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ASX Developing New Blockchain-Based Platform With Digital Asset and VMWare
27.8.2019
The ASX (Australian Securities Exchange) is developing a new blockchain-based platform in partnership with companies Digital Asset and VMWare. This new platform will replace ASX’s existing registry, clearing and settlement system called CHESS (Clearing House Electronic Subregister System) by 2021....
NEC and Its Partners to Create Blockchain-Based Identity System in Buenos Aries
26.8.2019
The latest association between a nongovernmental organization (NGO), development bank, and a tech enterprise are looking at the formation of a blockchain-based identity framework to improve financial consideration in Buenos Aires. NGO Bitcoin Argentina, IDB Lab (the Innovation Laboratory of...
Bitcoin Cash Innovation Accelerates With Cashscript High-Level Language
26.8.2019
Software developers Rosco Kalis and Gabriel Cardona have been steadily working on Cashscript, a high-level programming language for Bitcoin Cash. When the language is tied to certain opcodes, specific schemes can be built that allow for autonomous and decision-based transactions. While testing...
Waves DEX Now Supports Ethereum-Based ERC-20 Tokens
25.8.2019
Waves DEX now supports ERC-20 standard compliant tokens
To Develop Blockchain-based Financial Services, Woori Partners with Kakao’s Blockchain- a Subsidiary of Ground X
22.8.2019
Woori Financial Group is a South Korean leading company in the financial services sector. Yesterday in a press release, it had announced its partnership with Kakao’s blockchain. (Kakao’s blockchain is a subsidiary of Ground X.) The objective of this partnership is to develop blockchain-backed...
San Francisco Non-profit Firm Unveils Blockchain-based Credit Database in Sierra Leone
22.8.2019
A technology non-profit firm based in San Francisco, called Kiva, has unveiled a credit database that is based on the blockchain technology in Sierra Leone, West Africa. The platform has been officially launched yesterday in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown with thorough involvement and compliance...
Taipei-Based Crypto Firm Maicoin Seeks Membership in Libra Association
21.8.2019
Taiwanese crypto trading platform Maicoin is seeking to join the Libra Association to participate in developing the Libra stablecoin
The World Bank’s Blockchain Bond Is Just a Fancy Way of Selling Debt
21.8.2019
Last year the World Bank and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia announced a permissioned Ethereum-based blockchain to facilitate the end-to-end issuance of bonds between financial partners. The Bretton Woods-created financial institution hopes to make debt capital markets far more efficient with...
Bitcoin’s Youngest Millionaire Launches Crypto-Based ‘Libra Killer’
20.8.2019
Crypto payment app Metal adds first non-native cryptocurrencies
Blockchain-Based Healthcare Firm Achieves Settlement with SEC Over Unregistered ICO
20.8.2019
According to the latest reports, the SEC, short for the Securities and Exchange Commission, has settled the charges with SimplyVital Health, Inc. The Commission had pressed an Administrative Proceeding against the company offering blockchain-based solutions for the healthcare industry in...
Malta Based Crypto Exchange – CGEX, Opened by Coinone is Closing its Operations
19.8.2019
CGEX, a Malta-based exchange opened by South Korea’s leading cryptocurrency exchange Coinone, not exactly a year back, is closing down its operations. As per its announcement posted a week ago, the exchange stated that all services would be closed on September 18 at 2:50 UTC. Subsequently...
BitPay Says Cryptocurrency Spending on Real Estate to Double in 2019
19.8.2019
BitPay processes about $5 million in bitcoin for real estate transactions through international and domestic individuals and firms
Bitcoin History Part 15: Silk Road Is Born
18.8.2019
Silk Road launched in February 2011 as the darknet’s first bitcoin-based marketplace. Within four months, it would be the darknet’s most notorious site whose reputation extended all the way to the U.S. Senate. The origins of the drugs marketplace can be traced back further, however,...
How Coinbase Quietly Became the World’s Biggest Bitcoin Bank
17.8.2019
On August 15, the San Francisco-based digital currency exchange Coinbase announced that it had acquired the cryptocurrency custody service Xapo’s institutional branch. The business move puts Coinbase in the limelight, making it the largest custodial service for digital assets worldwide, with...
Boxing Legend Mike Tyson Announces Launch of Blockchain-based Entertainment Platform
15.8.2019
Mike Tyson is well known for his capabilities inside the ring but going by the latest developments, it can be safely concluded that the award-winning boxer is quite deft in business skills too. The case in point is the newly announced entertainment platform: ‘Fight to Fame,’ which marks the entry...
Walmart Files Patent for Blockchain-Based Drone Communication System
15.8.2019
Walmart has filed a blockchain tech patent which focuses on using blockchain to facilitate communications between drones
Social Network Memo Adds Decentralized SLP Token Exchange
14.8.2019
The Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP), a token creation system built on top of the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network continues to mature as developers have released a number of third-party applications that support SLP tokens. Now the onchain, BCH-based social network Memo.cash has implemented an SLP token...
Contextual Utility Classes for Color with Custom Properties
14.8.2019
In CSS, we have the ability to access currentColor which is tremendously useful. Sadly, we do not have access to anything like currentBackgroundColor, and the color-mod() function is still a ways away.
With that said, I am sure I am not alone when I say I'd like to style some links based on...
Korea’s Oldest Bank Is Building a Blockchain-Based Security System
14.8.2019
South Korea’s oldest bank, Shinhan Bank, partnered with two other companies to develop a blockchain-based security solution
New Blockchain-Based Smart City Project Planned for Cambodian Capital
14.8.2019
A Singaporean startup, Limestone Network, is using blockchain to sustain a smart neighbourhood in Phnom Phen