Mediachain to build an open media library; receives seed funding from blockchain VCs
Jun 02, 2016 05:30 am UTC| Digital Currency
New York based Mediachain; an open source platform using blockchain technology to track media ownership has received funding from two largest VC investors in blockchain, Union Square Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz to...
Blockchain entertainment studio SingularDTV teams up with ConsenSys
Jun 02, 2016 05:28 am UTC| Digital Currency
SingularDTV(S-DTV), a first-of-its-kind blockchain entertainment studio, is entering into a partnership with ConsenSys, a developer of decentralized applications and end-user tools for blockchain ecosystems, to build a...
Ethereum is poised to be the leading blockchain: Bitwage President
Jun 02, 2016 04:40 am UTC| Digital Currency
Digital assets exchange Uphold delivered its promise by adding support for Ether on its platform, which followed the support for Litecoin rolled out in May. Jorge Pereira, Executive Vice President, Chief Product ...
QIWI to create a blockchain consortium of Russian banks, says report
Jun 01, 2016 12:35 pm UTC| Digital Currency
Russian publication Izvestia reported that QIWI, publicly traded Russian payment service provider will create a consortium of Russian banks which will develop standards for the application of blockchain...
BigchainDB introduces internet-scale blockchain database IPDB
Jun 01, 2016 12:04 pm UTC| Digital Currency
BigchainDB, a scalable blockchain database, has announced the launch of the Interplanetary Database (IPDB) an internet-scale blockchain database for the world. Blockchain technology is enabling a decentralized world...
State Street Survey sees need for more blockchain education
Jun 01, 2016 11:54 am UTC| Digital Currency
State Street Corporation conducted a new research earlier this year on blockchain technology that unveiled saying, only 7% of asset owners and asset managers currently has initiatives underway to support the distributed...
Sberbank working on blockchain-based IT-platform
Jun 01, 2016 11:15 am UTC| Digital Currency
According to latest reports, Sberbank, one of the largest banks of Russia, has plans to complete the creation of a new blockchain-based IT-platform by the end of 2018, Forklog reported. In an interview with TV channel...
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