Token reward airdrops hope to “nudge” car users into more sustainable behaviors. Artificial intelligence specialists Fetch.ai, and blockchain solutions provider Datarella have announced the launch of a “Smart City” infrastructure trial in Munich, Germany, on Nov. 12. The trial will be centered around the Connex Buildings business center in the city and will use a multi-agent […]
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Deutsche Bank has called on Europe to accelerate the development of central bank digital currencies. Deutsche Bank, the largest banking institution in Germany, is confident that central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs, will replace cash in the future. The bank’s research arm, Deutsche Bank Research, published a new report on economic estimations and proposals to […]
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A blockchain-based project aims to collect weather data generated in West Africa. Will the region be open to data sharing? West Africa is home to an estimated 381 million people and counting. Unfortunately, the region was also found to be a hotspot for climate change, which will likely impact crop yields and food production while causing […]
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A major global blockchain trade network welcomes one of Russia’s largest banks. Alfa-Bank, one of the largest private commercial banks in Russia, has joined a blockchain trade finance network backed by HSBC. According to an official announcement on Nov. 3, Alfa-Bank is the first Russian bank to become a member of Contour — a blockchain […]
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Crunch time in the U.S. comes as coronavirus sparks more lockdowns and money printing plans in Europe. Bitcoin (BTC) starts a new week and month just dollars away from its highest monthly close in history — what’s in store next? Cointelegraph takes a look at five price factors which may influence BTC/USD as the U.S. […]
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We are now starting to see the crossover of regulation in the digital asset market and digitalization of the traditional market. From what started as something of a “technological experiment” with Bitcoin (BTC) over a decade ago, the crypto asset industry has become a significant driver for change in global financial markets. Cryptocurrency exchanges started […]
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Bundesbank seems to be coyly flirting with blockchain technology. According to a public notice published in the Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union, Ocean Protocol, a Singaporean non-profit foundation, was hired to create a decentralized network for Germany’s Bundesbank. The central bank said that the Ocean protocol, which is a project of […]
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“We need to prevent dollarization — this is one of the major designing points of the Chinese DCEP,” said Zhou Xiaochuan. China’s digital currency approach will favor its domestic retail system and prevent the dollarization of the economy according to one former senior official. Zhou Xiaochuan, the president of the Chinese Finance Association and former […]
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The company is testing a new blockchain pilot that would give customers the power to track their beer’s barley by the bottle. Anheuser-Busch InBev, the parent entity of Budweiser, Corona and many other beer brands, recently began to pilot a platform which lets end-customers track their malt beverages on the blockchain. This is not the first instance […]
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The German state-funded energy project uses DLT to enable transparent market transactions. A blockchain-based energy trading platform backed by German tech giant Siemens is being publicly demonstrated in a Bavarian municipality today. The so-called “Pebbles” project — short for “peer-to-peer energy trading based on blockchains” — is holding a virtual demo of its blockchain-based marketplace […]
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