Come November Christie’s is planning to pilot registering transactions on a blockchain. Artory is the technology partner. The...
Author - Nicky Morris
Case study highlights common blockchain challenges
By day Frenchman Benjamin Djidi works as a Senior Business Intelligence Engineer at Amazon in Seattle. At night he’s improving his...
Fidelity: 80% of institutional investors see big blockchain impact
Fidelity’s Global Institutional Investor Survey found that 80% of investors think that, by 2025, blockchain and similar...
GE joins Siemens, German energy agency in blockchain study
Today GE Power announced it’s joining the blockchain study run by the German energy agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur (dena). Back...
Hyperledger takes steps toward benchmarking enterprise blockchain
The Hyperledger consortium has published a whitepaper that defines performance metrics for blockchains. The metrics should apply to most...
Financial Stability Board: crypto-assets not current threat
Today the Financial Stability Board that monitors the global financial system issued a report that says crypto-assets don’t...
Banking blockchain startup Clearmatics raises $12m
Today London-based Clearmatics announced it has raised more than $12m in a Series A funding round led by Route 66 Ventures from Virginia...
Canadian Central bank’s contingency plan for crypto
Last week Timothy Lane, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada (BoC), spoke about the state of cryptocurrencies. Lane does not foresee...
IBM’s Food Trust blockchain goes live with Carrefour
Today IBM announced its Food Trust network is now generally available, plus French supermarket giant Carrefour and others have joined...
Dubai to launch blockchain payments. Central Bank Digital Currency?
Soon Dubai citizens and residents will be able to make digital currency payments for school fees, utility bills and retail purchases...