HM Government of Gibraltar has announced the official launch of a new trade association aimed at accelerating the countrys adoption of blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT). Called the Gibraltar Association...

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has announced the official launch of a blockchain-based trade finance platform developed by a consortium of twelve major banks in Hong Kong. Dubbed eTradeConnect, previously known...

Nasdaq is teaming up with tech giant Microsoft on blockchain technology. In an online post, Matthew Kerner General Manager, Microsoft Azure, announced that Nasdaq is bringing digital ledger interoperability to the...

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...