project Antshares explains why it chose the delegated Byzantine Fault Tolerance alternative (or dBFT) over Proof-of-Work (PoW) and Proof-of-Stake (PoS): With the phenomenal success of Bitcoin and its...
Former blockchain head at BHP Billiton joins ConsenSys as director of energy and consulting
Apr 25, 2017 06:29 am UTC| Digital Currency
ConsenSys, a production studio building decentralized applications for blockchain ecosystems, has appointed Dr. R. Tyler Smith, PhD, the former head of blockchain at BHP Billiton, as the companys director of energy and...
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