The Blockchain Academy Europe Luxembourg 26-27 November 2018
The Blockchain Academy Europe, the fifth edition of our European course on Bitcoin, Blockchain and the Crypto economy held in Luxembourg at Hotel Le Royal was a great success. The Blockchain Academy Europe brought CEOs, Managers, Entrepreneurs, Investors and Students…
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Toyota to use blockchain to avoid fraud in digital advertising
Toyota is deploying blockchain technology to manage issues of fraud and transparency in its advertising campaigns. Read more and discover how Toyota is looking to attain transparency in its digital advertising campaign buys and to avoid wasting useful resources that…
Air France-KLM to develop Blockchain technology in the travel industry
Air France-KLM announced a new partnership to develop Blockchain in the travel industry. The aim of this new agreement is to provide, via Blockchain technology, a more advantageous travel offer for customers which is more profitable for suppliers, in particular…
Spain to create a blockchain to develop forestry
The Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is going to adopt blockchain technology to develop forestry. ChainWood, the organization that is working to develop the distributed ledger, aims to improve the efficiency and traceability of Spanish wood supply by…
Walmart Asks Suppliers of Leafy Greens to Use Blockchain
Walmart and Sam’s Club sent a letter to suppliers of fresh, leafy greens asking them to trace their products all the way back to the farm using blockchain technology. Suppliers are expected to have all these systems in place by…
World Economic Forum has highlighted over 65 use-cases of the blockchain technology in environmental conservation
The World Economic Forum went beyond the finance sector to investigate possible applications of Blockchain technology for protecting our natural environment. The research discovered over 65 ways in which the use of Blockchain technology could improve our delicate ecosystem. Read…
Paris Saint-Germain to issue its own cryptocurrency
PSG is now eyeing a deadline of spring 2019 to start issuing its proprietary tokens, making it potentially one of the first soccer clubs in the world to do so. Rather than a monetary role for PSG’s coin however, the…
Video Games to boost Blockchain adoption
Recently, a growing number of new video games are being developed thanks to Blockchain-based systems. The daily use of those digital games is helping users to familiarise with how distributed ledgers and cryptocurenncies work. Read more and discover how video…
Blockchain to change and improve the life science
Blockchain related techonologies enable decentralized, immutable and tamper-proof public ledgers. Sequencing the human genome down to the molecular level of the four ‘letters’ that bind into the double-stranded helices of our DNA was first completed in 2003. The project cost…
Walmart to connect automated delivery drones using Blockchain
Walmart patented a “delivery management system” aimed at improving upon last mile shipping by using robotics, sensors and blockchains. As a drone approaches a delivery box, it authenticates itself with a “blockchain identifier”. If the code is valid, then the…
Nominations open for Malta Blockchain Awards
PRESS RELEASE Malta has risen to the top during the year as the blockchain jurisdiction of choice, which has earned it the name ‘Blockchain Island’. The Malta Blockchain Summit mirrors the ongoing buzz, and the summit is already sold out…
Boeing to develop pilotless vehicles using Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence
Boeing announced a partnership with the Artificial Intelligence company SparkCognition to develop solutions for tracking unmanned aircraft while in flight, as well as assigning safe and secure flight paths for the transportation of both products and people. Read more and…
UK Food Standars successfully carried out a Blockchain project
The Food Standards Agency conducted a pilot of the Blockchain technology to access and share information with the slaughterhouse to track meat for inspection. Read more about one of the first pilots using Blockchain technology to verify regulatory compliance in…
The Russian Military gets on board with Blockchain against hackers
The Russian defense ministry is setting up a research laboratory to develop blockchain technologies and apply it to improve cybersecurity and fight cyber assaults. Read more and discover how the blockchain can help the army track possible hack attacks and…
Walmart to use Blockchain for safely storing Medical Records
Walmart, US retail giant, won a patent for a system that would securely house and store medical records on a blockchain-based platform. Read more to know how Walmart is developing a system that improves the management of medical information and…
Developing a Blockchain-based system for onboarding bank clients
Niuron, major Spanish banking consortium, announced they are working on a Blockchain platform made for client digital identification verification. Read more and discover how it will improve the speed of operations, reduce fraud, and prevent money laundering. https://cointelegraph.com/news/spanish-bank-group-to-develop-blockchain-platform-to-identify-clients
CryptoFriends will celebrate its 1st Birthday on the “Blockchain Island”
Sponsored article from our Partner Malta Blockchain Summit The Malta Blockchain Summit has joined CryptoFriends, the eclectic Blockchain and Crypto Events Company to host an exclusive Crypto iGathering party. CryptoFriends are celebrating their first year by throwing an exclusive party…
Blockchain to disrupt the Aerospace and Defense industry
Aerospace and defense executives named the Blockchain as an emerging technology that could foster further growth and achieve greater efficiency. Read more to discover why a great number of A&D companies have been exploring how Blockchain may be able to…
Subway and FoodLogiQ’s Journey to Supply Chain Traceability
Subway is collaborating with FoodLogiQ, SaaS provider of traceability and supply chain transparency tools, to evaluate how Blockchain technology can help the food industry to boost transparency and end-to-end visibilty. Read more to know what they are planning and which…
Mastercard to try Blockchain for authenticating Coupons
MasterCard has shown a strong interest towards Blockchain technology. Recently, the company won a patent for a system that uses Blockchain to authenticate coupons with the aim of making them tamper-proof. Read more to understand how the financial service giant…
The first Blockchain-based marine insurance platform has been released
AP Moller – Maersk, the largest shipping company established the world’s first blockchain platform for marine insurance. Read more to discover how this technology is facing risks for more than 1000 vessels and will give support for more than 500,000…
AI and Blockchain are made for each other
AI fosters centralized intelligence on close data platforms, Blockchain promotes decentralized applications in an open-data environment. For the above reasone they can significantly cooperate. Read more and learn why Blockchain and AI are the two extreme sides of the technology…
Reshaping the Future of Entertainment
Blockchain Technology can significantly transform the Entertainment Industry as it is now. The way music will be distributed, how tickets are sold and the way advertising will be managed might have a boost thanks to the capabilities of Blockchain. Read…
Facebook exploring Blockchain Technology
The world’s global leading social network established an internal task force, lead by David Marcus, to analyse and evaluate the adoption of Blockchain techology. There is still uncertainty about the possible application Facebook wants to explore but data protection and…
Top Automakers form Blockchain Consortium
Four of the world’s largest car makers — BMW, General Motors, Ford, and Renault—announced on May 2, 2018, they will form a group to explore the potential of blockchain in the automotive industry. These companies will be working together to…
Historical Korean Peace Agreement stored on Ethereum forever
When the leaders of the two Koreas signed the historical peace agreement, a South Korean game developer named Ryu Gi-hyeok coded the treaty on Ethereum Blockchain creating two ETH transaction of the Panmunjom declarations in English and Korean. READ MORE…
The Blockchain Revolution applied to the Energy sector
The Energy sector is going to be influenced by the enormous innovative power of Blockchain technology. However, this technological revolution is bringing many challenges that must be solved so that companies adapting to it could gain most of the possible…
Blockchain-based international payments service introduced by Banco Santander
Four leading countries such as Spain, UK, Poland and Brazil are giving the opportunity to Banco Santander’s retail customers to complete international transfers on the same day (in many cases) or by the next day. As well as being faster,…
India investigates how Blockchain could fight counterfeit drugs
The Indian Government is carrying out a Blockchain Proof-of-Concept to analyze the benefits the technology can bring in fighting against fake drugs trade. According to Factor Daily, a local publication, the POC should come to an end approximately at the…