IBM is taking its food-tracking blockchain into production, making it one of the largest enterprise projects to achieve that milestone, and has signed European supermarket giant Carrefour to use it. Announced Monday, the commercial launch of IBM Food Trust means that large players, as well as small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) in the food industry supply […]

A blockchain startup is going to be an official sponsor for a professional golf tournament in the United Kingdom. LIFElabs, a philanthropy-based crypto company, has entered into a sponsorship deal with the Sky Sports British Masters tournament, which is scheduled to begin next week. The partnership would mark LIFElabs as the first digital currency firm […]

American journal Time Magazine has included a blockchain startup in its recent top 50 “Genius Companies 2018″ list, published Thursday, October 4. In putting together the list, the magazine asked their editors and correspondents to name “businesses that are inventing the future.” Influence and success were among the criteria for the choice. Bitland, a blockchain startup based in Ghana, joined […]

Overstock.com’s venture capital subsidiary Medici Ventures has invested in Israeli-based technology company VinX to develop a blockchain-powered wine futures platform, according to a press release published October 4. The exact amount of the investment was not disclosed. Per the announcement, VinX plans to develop a token-based digital wine futures platform based on the Bordeaux futures model, that will enable […]

U.S. Reps. Doris Matsui and Brett Guthrie have recently proposed a bill dubbed the “Blockchain Promotional Act 2018” in the House of Representatives, according to an announcement on Matsui’s website Monday, Oct. 1. The release notes that current definitions of blockchain technology in different draft bills differ. For this reason, the bill proposes that the U.S. Department of Commerce creates […]

The video game console is dying, and AAA game publisher Ubisoft wants to help craft the standards that guide the development of one of the technologies that may one day replace it: blockchain. Ubisoft Joins Blockchain Game Alliance Toward that end, the French gaming giant has signed on as a founding member of the Blockchain […]

Brendan Eich, the CEO of decentralized browser Brave, has urged members of the U.S. senate to consider the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as a regulatory model, according to a statement published Oct. 2. In an open letter dated Sept. 29, Eich called on members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, to look to the […]

Korea Investment Partners (KIP), the largest venture capital firm in South Korea, is investing in its first blockchain startup. Announced Tuesday, KIP is investing an undisclosed amount of money into Temco, a blockchain-based startup that aims to revolutionize supply chain management systems for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMEs) using blockchain technology. Specifically, according to Temco’s website, vendors […]

The Reserve Bank of India has denied the creation of a new internal unit dedicated to cryptocurrency, blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) research. In late August, India’s most-popular financial daily, the Economic Times, reported that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had formed a new unit for researching and even regulating disruptive technologies like blockchain. The unit […]

Two of the United Nation’s wings are joining hands with Sierra Leone government to build a blockchain-based ID system for their seven million people. The UN Capital Development Fund (UNDCF) and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) have entered into a partnership with  Kiva, a technology nonprofit. Kiva will lend its institutional protocol of the same […]