Factom News

As the societal applications of blockchain technology continue to grow, the world is now seeing the once conservative field of law being infiltrated with this innovative technology. Infiltrated may not be the proper term as the Internet Court of Hangzhou…

Eight new companies, including Sovrin Foundation, a private-sector international non-profit that was established to govern the world’s first self-sovereign identity network, and Swisscom, a major, state-owned Swiss telecommunications provider, have joined the Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger project. The other six companies…

Texas-based blockchain startup Factom, a company that provides businesses and governments with blockchain solutions to manage and store their data, has announced on November 18 that it will receive funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help them…

Texas-based blockchain startup Factom has announced a Series A funding round this week and the list of investors brings both a heavy industrial and international focus to the growing business. Tim Draper was the leading investor in the $4.2 million…

Japan is a country where many exciting things are happening behind the scenes. When it comes to technology, a significant mind shift is taking place. Entrepreneurship is becoming a new trend in the country, which is good news for cryptocurrency…

It’s no secret that China is the world’s second-largest economy. And in 2008, the country became the largest population on the Internet. Now, as this Asian behemoth continues its meteoric rise, innovative technologies are needed to strengthen their economic infrastructure.…

On December 14th, blockchain startup Factom announced the start of a 12-day Twitter bounty contest with a prize of US$100 in bitcoin and 100 factoids for best Tweets regarding use cases or ideas for new bitcoin and blockchain-based projects. The…