Just when we thought that blockchain couldn’t get any more interesting, here’s a piece of news that will brighten up your day! Xerox was awarded a patent for blockchain-driven auditing system for electronic files on Tuesday. As per the record of the patent published by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), it is, “An electronic device making […]
Indian company, Mahindra announced that it would be leveraging blockchain technology for its grape exporting business. It is aimed to dispel global concerns over transparency of the supply chain and the overall brand image of Indian grape exports. Speaking on the development, Ashok Sharma, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Mahindra Agri Solutions Ltd, said, “We are […]
Kolkata will host Global Blockchain Conference on December 18 and 19 at the Biswa Bangla Convention Centre. It is slated to be organized by the State Information Technology and Electronics (IT&E) Department. Speakers will include, Rosine Kadamani, who’s the co-founder of Blockchain Academy, Brazil, Bart Preneel who’s a blockchain and cryptology expert from Belgium, Sreeram […]
The Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM, Calcutta) will kickstart an advanced programme in FinTech and financial blockchain for management and financial professionals. The institute will join hands with TalentSprint, a digital platform which provides certificate courses in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, among others. Indranil Bose, a programme director at IIM, Calcutta, told news portal Asian […]
The Tezos blockchain will be validating the first on-chain blockchain update by undertaking a series of backward-incompatible adjustments to the network today. The advancement proposal which was termed the advancement proposal, was the first to pass through the network’s “self-amendment” process, reported news portal Coinnounce. The portal further stated that the bakers on Tezos- the same level as miners on […]
A blockchain-based real-estate platform has gone live in the US and the global launch is expected to be sometime in 2018. The project is called Shelter Zoom, based on ethereum. The platform offers a widget, a dashboard and an app that helps buyers or their agents to instantly submit an offer from any online real […]
Reliance Jio in collaboration with CISCO organized India Digital Open Summit on Friday in Mumbai. The session included a wide range of topics such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), open source, the impact of data consumption in India, to name a few. The programme kicked off with President of Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited taking the dais to […]
Wikipedia co-founder, Larry Sanger, has announced its unadulterated support and admiration for the internet browser, Brave. The founder of one of the largest free information website, published a post, ‘The Two problems of computer technology’ recently. He proposed to go about it by ditching Chrome as he says, “Google collects massive amounts of information from us via their […]
An Indian bank, YES Bank has completed an issuance of corporate debt using blockchain built by Monetago on R3’s Corda. The transaction worth Rs 1 billion rupees ($14.5 million) was carried out on behalf on the Indian NGO Vedanta and used distributed ledger technology to share documentation electronically among all parties involved, which removed the need […]
In what will come as a surprise, phone company HTC announced that it was unveiling HTC Exodus 1s, which is a cheaper version of the Exodus 1 phone with built-in cryptocurrency and blockchain. The company said it would be launching the new phone in the third quarter of 2019, according to news portal Venture Beat. Last year in […]