LONDON (Reuters) – Commodity firms and banks have been diving into blockchain pilot schemes over the last two years but the new technology’s application for most trading has likely been overhyped, a report by Boston Read more…
Welcome to Friday Futures, our weekly guide to the latest visions of The Future from around the web. This week: theory of the universe could be wrong; sassy bots; self assembling proteins; blockchain based elections; an Read more…
AlipayHK, a mobile and online payment platform, recently launched a blockchain remittance service between Hong Kong and the Philippines. Now in a three-month trial period, the service has the potential to scale and invigorate the Read more…
Do you find data the way you stored it, or do you store data the way you find it? Not a silly question when determining scale and performance of information systems. Depending on what one decides, Read more…
As the use of blockchain technology becomes increasingly widespread, how can telecoms companies benefit? ITU News spoke with Oleg Pravdin, managing director of Blockchain in Telecom, about the potential uses of blockchain for the telecoms industry. Read more…
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – US-Israeli digital music store eMusic said on Tuesday it plans to raise $70 million to build a blockchain-based music distribution and royalty management platform to ensure artists and service providers get a Read more…
Seventeen tons of almonds have successfully been shipped and tracked from Sunraysia in Victoria, Australia, to Hamburg in Germany in a blockchain-based collaboration between Commonwealth Bank and five Australian and international supply chain players. Commonwealth Read more…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Foreign exchange settlement provider CLS, IBM and nine financial institutions, including Barclays and Citigroup, are testing a platform to access blockchain-based applications, the companies said on Monday. The platform, LedgerConnect, will Read more…
LONDON (Reuters) – A revamped Bank of England payments system should be able to hook up with FinTech firms using distributed ledger technology (DLT), the central bank said on Monday in a boost to the Read more…
Worldwide spending on blockchain solutions is forecast to reach $11.7 billion in 2022 – a five-year CAGR of 73.2% – according to the latest spending guide from IDC. IDC’s new Worldwide Semiannual Blockchain Spending Guide Read more…
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