Equichain, a UK-based fintech company that provides blockchain technology for capital markets, will advise the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) on how to use new technologies to increase efficiencies, as part of its market steering group.
“The open exchange with Equichain and members of the working group will allow us...
China expects to have its national blockchain standardization committee in place before the end of this year, according to an official from the country's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
In a keynote speech at the 2018 Guiyang Big Data Expo on Saturday, Li Ying, head of the IT ministry's...
US-based financial corporation American Express is researching how blockchain technology can provide solutions to issues such as fraud and identity protection.
AirPod – one of the most exciting new projects in the blockchain industry and cryptocurrency space – is going to be a Diamond Sponsor at CryptoKonf 2018 in Belgrade, Serbia. As such, AirPod is set to give an opening speech, during which the project’s ICO will be introduced to...
As the implications of the invention of have become understood, a certain hype has sprung up around blockchain technology.
This is, perhaps, because it is so easy to imagine high-level use cases. But, the technology has also been closely examined: millions of dollars have been spent researching blockchain technology over...
"The practical consequence for the first time, a way for one Internet user to transfer a unique piece of digital property to another Internet user, such that the transfer is guaranteed to be safe and secure, everyone knows that the transfer has taken place, and nobody can challenge...
Financial institutions have financed the disruption of countless industries over the last 30 years; they have an idea of what a revolutionary technology can do to static incumbents.
So, to stay ahead of change, banks have been proactive in setting up R&D labs, building test centers and establishing partnerships with...
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As stated in our guide "What is Blockchain Technology?", there are three principal technologies that combine to create a blockchain. None of them are new. Rather, it is their orchestration and application that is new.
These technologies are: 1) private key cryptography, 2) a distributed network with a shared ledger...
Ledgers, the foundation of accounting, are as ancient as writing and money.
Their medium has been clay, wooden tally sticks (that were a fire hazard), stone, papyrus and paper. Once computers became normalized in the 1980s and '90s, paper records were digitized, often by manual data entry.
These early digital ledgers...
