Walmart and its membership-based unit Sam’s Club has announced that it will require suppliers of leafy greens to implement real-time, farm-to-store tracking using blockchain technology by next September. First reported by Reuters, the move is an effort to crack down of food-safety incidents which have gained prevalence in the United States in recent years. At […]
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In a series of roundtable discussions, members of the Congressional Blockchain Caucus discussed possible blockchain applications and policy implications. IBM and members of the U.S. Congressional Blockchain Caucus discussed the use of blockchain for ID systems, payments, and supply chains during a meeting today, September 24, according to a press call attended by Cointelegraph. IBM […]
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IBM has joined a number of competitors in developing a stablecoin pegged against the US dollar. Built on the Stellar Lumens (XLM) platform, Stronghold USD is an experiment designed to help banks and other financial institutions to process payments quickly and securely. The Stellar token was created in a partnership between IBM and the startup, […]
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IBM released a new blockchain product, targeted to start-ups that are not quite ready for their enterprise application development solution. In addition, IBM will offer new services that are designed to commercialize blockchain applications. Unlike the trustless public blockchains that underpin cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum, IBM’s permissioned blockchain network limits the number of trusted […]
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