A blockchain letter of credit transaction in the oil industry has been sent by Standard Chartered with Thai state-owned oil giant PTT Group. London-based bank and financial services firm Standard Chartered has completed its first cross-border blockchain letter of credit transaction in the oil industry with Thai state-owned oil giant PTT Group. On-chain letter of […]
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The European Central Bank says the “central banking community” will refine its monitoring of cryptocurrency transactions, both on- and off-chain. The European Central Bank (ECB) says the “central banking community” will refine its monitoring of cryptocurrency transactions, both on- and off-chain. In an Aug. 7 report entitled “Understanding the crypto-asset phenomenon, its risks and measurement […]
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Australian winemaker Penfolds has partnered with VeChain to make a case of special wine bottles with blockchain authentication. Public enterprise blockchain platform VeChain has partnered with Autralian winemaker Penfolds to release a case of blockchain-encrypted wine bottles for sale, as part of its Wine Traceability Platform (WTP) initiative. More specifically, the launch of Penfolds Bin […]
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The groceries sector benefits the most from distributed ledger technologies, new study finds. The grocery sector is responsible for nearly half of all Distributed Ledger Technology-based (DLT) supply chain projects. UCL: grocery most active in DLT tracking Research conducted by the University College London centre for blockchain and retail blockchain consortium and published on Aug. […]
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Financial services firm Standard Chartered completed its first joint blockchain-based supply chain financing transaction in cooperation with Linklogis. London-based bank and financial services firm Standard Chartered has completed its first joint blockchain-based supply chain financing transaction. Standard Chartered announced on Aug. 5 that the institution successfully ran their first joint deep-tier supply chain financing transaction […]
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Tech giant IBM and blockchain company Chainyard have jointly announced a new blockchain network designed to improve supply chain management. Tech giant IBM and blockchain company Chainyard have jointly developed a new blockchain network for supply chain management. IBM announced the platform in a press release shared with Cointelegraph on Aug. 5. Alongside IBM, the […]
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The Bitcoin SV network saw a three-chain split after a massive 210 MB block was mined after the hard fork on July 24. Following a recent hard fork of Bitcoin SV (BSV), the network saw a three-chain split after a massive 210 megabytes (MB) block was mined. As reported by BitMEX Research on Aug. 3, […]
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Former Wall Street trader and host of the Keiser Report, Max Keiser, said that he believes Bitcoin will break $15,000 this week. Max Keiser, a former Wall Street trader and host of the RT program Keiser Report, said that he believes Bitcoin (BTC) will break $15,000 this week. In tweet published Aug. 3, Keiser said […]
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The top crypto staking projects — including Tron, EOS, VeChain, NEM and Neo — according to a report by INDX, evaluated by expected yield… INDX, the Tokenized Masternode Investment Fund, has calculated the top-10 proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchains based on the expected yield of their tokens. The company did this by quantifying the volatility, volume, liquidity, […]
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Bangladesh will use money from its $208 million IT project fund to send graduates for blockchain training in Japan and India. The Bangladesh government will use money from its $208 million IT project fund to send graduates for blockchain training in Japan and India. Bangladesh authorities plan to send 100 new IT graduates abroad to […]
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