Chinese retail giant JD.com has announced the launch of a joint research lab focused on blockchain technologies. The lab has been launched with the Ying Wu College of Computing at the New Jersey Institute of Technology...

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) is partnering with blockchain startup Digital Asset to work on a blockchain-based post-trade allocation and processing platform for the Northbound trading under Stock Connect...

Riksbanks e-krona project has published a new report that calls for the development of a technical solution for the issuance of the central bank digital currency (CBDC). The central bank started the e-krona project in...

Smart Dubai, in collaboration with IBM, has announced the Dubai Blockchain Platform, an enterprise-ready government-endorsed blockchain platform as-a-service in the UAE. Built locally in the UAE, the platform is...

The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) has announced the release of the latest specifications which will help facilitate blockchain interoperability across entire industries. The Enterprise Ethereum Client Specification...

Russian diamond giant Alrosa has joined the pilot programme of Tracr, the end-to-end diamond industry blockchain traceability platform being developed by De Beers Group in collaboration with industry stakeholders. In...

Japanese information and communication technology (ICT) company Fujitsu has announced that it has been selected as an application development vendor for a field trial of a Collaborative Blockchain Platform developed by the...

Singaporean utility giant SP Group has announced the launch of a blockchain-powered renewable energy certificate (REC) marketplace. The company made the announcement at the ASEAN Energy Business Forum (AEBF) today,...

Quorum, an enterprise version of the Ethereum blockchain developed by JP Morgan, is being used to tokenise gold bars, The Australian Financial Review reported October 29. Reports on the development of the Quorum...

Four well-known names from the agricultural industry Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Bunge, Cargill, and Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) are seeking to use blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) to digitize global...

The UK Royal Mint has halted its plans to launch a gold-backed crypto token, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. Initiated by the Royal Mint and CME Group in 2016, the digitized gold offering was dubbed Royal...

Deutsche Bundesbank and Deutsche Brse have announced that their jointly specified blockchain prototypes support the settlement of securities transactions, payments, interest payments and repayments at the maturity of a...

The Port of Montreal and Canada Border and Services Agency (CBSA) are joining TradeLens platform a blockchain solution jointly developed by Maersk and IBM. Officially announced in August, TradeLens has been designed to...

Blockchain Charity Foundation (BCF), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of blockchain-enabled philanthropy, has launched a new platform that uses blockchain technology to track...