Blockchain real estate thought leader Avi Spielman joins Ubitquity’s advisory board
Dec 22, 2016 10:02 am UTC| Digital Currency
Ubitquity LLC, a blockchain-secured platform for real estate transactions, has announced the appointment of Avi Spielman to its growing advisory board. Spielman is founder and president of Joon Properties, a...
Dutch company Publicism taps blockchain to guarantee freedom of press
Dec 22, 2016 08:49 am UTC| Digital Currency
Publicism, a Dutch decentralized news medium enabling journalists to safely publish content, plans to leverage the potentials of blockchain technology in order to guarantee freedom of press, Bitcoin Magazine...
Royal Canadian Mint joins fintech company Goldmoney’s blockchain platfrom
Dec 22, 2016 06:23 am UTC| Digital Currency
The Royal Canadian Mint has partnered with the financial technology company Goldmoney Inc. in order to add its secure precious metal storage facility in Ottawa to the Goldmoney Network. With this collaboration, the...
Financial services giant State Street trials blockchain technology for securities lending
Dec 22, 2016 06:19 am UTC| Fintech
American worldwide financial services holding company State Street Corp has completed testing a blockchain system that will be used to streamline the securities lending process, since the financial sector hastens its...
R3’s Corda blockchain platform available on Microsoft Azure
Dec 22, 2016 05:27 am UTC| Digital Currency
Microsofts Project Bletchley has announced the availability of R3s Cordaon Azure, an open, flexible, enterprise-grade cloud computing platform. The announcement follows Cordas release to the open source community last...
Hyperledger blockchain consortium welcomes Swisscom
Dec 22, 2016 05:03 am UTC| Fintech
Swiss telecom giant Swisscom announced that it is the first Swiss member to join the global blockchain Hyperledger Project that is being supported by over 100 companies including IBM, Intel, and JP Morgan, among others....
Lisk blockchain project announces successful registration of Swiss non-profit foundation
Dec 22, 2016 05:01 am UTC| Digital Currency
Lisk, the decentralized blockchain application platform, is concluding an already eventful 2016 with major news. On the heels of achieving first milestone of mainchain stabilization in Inception phase, the startup has...
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