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India’s Third Largest Telecom Firm Partners with IBM to Block Pesky Calls, Messages

May 25, 2019 by Aisshwarya Tiwari at Blockchain, News

Smartphone users in India can soon say goodbye for good to unsolicited pesky calls and messages as one of the country’s largest telecom companies, Bharti Airtel in partnership with IBM plans to deploy a blockchain-powered pan-India network. This according to a report by Economic Times Telecom, May 23, 2019. Adios,...

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Bicameral Interconnected Investments: A New Take on Strategic Blockchain Investing

May 23, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Blockchain

Venture capital firm Bicameral Ventures has funded three new companies to help build a technological ecosystem and improve product development management. Nodesmith, metaMe, and Velocia provide an array of mutual solutions from improving developer uptime to enhancing traffic flow management for urban regions. This new investment thesis is a refreshing...

Ripple Facilitates Payment Remittances From India to Saudi Arabia

May 22, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Adoption, Altcoins, Blockchain, Finance, News, Ripple

Indian commercial bank IndusInd has tied up with Saudi Arabian British Bank (SABB) through their partnership with Ripple. The payment remittance corridor between the two countries is powered through xRapid and xCurrent, as both banks adopted both networks, as revealed by Ripple, May 20, 2019. Further Headway in India After...

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Bitcoin-Based Smart Contracts Platform Adds “Third Layer” Scaling Solution

May 22, 2019 by Liam J Kelly at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Commentary, Development

RIF Labs officially launched their Bitcoin scaling solution at Consensus 2019. The RIF Lumino Network is comparable to the Lightning Network in its scalability potential, but as it’s built on top of the RSK protocol, there are many differences. RIF Labs CEO Diego Gutierrez Zaldivar walked through these differences as...

Polkadot’s New Proof of Concept Could Enhance Decentralized Governance

May 21, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Blockchain, Development, Ethereum, News

The Alexander testnet on Polkadot was upgraded with new features of which the most significant is improved staking governance, as per an announcement by the development team on May 20, 2019. Polkadot was created by Ethereum and Parity co-founder Gavin Wood, who also co-invented the Solidity programming language. A New...

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You Are What You Eat: The Place of Blockchain in the Future of Food

May 21, 2019 by Tokoni Uti at Adoption, Blockchain, Business, Cryptocyclopedia, News

As food producers and restaurants come under scrutiny for their quality and content, blockchain has found itself in a whole new emerging market in the form of food tracking. Universally Eating Across cultures and countries, one thing that is consistent between human beings from all walks of life is food....

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ConsenSys Demographic Search Survey: Trends in Cryptocurrency and Blockchain

May 21, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Adoption, Altcoins, Bitcoin, Blockchain, News

A search engine survey carried out by ConsenSys revealed the search break up for certain countries. The goal, as per the blog post, May 20, 2019, was to figure out whether Bitcoin, Ethereum, blockchain, or cryptocurrency were dominating consumer minds in a particular country. Bitcoin and Ethereum On Top Countries...

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Seoul Mayor still Bullish on Blockchain for Smart City Initiatives

May 21, 2019 by Mohammad Musharraf at Adoption, Blockchain, Development, News, Tech

South Korean news outlet Queen.co.kr reported May 20, 2019, that the Seoul city mayor Park Won-soon during the ‘Korea Future Forum & Blockchain Tech Show’ highlighted the use of blockchain and Ai in recording and storing data. He also spoke of his plans to integrate the blockchain authentication system in...

Saudi Arabia: The First Blockchain Tracked Cargo Shipped to Rotterdam

May 21, 2019 by Mohammad Musharraf at Adoption, Blockchain, News

Hellenic Shipping News reported May 20, 2019 that Saudi Customs successfully departed the first shipment that is powered by blockchain technology. It is headed to Rotterdam, Netherlands. Other Ports of Saudi Arabia May Soon See a Blockchain System For the very first time in 2018, a container was processed over...

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Calastone Launches Blockchain-Based Decentralized Market Infrastructure

May 21, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Adoption, Blockchain, Business, News

Calastone, a leading global transaction network for the mutual fund industry, has launched its blockchain-powered Distributed Market Infrastructure (DMI) in a bid to enable digitalization and frictionless trading at a global scale, according to a blog post on May 20, 2019. Calastone Integrate DLT As stated in its blog...

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