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Aisshwarya Tiwari
Aisshwarya is currently working as SAP finance consultant for an IT consultancy. He likes to read about tech (fintech in particular) and history during his free time. He also likes to make 8-bit music.
According to a report by Food Navigator published on December 20, 2019, Italy-based consortium – the ROUGE Project – has decided to tap blockchain technology to tackle Sicilian blood orange food fraud. Blockchain Technology to Tackle the Blood Orange Mess In a bid to boost transparency in the food supply...
Russia-based diamond producer, ALROSA on December 17, 2019, announced that it will launch a distributed ledger technology-powered (DLT) solution on one of China’s leading social media platforms WeChat to enable Chinese retailers to ensure the legitimacy and safety of the diamonds. Blockchain to Track the Legitimacy of Diamonds Blockchain technology,...
On December 19, 2019, KuCoin, an IDG-backed crypto exchange, announced that it will add KCS as the platform’s newest margin asset, supporting KCS/USDT trading pair with up to 10x leverage. KuCoin Adds Margin Trading to Its Arsenal of Weapons As a popular feature on KuCoin, margin trading allows users to...
One of the big four accounting firms KPMG has launched a distributed ledger technology-enabled (DLT) platform to manage and overlook the supply chain nitty-gritty of the agriculture and food processing industry in Australia. This, according to a report by Consultancy.com.au, December 17, 2019. Blockchain Down Under Over the past few...
On December 17, 2019, decentralized web blockchain project TRON CEO Justin Sun, tweeted that the initiative is set to beta-test its shielded transactions which hide the sender and receiver’s addresses, transaction input and output, and the amount transacted. TRON Jumping on the Privacy Bandwagon Despite global authorities showing apprehension toward...
In a press release issued on December 17, 2019, Fidelity Investment’s cryptocurrency arm – Fidelity Digital Assets – announced that it is expanding its business operations into Europe through the U.K. Capturing the Market Across the Atlantic Fidelity Investments is inarguably one of the most well-known and significant financial institutions...
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) – the United Nations Migration Agency – in partnership with blockchain startup Diginex - on December 16, 2019, announced the launch of a blockchain-based tool to mitigate the exploitation of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong SAR, China. Blockchain for A Noble Cause Unlike...
According to a report by Bloomberg published on December 16, 2019, Yang Zuoxing, a former cryptocurrency mining chip designer who worked with Bitmain, has been arrested in Shenzhen, China, on suspicion of embezzlement. Bitmain Rival Founder Arrested The cryptocurrency mining space has been getting increasingly competitive and congested with every...
U.S.-based computer processor manufacturing firm AMD has joined the Blockchain Game Alliance (BGA) to foster blockchain-based PC gaming. Additionally, the computer hardware giant has inked partnerships with Robot Cache and ULTRA to develop distributed ledger technology-powered (DLT) gaming platforms, reports Guru3D, December 16, 2019. AMD Makes Entry Into the Blockchain...
According to a report by ET Tech published on December 16, 2019, lawyers representing the customers of the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange platform QuadrigaCX have requested that the exchange’s deceased CEO, Gerald Cotten’s body be exhumed. QuadrigaCX Story Continues Canadian cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX made rounds to newsrooms earlier this year when...
