# adoption News

According to Micky News, an Australian News outlet, a blockchain-based voting system will be used by the South Australian Government in an official election conducted soon. Integrating a blockchain-based voting system On February 18, 2019, Horizon State CEO Nimo Naamani confirmed that the South Australian Government would be using the company’s...

Finablr, a United Arab Emirates (UAE) based fintech, and foreign exchange platform has announced that its network brands, UAE Exchange and Unimoni, have joined the blockchain technology bandwagon via Ripple’s RippleNet DLT network for cross-border payments, according to a press release on February 10, 2019. RippleNet Adoption for Cross-Border Payments In...

Elevated Returns (ER ), an asset management company has announced its partnership with Securitize, a digital securities issuance company, to offer investors compliant tokenized real estate assets worth $1 billion using the Tezos blockchain, reports PR Newswire on February 11, 2019. Tokenizing Real Estate via Blockchain Technology Per the report,...

Oracle, the leading global software and hardware producer, announced on February 12, 2019, it would be introducing new and innovative capabilities to its blockchain platform. Easing the use of the platform Oracle's suite of developer-facing tools will allow blockchain builders to construct their own applications. The new features will essentially turn Oracle’s...

IBM has taken another major step by opening a new physical blockchain center in Melbourne where customers may launch their applications directly, with plans of a second center to open in March 2019. This was reported by ZDNet on February 11, 2019. IBM Breaks New Ground The IBM data center...