Blockchain

An entrepreneur’s guide to South Korea’s blockchain tech scene

Theres a lot of speculation around whether blockchain technology will fundamentally transform the regulatory processes and requirements for companies raising money on public markets but that may not be the best way to frame the conversation. The rise of blo…

Shrimp is the latest foodstuff to make its way to the blockchain, courtesy of IBM. The Sustainable Shrimp Partnership (SSP) yesterday announced that its joined IBMs Food Trust ecosystem which claims to use blockchain to provide greater transparency over wher…

Back in 2016, enterprise private blockchain was a new, unfamiliar idea. There were not many major players in the private permissioned blockchain space; a big name was IBM, whose contributions to Hyperledger Fabric has since brought its tech in front of the li…

Enlarge/ Mark Zuckerberg in 2016. 3 with 3 posters participating Facebook is looking to raise as much as a billion dollars for a new cryptocurrency-based payment network that could compete directly with conventional credit cards, the Wall Street Journal rep…

JP Morgan and Microsoft have formed a strategic partnership to promote the adoption of enterprise blockchain, reports Jane Connolly. Developed by JP Morgan, Quorum  an enterprise-variant of the Ethereum blockchain  will be the first distributed ledger platfo…

Microsoft and American bank JP Morgan are teaming up to make it easier to put enterprise businesses on the blockchain. Yesterday, Microsoft announced, that its partnered with the American banking giant to try to spearhead the adoption of JPMs enterprise vari…

In the two years since GrainChain launched its distributed ledger-based transaction platform for bulk dry goods the company has brokered thousands of contracts on everything from corn, sorghum, wheat, and soybeans to even sand from its headquarters in McAllen…

Ethereums creators wanted to create a platform that would allow users all over the world to write decentralized applications, and use the Ethereum ETH blockchain as what it calls a world computer. Ethereum made smart contracts a common part of the blockchain…

Union Square Ventures, a venture capital firm known for early bets in Twitter, Etsy and Tumblr, has $450 million in capital commitments to plow into the next generation of technology startups. The capital, which comes in just above the $429 million USV filed…