R3 blockchain consortium adds credit card company Synchrony Financial
Oct 25, 2016 05:52 am UTC| Digital Currency
Financial service company Synchrony Financial has joined financial innovation firm R3 in a move to design and apply distributed and shared ledger-inspired technologies to global financial markets. According to the...
R3 trials Ripple’s blockchain technology for interbank cross-border payments
Oct 25, 2016 05:41 am UTC| Digital Currency
Financial innovation firm R3, along with twelve of its blockchain consortium member banks, recently trialed Ripples distributed financial technology and the potential for its digital asset to scale liquidity and reduce the...
Chamber of Digital Commerce to host Smart Contracts Symposium in December
Oct 25, 2016 05:11 am UTC| Digital Currency
The Smart Contracts Alliance, an initiative by the Chamber of Digital Commerce, is hosting the worlds first event dedicated to smart contracts Smart Contracts Symposium onDecember 5, 2016in New York. Nick Szabo,...
Hyperledger adds 10 new members to support open source distributed ledger framework
Oct 25, 2016 04:59 am UTC| Digital Currency
The Linux Foundations Hyperledger project has announced that 10 new members have joined the project in order to help create anopen standard for distributed ledgers for a new generation of transactional applications. The...
First pharma blockchain conference to be held in New Jersey
Oct 24, 2016 09:10 am UTC| Digital Currency Fintech
The Pharma Blockchain Bootcampwill be held on November 16, 2016, in Edison, New Jersey, and will seespeaker line-up of blockchain leaders from leading health innovators including Michael Dillhyon of YouBase, Leonard Kish...
CBA, Wells Fargo and Brighann Cotton undertake first global trade transaction using blockchain
Oct 24, 2016 06:18 am UTC| Digital Currency
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), Wells Fargo, and Brighann Cotton have pioneered the first global trade transaction between two independent banks by combining blockchain technology, smart contracts, and Internet...
Blockchain startup Coins rakes in $5m in series A funding
Oct 24, 2016 05:30 am UTC| Digital Currency
Coins, a digital payments and blockchain startup, has raised US$5 millionin a series A funding round led by the Accion Frontier Inclusion Fund, managed by Quona Capital, and also drawing support fromEric SchmidtsInnovation...
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