Opera has partnered with blockchain advisory and financial services firm Ledger Capital to explore possible blockchain applications. The two companies are looking to investigate applications and use cases of blockchain and how the technology can be deployed within Opera products and its ecosystem. Opera became the first major web browser … Read the rest
Turkey launched its first blockchain university, named the Istanbul Blockchain and Innovation Center (BlockchainIST Center) in an atempt to “close the expertise gap” so that the country can begin utilizing the technology across many industries. The center, located at Bahcesehir University, will facilitate academic studies by students and entrepreneurs, and … Read the rest
Google’s parent company Alphabet has finally come to terms, on adopting Blockchain Technology into their core processes. he Blockchain technology emerged in the past decade and has become increasingly embraced by large companies and small governments as a way to digitize records and simplify transactions. Since then, the technology spread … Read the rest
Blockchain-based media start-up Civil Media is launching its cryptocurrency CVL on August 13th. The company looks to sell a maximum of $34 million in CVL tokens, which will be valued at 27 to 94 cents each. The company has an ambitious plan to save journalism using blockchain technology and cryptoeconomics. … Read the rest
State-owned KT Corporation, South Korea’s largest telephone company, has announced the launch of its blockchain-powered commercial network. The firm has built a blockchain layer on top of its existing nationwide network in order to make it “more secure and transparent.” With its new network, KT plans to allow its individual … Read the rest
An announcement made on July 20 from Lufthansa’s Innovation Hub has indicated that the company plan to launch the worlds first ever Aviation Blockchain Challenge. Over the past few years, we’ve seen blockchain technology slowly take hold in virtually all mainstream industries, and Lufthansa is aiming to apply the benefits … Read the rest
A Switzerland-based trading platform for metal concentrates is forming a blockchain consortium aimed to streamline supply chains in the minerals industry. Open Mineral – a startup established by a group of former employees from commodity trading and mining giant Glencore – said it has already started working with the ethereum … Read the rest
Speaking from a blockchain conference in Morocco over the weekend, Google co-founder Sergey Brin said the internet giant missed its chance to be at the forefront of blockchain technology. Brin, who currently serves as president of Google parent company Alphabet, joined blockchain technology leaders and researchers on a panel at … Read the rest
Oasis Labs has raised $45 million to build a “privacy-first” cloud computing platform with blockchain technology. The Berkeley, California based company is designing a platform to overcome the performance, security, and privacy limitations that have hampered blockchain adoption to date. The aim is to make blockchain, a distributed secure ledger … Read the rest
The government of Québec is blocking all new requests for hydroelectric power from cryptocurrency-mining operations, so energy company Hydro-Québec can keep supplying power to everyone else in the Canadian province. The emergency move followed a warning from Hydro-Québec that the “unprecedented demand” from these operations, which use a lot of … Read the rest