Category: Use Cases & Verticals
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ICBC's First Blockchain Patent Is Now Public
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, a major state-owned bank, is exploring how to verify and share users’ certificates on a blockchain.
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Blockchain Trade Finance Is Breaking Proof-of-Concept Gridlock
After years of tests and concepts, enterprise blockchain may be having a breakthrough moment, with several notable trials in trade finance advancing.
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Banking Giant ING Is Quietly Becoming a Serious Blockchain Innovator
Dutch bank ING, which made a splash last year with a modification to zero-knowledge proofs, is adding another innovative wrinkle to privacy in DLT.
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Mastercard Seeks 'Fast Track' Way to Sync Blockchain Data
A Mastercard patent application outlines how nodes could be quickly added to a blockchain.
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An Invitation to CoinDesk's Super-Secret ICO Pre-Launch Party*
What good is having immutable record-keeping and shared digital trust if you can’t kick it off with a rip-roaring banger? Amirite?
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Binance, Bermuda Ink $15 Million Crypto Investment Agreement
Bermuda has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Binance to develop a global compliance center in the British Overseas Territory.
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Alibaba Advances Blockchain Food Fraud Platform to Pilot Phase
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is trialling a blockchain-based tracking system developed to make its supply chain more transparent.
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IBM Reimagines Proof-of-Work for Blockchain IoT Devices
Your smart lightbulb can’t crush hashes at the rate of a giant mining farm, so how can it stay secure? The answer might be in the nonce.
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Sony Eyes Blockchain Use for Digital Rights Data
Sony believes a blockchain can be used as a digital rights management solution by storing ownership information.
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Barclays, Goldman Champion ISDA Standard for Blockchain Derivatives
U.K.-based bank Barclays is pushing hard for a data standard for derivatives, as a foundation for that market to adopt distributed ledger technology.