R3, the enterprise blockchain software firm, just announced plans to open its second European office in Dublin in 2020. The office will serve as another of R3’s tech hubs and will be primarily staffed by engineering specialists who will work closely with the existing Engineering team in London. The company has recently doubled the size…
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Limestone Network is a startup based in Singapore that aims to disrupt the urban environment in Southeast Asia by using blockchain to build smart cities. The first planned project comprises a 100-hectare land in Phnom Penh. The project is backed up by private investors and it will affect approximately around 200,000 people on a daily…
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Blockchain has conquered it all, there is no doubt about this. The technology has been used in multiple sectors and industries, especially in the financial world. Now, one of the world's giants in mechanics and engineering, Dürr AG, has managed to secure a loan of EUR 750m on a "sustainable base" through blockchain. The information…
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Read moreThe Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the U.S. has published a request for blockchain support. The agency wishes to outsource the task of running nodes on the BTC, ETH, and XRP blochchains, ostensibly “to support its efforts to monitor risk, improve compliance, and inform commission policy with respect to digital assets.” The Trustnodes news…
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It has barely been two weeks since President Donald Trump went on his tweet rant, attacking all things crypto, while his henchman, Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin, actually declared them a “national security issue”. The dust may still be settling, but the news is now that somehow the Department of Defense (DoD) must have…
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A constant refrain from crypto skeptics has always been that cryptos and the blockchain technology that supports them enable the criminal element in our society to easily hide their nefarious activities, such as money laundering, drug trafficking, funding terrorism, illegal arms dealing, child pornography, and on and on. Skeptics and criminals, however, have mistakenly believed…
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Steve Wozniak, or as many call him, The Woz, has recently joined an energy efficiency company that develops its product on blockchain. The company is based in Malta. Wozniak announced that he has joined the so called EFFORCE project - a project that allows investors to back up energy efficiency startups around the globe and…
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Visa continues to be a leader in the the blockchain and crypto spaces. This time, Visa is betting on the digital asset custodian company Anchorage, which is a fellow in Facebook's Libra Association. Andreessen Horowitz are also partnering on the $40 million funding round. According to TechCrunch, Anchorage is a revolutionary custodian solution, as it…
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Taringa! is a Latin American social networking company that has 27 million users. This social networking giant is launching a stablecoin rewards system with the help of two strong partners: the e-wallet provider Airtm and MakerDAO. The information comes from an official press release from the company’s website. The company revealed its new product in…
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