By Stan Higgins South America's biggest stock exchange operator has joined the R3 distributed ledger consortium. BM&F Bovespa, based...

By Michael del Castillo More than $5m worth of digital currency associated with the attack on The DAO is on the move. Identified via an...

By Pete Rizzo Hong Kong's de-facto central bank intends to launch an innovation hub that will test blockchain and distributed ledger...

Pete Rizzo A big bank trade finance trial has borne fruit. Barclays reported today that two partners (agriculture co-operative Ornua and...

By Stan Higgins BNY Mellon has developed a test system that leverages blockchain technology to create a backup record of its brokerage...

By Julio Gil-Pulgar Drones for peaceful purposes are relentlessly converging with Bitcoin and its blockchain technology to defy obsolete...

  By Kevin Helms Hong Kong’s top banking regulator, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), unveiled two FinTech initiatives today. The...

By Jamie Redman The newly-appointed Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) chief, Dominic Stevens, recently defended the company’s stake in...

By Jamie Redman Agriculture jobs are a big part of the worldwide economy and blockchain technology is starting to make headway in this...

By Jamie Redman A group of students from the Technical University of Berlin (TU) has created a chess game on Ethereum using...

By Colin Jeffrey They're not the first transistors created using carbon nanotubes (CNTs), but researchers at the University of...

By Nick Lavars When it comes to making the concept of delivery drones a reality, using vans to handle the brunt of the work is an idea...

  By Michael del Castillo If Microsoft Azure's CTO is right, R3CEV may have just been the beginning. Mark Russinovich envisions a world...

By William Suberg August saw the first meeting of US credit unions looking to pioneer so-called distributed ledger technology (DLT) in...

  By Jamie Redman According to Wang Zhongmin, China’s vice-chairman of the National Council for Social Security Fund (NCSSF), the country...

By Jamie Redman The need for blockchain specialists in the finance field is growing fast, says Yahoo Finance. Companies such as American...

John Anderson, DroneSeed's drones would rapidly reforest logged lands by planting seeds, spraying for invasive species, and monitoring the...

Scott Collie, Formula E may not attract the same attention as Formula 1, but it's building momentum as the 2016/2017 season edges closer....

By Nicholas Tomaino, Spurred by Union Square Ventures partner Albert Wenger's recent blog post, there's been lots of discussion about...

By Michael del Castillo, Digital asset trading service Crypto Facilities has announced a $1.5m seed round led by Pamir Gelenbe's AngelList...

By Jamie Redman According to various reports, a malicious group of hackers called the “51 Crew” is hijacking blockchain clones by taking a...

By Trevor Hill Chinese mining pool, ViaBTC, has made the decision to test Bitcoin Unlimited. This is a significant move on the part of the...

By Jamie Redman The price of bitcoin is in a bullish pattern, seeing significant spikes over the past 24 hours. At press time, the value...

By William Mougayar, As government services are one of the most obvious and immediate application areas for the blockchain, it's no...

By Jamie Redman The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) has released a study called “Minting Money With Megawatts,”...

By Stan Higgins China Merchants Bank has become the latest Asia-based bank to join the R3 blockchain consortium. The commercial bank,...

by Stan Higgins Board members of the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) recently took part in a discussion on...

By Bailey Reutzel The credit union industry is following the lead of hackers and thieves, according to Jeff Johnson, chief information...

By William Suberg Decentralized land registry project Bitland has announced its ICO crowdfunding campaign and slated launch following a...

By Jamie Redman Innopolis City in Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan will host a fintech and blockchain hackathon on September 17-18 sponsored...

  By Jamie Redman On September 1, Bitfinex reimbursed its first wave of clients. 1.1812 percent of currently outstanding BFX tokens were...

By Jamie Redman A new joint research project from four Japanese organizations has formed a collaborative to promote regional development...

  By Jamie Redman The PAR Project (par.io) a Productive Asset Record system, has released its white paper today revealing the launch of...

by Stan Higgins A new report from the chair of the Kimberley Process – an initiative aimed at keeping conflict diamonds out of the global...

  By Michael Franco Dr. Gielen (left) and his partner on the paper, Neil Turok of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics...

  By  David Szondy Artist's concept of the Boom supersonic passenger plane A Denver-based startup company is entering the race to...

  By  Michael Franco Today's explosion took out a Falcon 9 rocket, like this one, along with the communications satellite it was meant to...

  Kevin Helms American multinational financial services corporation, Visa, is inviting lenders to test its interbank transfer system that...

By Allen Scott After months of development and hype, Brave Software Inc. has finally released an update that integrates under-the-hood...

  By Jamie Redman Over the past couple of months privacy-centric solutions have been growing in importance and popularity for the nascent...

  By Allen Scott OpenBazaar is the first-of-its-kind global decentralized market with thousands of products available for sale. But what...

By Stan Higgins, The central bank of Canada has published a new working paper that suggests its researchers believe digital currency...

By Michael del Castillo, Distributed ledger startup Nuco has inked its first formal partnership since being spun out from Deloitte's...

  By Michael del Castillo, Storied Silicon Valley accelerator Plug and Play recently revealed its biggest batch of blockchain...

By Pete Rizzo, Visa’s London-based innovation lab has announced its latest blockchain trial will focus on interbank payments. Visa Europe...

  By Alyssa Hertig, Microsoft has revealed it is organizing a working group dedicated to improving smart contracts security. Named...

By Jamie Redman, Blockchain-based data management platform, Factom, has announced its partnership with Intrinio, an application and...

By Jon Southurst, Four major world banks are set to announce the creation of a new blockchain-based digital currency, and are hoping to...

By Jamie Redman, New Jersey-based IPC Systems has partnered with Post-Quantum Solutions to implement biometrics, encryption and blockchain...

By Julio Gil-Pulgar, Industrial giant G.E. has announced the new Internet revolution: The Industrial Internet of Things. G.E. promises the...

By Jon Southurst, Blockchain is improving its Thunder Network for faster settlement and refund times in off-chain transactions, according...

  Kickstarter CEO and co-founder Yancey Strickler. Crowdfunding giant Kickstarter launches today in Hong Kong, making it easier for...

By Stephen Chen Hundreds of suspected operators of underground banks have been arrested this year in a nationwide crackdown on the...

By He Huifeng huifeng Huawei Technologies, the world’s largest telecommunications equipment supplier, expects to build a...

By Michael Franco When you get rid of an old phone or tablet, you're likely to remove your valuable information from it, but what about...

By Tyler MacDonald A small portion of the Tasmanian devil population might be evolving resistance to a deadly form of cancer In the face...

By Stan Higgins, The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), a division within the US Department of Health and Human...

By Stan Higgins, An affiliate of global electronics giant Samsung is among 17 new members to join the Hyperledger blockchain project. The...

By Pete Rizzo, In the latest sign that the insurance industry is embracing blockchain and distributed ledgers, MetLife has announced it...

By Pete Rizzo, A new report from financial giant Japan Exchange Group (JPX) contends that distributed ledgers will work "better" when...

by Olga Kharif olgakharif You know the drill -- those annoying recorded calls saying you’ve won a free cruise or a reduction in your...

By Michael del Castillo, Executives representing the top-level leadership at a range of blockchain companies and projects have signed a...

By Michael del Castillo, IBM is reorganizing its internal blockchain team into a business unit that encompasses its artificial...

  By Frances Coppola, Why would anyone want to use a coin issued by four large banks bailed out in 2008? That's a question that many...

By Eric Mack, The supermaterial graphene has been receiving quite a bit of attention over the past few years. The latest breakthrough...

  By Jamie Redman, The multi-platform blockchain project Lisk has just released its developmental roadmap, which will cover five...

William Suberg The CEO of China’s largest miner HaoBTC spoke with Bitcoin.com following his tweet stating that the Core developers have...

  By William Suberg, No-log VPN provider Private Internet Access (PIA) has stepped up its Bitcoin and Blockchain involvement with the...

By Allen Scott, The precipitous rise of Monero in the past few days has caused many users and traders to ask: what’s behind the surge of...

By Alexander Hitchcock, Bureaucracy, Ludwig von Mises explained in 1944, is "always applied with an opprobrious connotation", and such...

By Stan Higgins The central bank of Singapore has proposed a new regulatory framework for payments providers in the city-state, a move...

  By Jamie Redman, The state Florida made headlines when Miami-Dade’s Circuit Judge Teresa Mary Pooler tossed out anti-money-laundering...

By Jon Southurst, Central banking is “in a brave new world,” said a Fed representative as the institution considers both old and radical...

By Jamie Redman, Simon Denny, an artist from New Zealand, is taking blockchain technology to a different level with his geeky art being...

By Lukas Abegg, Lukas Abegg is a lawyer with master's degrees in Swiss and US law. He is currently a visiting researcher at the Humboldt...

    Jacob Donnelly, Cryptsy, Shapeshift, Gatecoin, Bitfinex. What do all these exchanges have in common? More than 130,000...

  By Jamie Redman, With all the hype surrounding decentralized, blockchain-based social media platforms such as Steemit and Synereo,...

By Jamie Redman, On August 24, members of the largest firms working on blockchain technology met with Don Tapscott at his Ontario summer...

By Jamie Redman, Leading mining hardware manufacturer Bitmain has recently unveiled its latest mining rig: the Antminer R4. This machine...

By Stan Higgins, Could a development on the ethereum blockchain help resolve one of bitcoin's longest-running debates? It may not seem...

By Jacob Donnelly, One ambitious bitcoin company is seeking to make mining a hobbyist activity again. China-based Bitmain let slip today...

By William Suberg, China’s most popular search engine, Baidu, froze bitcoin ads Thursday in what Bloomberg suggests is a “growing...

By Jamie Redman, Blockhain and financial technology may be going German, with a vast amount of startups in these industries choosing to...

By Jamie Redman, Social media is a major component of the Internet and has already transformed how humans communicate and interact....

By Alyssa Hertig, A type of anonymous transaction that bitcoin enthusiasts have been awaiting for years has finally been tested...

By Stan Higgins, A global trade organization for financial exchanges released a new survey today on distributed ledgers, highlighting...

By Scott Collie, It's China only, but the Denza points to where Mercedes next-gen EV products could be headed. Earlier this year, Daimler...

  By Nick Lavars, The pizza giant will use US-based drone startup Flirtey's aircraft for the service. Delivery drones hold the potential...

By Alyssa Hertig, One of ethereum's best-known wallets released new updates today, though one drew outsized attention due to the perceived...

Author Don Tapscott recently helped kick off the TED Summit in Banff, Alberta, with a lecture about blockchain technology. "For the first...