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WEF, Mining Giants Develop Blockchain Platform for Tracking Carbon Emissions
15.12.2020
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has finalized a platform that tracks CO2 emissions during mining processes using blockchain
Business Giants Invest USD 60m in Blockchain-powered Payment Firm Chai
11.12.2020
Screenshots of the Chai app. A group of South Korean and Japanese business giants including Hanhwa Investment & Securities, SoftBank and SK have joined more established blockchain investors to complete a Series B investment round worth over USD 60m in South Korean firm Chai, the provider of...
3 Chinese E-Commerce Giants Join China’s Latest Digital Yuan Lottery Trial: Report
11.12.2020
Didi, Meituan and Bilibili are reportedly taking part in the latest test of the digital yuan, allowing lottery winners to spend the digital currency online
Shopping.io Enables Crypto-Payments on Popular E-Commerce Websites
12.11.2020
PRESS RELEASE. The adoption of crypto is not possible without accelerating its usage as a currency, and not only as an asset. While e-commerce giants such as Amazon, eBay, and Walmart aren’t able to offer crypto-payment, Shopping.io launches a gateway to make purchases from the aforementioned...
Corporate giants may not follow MicroStrategy's Bitcoin adoption play, Raoul Pal explains
3.11.2020
Communication is key, especially when it comes to explaining Bitcoin to mainstream corporate entities
Partisan dunks eclipse Section 230 in Senate hearing on social media giants
28.10.2020
Though the hearing did not focus on solutions, open source looks like a real way of addressing the committee's concerns about transparency and accountability
Agriculture giants team up on blockchain platform to track grains in Brazil
16.10.2020
Two massive companies have teamed to create a blockchain platform to manage the agriculture sector and its first test was in Brazil
Italian Payments Giants Merging to Form New Entity That Will Dominate Local Market
5.10.2020
The new group will reportedly have an estimated 70% share of the Italian market
Keiser Insists ‘Bitcoin Inversely Correlated To USD Not Stock Markets’ After Crypto Market Tumble
23.9.2020
Reports that global banking giants helped criminals launder money for close to two decades helped spark the crash of global stock markets on Monday, September 21. Also tumbling in tandem with stocks were cryptocurrencies thus leading to renewed concerns that digital assets are intertwined with...
Leak Alleges Banking Giants 'Moving Staggering Sums of Illicit Cash'
21.9.2020
Documents uncovered by an investigation conducted by 110 news organizations appears to show global banking giants moving trillions of dollars for clients allegedly involved in fraud, embezzlement, money laundering and more, as the banks defend themselves against the allegations. Meanwhile,...
Report: Market Valuation of 14 Banking Giants Shed $635 Billion This Year
16.9.2020
The world’s largest banks lost a considerable amount of market valuation amid the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new report that estimates financial incumbents lost $635 billion. Between December 2019 and August 2020, the market caps of 14 major banking institutions lost upwards of 30-50%...
Chinese Tech Giants to ‘Do Battle’ for Blockchain Talent + More News
9.9.2020
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
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A Chinese blockchain talent acquisition battle has begun, with heavyweight tech giants like Tencent, Baidu and Alibaba in direct...
Blockchain ID ‘War’ in the Offing as S Korean Giants Prepare Rollouts
8.9.2020
South Koreans are likely to completely do away with plastic ID, social security and driver’s license cards in favor of blockchain technology-powered digital alternatives, per a new report – with some of the biggest companies in the land vying for a stake in the market.
Per Fn News, SK Telecom,...
Asian Search Engine & Chat App Giants to Use Blockchain-based IDs + More News
3.9.2020
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South Korean internet giants Naver and Kakao will begin accepting blockchain-powered digital driver’s licenses as a form of ID...
Payment giants drive crypto adoption by engaging with startups
3.9.2020
Companies like Visa and Mastercard are taking an interest in crypto startups to drive growth, but does this challenge the fundamentals of crypto?
Cryptoverse in Chaos: Giants Race for New DeFi Darling Curve, Yam Plots Comeback
14.8.2020
The governance token CRV of Curve, exchange liquidity pool on Ethereum (ETH), was launched prematurely by an anonymous 'Chad,' and major exchanges moved to list it, as numerous theories are flying around, while YAM announced its transition to 2.0. This all happened in a matter of hours.
The...
Google, Facebook, Twitter Face Class-Action Lawsuit for Banning Crypto Ads
20.7.2020
Cryptocurrency businesses are taking Google, Facebook, and Twitter to court in a class-action lawsuit that could cost the social media giants $300 billion. The plaintiffs say that their businesses have been hurt by Google, Facebook, and Twitter banning crypto ads on their platforms. Google...
Shipping Giants Piloting Blockchain to Improve Efficiency
12.7.2020
The Port of Rotterdam, along with global shipping giants, launches blockchain pilot to improve container handling’s safety and efficiency
Neo Founder Says Next-Gen Internet Will Break Up Tech Giants’ Data Silos
7.7.2020
The founder of blockchain platform Neo, Hongfei Da, discussed the importance of next-generation internet at Unitize
John Perry Barlow: A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
4.7.2020
Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather. We have no elected government,...