UnionBank of the Philippines has rolled out its own cryptocurrency dubbed PHX to connect rural banks through its blockchain platform, according to The Philippine Star. Pegged to the Philippine peso (PHP), PHX is already...

South Korean telecom giant KT has announced its plans to expand blockchain-based food distribution ecosystem in collaboration with Nongshim Data System (NDS), an affiliate of South Korean food and beverage company...

One Chinese wholesaler is employing blockchain technology to try and counter the flow of counterfeit alcohol. Oranco Inc. is known for importing wines into the country and it hopes to be able to identify fake liquor by...

Malaysian e-commerce giant PUC Berhard has entered into a partnership with blockchain platform Wanchian as part of its efforts to integrate blockchain technology into its operations. According to the official...

Banking giant HSBC announced this week that it has successfully executed a blockchain-enabled live trade Letter-of-Credit (LC) transaction between South Korea and Vietnam. In a press release dated July 22, the bank said...

ENN Energy Holdings Limited, one of Chinas biggest energy service providers, is harnessing VeChainThor technology to ensure the optimal quality control and supply chain management of natural gas. As per a press release,...

Swisscom Blockchain, a subsidiary of Swiss state-owned telecom firm Swisscom, has unveiled a launch of the first part of Seraph ID, a self-sovereign identity (SSI) solution built on the NEO blockchain. Seraph ID aims to...

Japanese trading house Sumitomo is teaming up with bitFlyer Blockchain to jointly develop a blockchain-based housing rental contract platform equipped with smart contract functionality. In May, bitFlyer Holdings, the...

EnCirca is a domain name registrar and it recently announced that it will be accepting Ethereum addresses. The new initiative is now in the pre-registration phase so anyone who wants to register .ETH domain names will...

A pilot program in Utah County involving mobile voting via blockchain is underway. It is intended to test the method for allowing certain voters to participate in the election if they find it inconvenient to physically...

The New York Times (NYT) has revealed it will use Hyperledger Fabrics permissioned blockchain to verify the sources of digital files. In addition to false statements published as fact in text and photos that have been...

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was recently signed by the Republic of San Marino and VeChain, a blockchain firm, to launch a project involving the distributed ledger technology. This new initiative is intended to...

Ping An Insurances financial technology unit OneConnect announced its partnership with UBX, the fintech subsidiary of Philippines UnionBank, to use blockchain to offer financial services to micro, small, and medium...

The fight to end the flow of counterfeit drugs into Uganda is set to see a new tool in use with Ugandan President Yoweri Musevini looking to blockchain as a potential solution. The intent is to leverage the transparency of...