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...
Cryptocurrency exchange Gatecoin to support ICONOMI’s ICN token trading
Oct 25, 2016 04:25 am UTC| Digital Currency
Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange Gatecoin.com has announced that it will be supportingICONOMI, an Ethereum based fund management platform, with the upcoming listing of ICONOMIs token (ICN) for trading on its...
Airbitz becomes first company to leverage JOBS Act using bitcoin
Oct 24, 2016 14:00 pm UTC| Digital Currency
Airbitz, the San Diego-based bitcoin wallet provider and creator of the Edge Security SDK, today announced the launch of its equity crowdfunding campaign powered byWefunder. Founded in 2011, Wefunder is a crowd...
FxWirePro: DASH/ USDT trades below USDT10, targets USDT9.22
Oct 24, 2016 12:50 pm UTC| Digital Currency
DASH/USDT is seen trading well below on Monday. The pair declined continuously for three trading session after jumping till USDT10.92 levels (Poloniex). It is currently trading around USDT9.98. Ichimoku analysis of...
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