Blockchain

30-second summary: IAB Tech Lab launches new guide, intended to help organizations assess blockchain for various kinds of ad-related shared ledger solutions, such as measurement, reconciliation, transparency, contract consensus and ad delivery valida…

A New Year’s letter from Square Enix president Yosuke Matsuda outlines the trends the company expects to play a part in 2020, noting some particular developments it is keeping a watchful eye in the new year. In that letter, he notes that 2020 is particularly …

Almost 50 per cent of American millennials expect all products to be GMO-free, 43 per cent expect organic, 64 per cent sustainable and 56 per cent recyclable, according to a survey conducted by SONAR. This year will see a diversity of players converge from v…

When Ken Brook founded the blockchain ad-tech startup MetaX in early 2017, the notion of applying the decentralized ledger system behind cryptocurrency to the ills of digital advertising was still relatively novel. A prolonged rally in the price of bitcoin ha…

Crypto in 2020s: at least one blockchain will reach 1B users, a separate world of fully-decentralized, little-regulated crypto-to-crypto innovation will emerge (Brian Armstrong/The Coinbase Blog)

Two young Mongolian children play with the goats that provide cashmere. Photo provided by Convergence.tech With wild price changes in cryptocurrencies, sometimes it can be helpful to get back to use cases: areas where distributed nodes and decentralization…

IBM-backed distributed ledger startup Hedera Hashgraph asks investors to opt into waiting longer for purchased tokens, to help stabilize their cratering price (Paddy Baker/CoinDesk)

Diversity in Blockchain Since the introduction of bitcoin in 2009, blockchain technology has been heralded as the great democratizer because of its ability to enable parties to transfer value directly without the need for middlemen. In the last decade, block…

As far as cryptocurrencyscams go, OneCoin is probably the one that rules them all. US prosecutors have alleged that the Ponzi scheme raked in approximately $4 billion, defrauding investors from all over the globe. In China alone, law enforcement agents reco…

This the first in a series of articles seeking to profile early entrants into the space of blockchain in financial services.Five years is a long time in blockchain. During this time, the industry has seen blockchain providers come and go and the early exubera…