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Japanese Housing Giant to Begin Blockchain-powered Home Rentals
9.6.2020
Sekisui House, Japan’s biggest housebuilder, says it will launch a blockchain-powered home leasing platform for its Sher Maison range – and could allow renters to sign contracts and pay utility bills using blockchain-based solutions directly from their smartphones.
Per Cnet Japan, Sekisui House...
ConsenSys' New Business, Shareholders and ID on Blockchain + More News
8.6.2020
Joseph Lubin, Ethereum Co-founder and CEO of Consensys. Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Regulation news
Ethereum (ETH)-focused major blockchain company ConsenSys...
EOS Developer Block.one Prepares Voice For July Launch
8.6.2020
DeFi Usage to Accelerate in Next 24 Months - Investor
6.6.2020
As the technical infrastructure underpinning decentralized finance (DeFi) continues to improve, this sector is likely to take its share from centralized lending and trading venues, according to Kyle Samani, Managing Partner at crypto investment firm Multicoin Capital. However, great challenges...
100k+ Chat App Users Opt in to KakaoTalk’s New Crypto Wallet in 1 Day
4.6.2020
South Korea’s Kakao says that over 100,000, or around 2% of the users of the chat app KakaoTalk have already activated the app’s new crypto wallet function – less than a day after the wallet went live.
As previously reported, KakaoTalk’s Klip wallet went live on June 3, with support for...
Samsung & LG ‘Pursuing Business with Big International Crypto Players’
4.6.2020
Source: Adobe/S_E
South Korean experts say that domestic business big-hitters like Samsung and LG are stepping up their crypto-related activities with overseas companies – rather than domestic players – as part of a strategy that has begun to take shape in the past few weeks.
As previously...
Cryptobartender Serves Drinks for Crypto, Doing its Part in Pandemic
4.6.2020
Cryptobartender. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube/CryptoTexty
A device called Cryptobartender is doing its part to help social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic, by selling drinks for crypto.
Cryptobartender is a device that allows users to buy water, wine, whiskey, or any other type...
Shell, Exxon and More Complete ‘Successful’ Blockchain Pilot
3.6.2020
Major oil and gas companies could be set to do away with conventional payments systems in favor of blockchain-powered solutions – after a 10-company consortium including energy giants such as Royal Dutch Shell and Exxon successfully piloted oilfield water-handling payments at an American shale...
BMW Blockchain Pilot, Bitcoin Competition + More News
1.6.2020
Source: Adobe/david_franklin
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Blockchain and DLT news
BMW’s blockchain platform Vantage is set for a pilot in South Korea,...
Decentraland’s Virtual World Makes History by Streaming SpaceX Launch
1.6.2020
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched from Launch Complex 39A on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station. In addition to being the first commercial human space mission, SpaceX’s latest launch of its Falcon 9 rocket with a manned...
Brave Aims At Zoom With 'Private and Unlimited Video Calling Service'
28.5.2020
Brave Together. Blockchain-based decentralized browser Brave (BAT) has launched encrypted in-browser video calls, dubbed Brave Together.
The makers of the Brave web browser have announced the launch of a "private and unlimited video calling service" based on the open source app Jitsi....
Irish Firms Pay Blockchain Devs More than US Counterparts – Report
28.5.2020
The highest-paid blockchain developers in the world are not based in Silicon Valley, but on the Emerald Isle, per a new report – with the United States placing third, behind Northern neighbor Canada on a list of countries with the highest average hourly rates for blockchain developers.
The report...
Why Is Polkadot Mainnet News Important to Blockchain Adoption?
27.5.2020
The first candidate for the highly anticipated blockchain and one of the top 10 ICOs of 2017, Polkadot Network, is live. The relevance of this project lies in its promise to bring much-needed "true [blockchain] interoperability."
Web3 Foundation, Polkadot’s lead developer has announced...
Financial Giants Fujitsu & Nomura to Launch Digital Asset Trading on Blockchain
26.5.2020
Source: Adobe/Игорь Головнёв
Japanese tech giant Fujitsu has signed a deal with major securities company Nomura that will see the duo co-launch an interoperable blockchain platform for trading “digital assets” such as securities.
Per a report from Nikkei, Fujitsu is working on the project with...
Sberbank to Roll out 5,000 Apple&Google Pay-compatible Blockchain ATMs
26.5.2020
Major banks in Russia are looking to do away with plastic card-powered personal finance – and are turning to blockchain to boost contactless transactions in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The banks are being led by blockchain-keen Sberbank, which has just bought around 5,000 contactless ATMs...
57% of Surveyed Japanese Companies Set to Adopt Blockchain Technology
22.5.2020
A survey of Japanese businesses has found that 57% of companies are considering blockchain adoption – but most fear that Japan is lagging behind other nations in the race to get blockchain-powered solutions up and running in the corporate world.
These were the findings of a report from Tokyo-based...
Binance Re-entering China via 'Blockchain not Crypto' Road
19.5.2020
Source: a screenshot, Instagram/binance
Major crypto exchange Binance seems to be well on its way to re-establishing a presence in China, but by taking the 'blockchain, not crypto' entrance. CEO, Changpeng Zhao (CZ), says "education and technology" first.
Following the Chinese ban...
Blockchain Interoperability, Ethereum Classic to Upgrade + More News
15.5.2020
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Blockchain news
Accenture and Fujitsu Laboratories are jointly developing a blockchain interoperability solution, per a press...
Blockchain Bites: Will Enterprise Blockchain Find a ‘Killer App’ or Be Killed?
14.5.2020
IBM, We.Trade and Microsoft executives spoke about the trials and tribulations of capitalizing on enterprise-grade blockchain at Consensus: Distributed
Coinbase Implements Fixes, Shortage Of Blockchain Specialists + More News
14.5.2020
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Exchanges news
Following two outages on April 29 and May 9, Coinbase said they are changing their database deployment topology...