Bakkt Trust Co., a digital asset company that uses bitcoin, announced that Starbucks will be the first launch partner for a consumer app that it plans to debut during the first half of 2020. Mike Blandina, chief product officer at...
Xi Jinping, president of the People's Republic of China, believes China must accelerate its adoption of blockchain technology and, following his remarks, investors are snapping up stocks from blockchain companies while bitcoin's value rose by 26%, according to a Bloomberg...
Mastercard has entered an agreement with Envisible, a firm that tracks food industry supply chains, to use blockchain technology to track the origin of seafood sold at Topco Associates, a $14 billion food cooperative based in Illinois. The companies will...
Xi Jinping, president of China, has called for the country to accelerate its adoption of blockchain technology during a Politburo Committee session on blockchain technology, according to a report by Reuters. “We must take blockchain as an important breakthrough for...
Smashing Boxes, a digital product design and development firm, has hired Walter Pinson to serve as VP of strategy and blockchain practice lead. Pinson will help lead growth initiatives such as developing the company's blockchain practice and delivering decentralized business...
Cash App, the mobile payment service from Square Inc., with more than 7 million customers, suffered a brief service disruption last week that left users temporarily unable to receive payment transfers and perform other functions . "On Friday we had...
William Grant and Sons' Ailsa Bay has partnered with blockchain company startup arc-net to launch a blockchain app for its whiskey. The app will compile information such as cask types, filling dates and bottling dates recorded on arc-net's Distilled ID...
HTC has recently unveiled its Exodus 1s, which can hold the entire Bitcoin ledger. The phone will not be able to mine bitcoin, but it can hold the complete Bitcoin Ledger on a SD card, according to a report by...
IBM recently partnered with Raw Seafoods Inc. to allow partners, retailers and restaurants to track seafood on the supply chain using the IBM Food Trust, which is build on the IBM Blockchain Platform.
EY, a workplace solutions company, has introduced its OpsChain Public Finance Manager, a blockchain solution to help governments manage the finances of public funds. The solution uses blockchain technology to offer accurate and timely information for financial reporting and accountability,...
Ford is currently running a European plug-in hybrid electric vehicle trial across Europe to analyze how these cars will benefit the environment, with its most recent trial running in Cologne, Germany. As part of this trial, Ford is using geofencing...
The Libra Association, following a series of high profile defections from some of the nation's leading payments companies, formalized its governing structure at a board meeting Monday in Geneva where it announced 21 founding members. The Libra Council announced a...
Bitstop has installed a bitcoin ATM at Miami International Airport in concourse G next to gate 16. Customers can use the ATM to buy or sell bitcoin for cash, according to a press release. This is Bitstop's 40th ATM installation over the last two months and brings its total ATM count to 130 machines around the U.S.
BRD, a cryptocurrency mobile wallet, has partnered with Xpring, Ripple's developer initiative to integrate support for XRP cryptocurrency into its wallet. BRD users will be able to hold, buy, sell or send XRP to anyone in the world, according to...
IBM Corp. recently announced a supply chain suite called IBM Sterling Supply Chain Suite, which is embedded with Watson AI and IBM Blockchain.
Techstars, a blockchain accelerator company, has officially ended its partnership with the firm Alchemist due to the arrest of its founder Steven Nerayoff due to an alleged cryptocurrency extortion scam, according to a report by Yahoo Finance. Nerayoff's firm was built to help blockchain entrepreneurs succeeded.
Simon Morris, who was the head of product for the Libra Association, the governing body that would oversee Facebook's proposed crypto, is gone. He silently departed the project in August, only five months after joining, according to his LinkedIn profile....
The West Virginia Secretary of State office has said that someone tried to gain access to its blockchain-based mobile voting pilot in May 2018. This pilot allowed military members oversees who are residents of Harrison or Monongalia countries to use the Voatz app to vote.
IOV Labs, a blockchain technology company, has partnered with Binarystar, a blockchain accelerator company in Japan to help improve the adoption of blockchain technologies in Japan, according to a press release. RSK, the parent company of IOV Labs introduced a...
Starbucks named first launch partner for Bakkt consumer crypto rollout in 2020
China president's comments spark blockchain stock, bitcoin value surge
Mastercard to pilot seafood supply chain with blockchain at Topco's Food City
Chinese President calls for blockchain innovation
Smashing Boxes hires new VP of strategy and blockchain
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