One of Canada’s top 50 companies is embracing blockchain technology to streamline its complex supply chain. Federated Co-operatives Limited, or FCL, one of Canada’s 50-largest companies, has partnered with blockchain-based supply chain middleware platform, Morpheus.Network. FCL plans to integrate distributed ledger technology, or DLT, based tracking. This will be deployed across its diverse supply chain, […]
Continue ReadingThe world’s largest producer of fruit and vegetables is expanding its use of blockchain for supply chain tracking. Dole Food Company, the world’s largest producer of fruit and vegetables, has revealed a five-year plan to expand its adoption of distributed ledger technology, or DLT, for supply chain tracking. Dole’s blockchain expansion was announced in its […]
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WeBank is the only bank ranked in the top 10 Global Banking Patents Rankings. China-based digital bank, WeBank, rose to third place for number of Blockchain patents filed globally in 2019. Alibaba and Tencent took the first and second places respectively. According to the report published on April 24, the digital bank has climbed from […]
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Bitfinex is planning to list its first cross-chain DeFi token pBTC to further push DeFi adoption and liquidity. Major crypto exchange, Bitfinex, continues to drive decentralized finance, or DeFI, adoption by announcing support for a new cross-chain DeFi solution. Bitfinex exchange plans to list pTokens (pBTC) — a new token that aims to unlock cross-chain […]
Continue ReadingBlockchain technology could help the African gold industry boost the continent’s economic growth, even during the coronavirus pandemic. Western perception of precious African resources usually tends to focus on the diamond trade. However, amid an ongoing pandemic, gold usually surfaces as both one of the most in-demand and discussed assets in the world. Historically known […]
Continue ReadingCoinbase gets into the DeFi space by launching a crypto price oracle. Coinbase is trying to fix the broken DeFi industry with stable price oracles. In an April 23 announcement, Coinbase introduced the Coinbase Price Oracle — “a critically important service to the DeFi ecosystem” that will be available through the CoinbasePro API. Both existing […]
Continue ReadingWhy hasn’t the Ethereum blockchain found the perfect solution for its scalability problem since 2014, and does one really exist? The Ethereum team has been trying to solve the blockchain scalability problem since 2014. During that time, solutions such as Raiden, Plasma, zk-SNARKs, sharding and rollups appeared in the developers’ tool kit. However, the implementation […]
Continue ReadingThe upcoming Bitcoin halving may result in greater demand and higher prices, but what are the challenges for the 2020 halving? Sometimes less is more. That’s a tenet of modern design, but it’s also a central belief of many in the decentralized cryptocurrency community. Throughout the Bitcoin (BTC) world — in Twitter threads, on crypto […]
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The crypto exchange OKEx’s CEO, Jay Hao, talks the future of OKEx and the crypto sector, CMC’s acquisition by Binance and his favorite books. Jay Hao, the CEO of the digital asset exchange OKEx, took part in Cointelegraph China HUB, an online interview column started by Cointelegraph China. In the past, Hao has stated that […]
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The on-chain activity for stablecoins has increased 800% in the last 12 months. The on-chain activity for stablecoins has increased 800% in the last 12 months according to market intelligence firm TokenAnalyst. This growth is not surprising considering the overall growth of the stablecoin niche. The combined market cap for all stablecoins ranks third in […]
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