Albertsons will pilot the solution before considering its expansion to other products, the company says. United States food and drug chain Albertsons Companies has become the latest client retailer of IBM’s Food Trust blockchain platform, the company confirmed in a press release on April 11. Albertsons, which operates a network of 2,300 stores across the […]
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IT services company TCS announced that it carried out what it defines as the world’s first cross-border securities settlement between two central depositories. Indian IT services company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announced on April 10 that it carried out what it defines as the world’s first cross-border securities settlement between two central depositories using the […]
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Global messaging app Telegram reportedly opened access to a testing version of TON Blockchain to a limited number of devs. Global messaging app Telegram has reportedly launched a private beta testing of its blockchain, Telegram Open Network (TON), Russian media outlet Vedomosti reports on April 11. According to Vedomosti, Telegram has opened access to a […]
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Yonsei and Postech will develop various programs and structures based on the technology, aiming to launch in H2 2019. Two South Korean universities will develop an entire Blockchain Campus with its own cryptocurrency, local English-language daily news outlet Business Korea reported on April 3. Yonsei University, which already has an active blockchain community, will partner […]
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A developer survey shows that 80% of organizations are currently not using blockchain technology. Major developer community website StackOverflow has surveyed nearly 90,000 developers, and the results published on April 9 show that 80% of organizations are currently not using blockchain. As well, 12.7% of the developers responded that organizations use blockchain for non-currency applications, […]
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Bithumb confirmed that troubling market conditions spurred the losses, which come despite 17% sales growth. South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb had a net loss of 205 billion won ($180 million) in 2018 due to the Bitcoin (BTC) bear market, local English-language daily news outlet Korea Times reported on April 11. Citing data from the exchange’s […]
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After a bullish week, all of the top twenty cryptocurrencies are reporting slight to moderate losses on the day by press time. Thursday, April 11 — after a bullish week, all of the top twenty cryptocurrencies are reporting slight to moderate losses on the day by press time, as Bitcoin (BTC) corrects down close to […]
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Bithumb used a third-party accounting firm to assess its holdings after losing funds to what it suspects was a company insider. South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb has conducted a professional external audit of its funds after a major hack last month, the company confirmed in a statement on April 11. Bithumb, South Korea’s largest exchange, […]
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A host of crypto industry critics have weighed in on the potential drawbacks of so-dubbed initial exchange offerings. A host of crypto industry critics have weighed in on the potential drawbacks of so-dubbed initial exchange offerings (IEOs) — a crypto exchange-hosted alternative to the original model of an initial coin offering (ICO). Their views were […]
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Users of MakerDAO (MKR) look set to raise the stability fee for the DAI stablecoin by 4%. Users of Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) MakerDAO (MKR) look set to raise the stability fee for Maker’s DAI (DAI) stablecoin by a further 4%, in the fifth such vote this year. An ongoing governance poll, due to close […]
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