Blockchain News
Discover the latest news on new applications for blockchain technology as well as information on research, infrastructure and public policy related to cryptocurrency and bitcoin.
Blockchain-Based BitVPN Helps Prevent Cyber Attacks Targeting Corporate VPNs
According to an article from ZDNet, cyber-attacks targeting the enterprise sector have been at an all-time high in the first half of 2020. While researchers clearly put RDP as the most popular intrusion vector and the source of most ransomware incidents in 2020, the use of VPN and other similar... - September 03, 2020 - BitVPN Inc.
Blockchain of Things Launches Self-Service SaaS Offerings
Blockchain of Things announces the launch of their Catenis product line as a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering. Now non-developers and developers alike can easily subscribe to a plan, and effortlessly start integrating their apps with the global Bitcoin blockchain. Catenis’ second layer... - August 28, 2020 - Blockchain of Things, Inc.
ABS Introduces iDeployIt 1.0, a DevOps Solution for Deploying Software
iDeployIt 1.0, a flexible Software Deployment DevOps product for today's software deployment scenarios. - August 11, 2020 - A Better Solution, Inc.
Infinite Block Tech Announces Expansion of Its White Label Solutions for Various Crypto Exchanges
Infinite Block Tech, an industry-leading company in the realm of blockchain and cryptocurrency development, offers a multitude of services in the respective fields. The US-based company is particularly known for and has earned a name for itself with the exclusive white label crypto exchange... - July 24, 2020 - Infinite Block Tech
Masternodes: An Alternative Revenue Stream Within the Blockchain Infrastructure on IndSoft Systems
Crypto enthusiasts must be aware of the term "masternode" within the crypto niche. Despite Masternodes being an attractive proposition for users seeking unique investment opportunities, Masternode opportunities are not widely discussed. While investors focus on earning through crypto... - July 23, 2020 - IndSoft
Andersen Software Company Named Top 5 Technologies in Medicine, Development of Which Was Stimulated by COVID-19
The development of modern medicine is impossible without the development and implementation of new technologies. Andersen software outsourcing company explains why, during and after the coronavirus pandemic, blockchain, Data Science, and several other technologies were especially in demand. - July 10, 2020 - Andersen
Chinese Projects Select æternity to Power Their Decentralized Applications
The global æternity ecosystem makes its mark on China’s growing blockchain industry. - July 08, 2020 - aeternity
Drivers Can Save Time Finding Parking with dexFreight and TruckPark Partnership; Parking App Enables Truck Drivers to Reserve Parking Spots in dexFreight’s Network
dexFreight, a logistic open market network for carriers, brokers, and shippers, today announced it is partnering with TruckPark to make an advance truck parking reservation and payment available to its truck drivers and carriers. TruckPark is America's fastest-growing truck parking... - July 02, 2020 - dexFreight
Verimos Announces Initial Funding
Backers Include an A-List of Executives - July 01, 2020 - Verimos
Seasia Canada Steps Up Blockchain for Enterprise Digital Transformation Solutions
Seasia Canada - the helping hand in navigating the digital journey of numerous businesses and well known for delivering unparalleled software development services in Canada said the unit would focus on the expansion and evangelization of solutions for recording transactions, tracking assets, and making trust. This proposal is a result of Seasia Canada’s push into making applications practicing the blockchain technology makes it the best enterprise to embrace the database technology. - July 01, 2020 - Seasia Canada
ReliablyME Has Launched Blockchain Technology in Canada and the US That Holds People Accountable for Preventing the Spread of COVID-19
The tech startup, ReliablyME, has now completed testing their anti-COVID-19 behaviour modification platform and is going live with pilot implementations in Canada and the United States. It uses SMS text messaging to help large numbers of people be accountable to each other for maintaining good physical-distancing and hand-hygiene practices. - June 12, 2020 - ReliablyME
æternity Blockchain Launches First Peer-to-Peer Decentralized Social Sharing Platform
Released in May 2020, Superhero.com is a P2P social platform which empowers people to support people without intermediaries. Send tips directly to creators, causes, projects. Receive tips directly from fans. Get or give support to URLs on the web. Built on aeternity blockchain and released as open-source, Superhero.com beta makes the potential of decentralization tangible. - May 26, 2020 - aeternity
Announcing EnQlave: Post-Quantum Secure Ethereum Wallets
The Quantum Resistant Ledger (QRL) Foundation is pleased to announce EnQlave - the world's first ethereum-based post-quantum secure digital wallet. Existing public blockchain networks such as bitcoin and ethereum are quantum-insecure, but EnQlave offers high net worth users the ability for the... - May 20, 2020 - The QRL Foundation
OBITX Sells 420Cloud Software for $1.9 Million
OBITX, Inc., (OTCMKTS: OBTX) a blockchain development and consulting company, announced that it has sold its 420Cloud Social Media Platform to First Bitcoin Capital, Corp., for $1.9 million. - May 19, 2020 - OBITX, Inc.
iNTELLi Network & Redman’s CannaMarkUSA Unite
iNTELLi Network & Redman’s CannaMarkUSA Unite to Create BirthMARK LLC. - May 14, 2020 - CannaMarkUSA
OBITX Expands Board of Directors
OBITX, Inc., (OTCMKTS: OBTX), a blockchain development and consulting company, expands its board of directors by announcing the election of Robert Adams to the board. - May 13, 2020 - OBITX, Inc.
OBITX Embraces Blockchain Technologies and Decentralized Computing
Michael Hawkins, OBITX Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, addresses shareholders on Company's direction in blockchain technologies and decentralized computing. - May 06, 2020 - OBITX, Inc.
Keyhole Fabric API Gateway Accepted Into Hyperledger Labs
Keyhole Labs announces that open-source Hyperledger Fabric API Gateway (used to provide access to HLF blockchain networks) is accepted into Hyperledger Labs. Keyhole Software has a passion for collaborative innovation and resource sharing, and the recent acceptance will allow the open-source tool to be further tested, innovated, and utilized by the wider Hyperledger community. - April 16, 2020 - Keyhole Software
TradeFinex.org Launches Tools to Empower PPE Manufacturers During Coronavirus Crisis
XDC Coin powered TradeFinex launches blockchain network tools to empower decentralised manufacturing of personal protective equipment (PPE). Fundmydesign tools on TradeFinex aims to connect designers, manufacturers, and inventors. - April 16, 2020 - XinFin Fintech Pte. Ltd.
CENTUS Stable Coin Became a Leader in Trading Volume at Stellar DEX
CENTUS Stable Cent, issued by the English-based company Cloud Invest Ltd., became the prime coin in turnover volume on Stellar Markets (DEX) in March (source: stellar.expert). Up to date, over 35,000 holders are enrolled in the CENTUS seignorage network. Their benefits consist of seignorage, a kind of interest, that is accrued on the funds they hold on their Stellar addresses, twice a week (Tuesday and Friday). - April 03, 2020 - Cloud Invest Ltd.
BEQUANT to Provide Distribution and Commentary on Select Blockchain Research Institute Reports
BEQUANT – a London based digital asset Prime Brokerage firm – has begun an initiative to provide in-depth industry analysis and commentary for Blockchain Research Institute (BRI) reports. Using data from industry research compiled by the Blockchain Research Institute, BEQUANT will... - March 23, 2020 - BEQUANT
Sawblade Ventures and Northern Arizona University Advancing Cyber Security Hardware Solutions by Growing Portfolio
Teams to study how hardware cyber security schemes can be integrated in a suite of electronic design tools for advanced enablement of the latest security techniques with the ease of use of an electronic design automation environment. - March 04, 2020 - Sawblade Ventures, LLC
OpenJaw Technologies Named as One of the Best Workplaces in Ireland
Ireland's leading travel technology company recognised for the first time. - February 27, 2020 - OpenJaw Technologies
A Single-Socket Dell EMC Server-based vSAN Cluster Provided Better Value Than a Dual-Socket HPE Server-based Cluster in Principled Technologies Database Tests
Both three-node clusters outperformed a legacy solution; however, the Dell EMC cluster saved money on hardware and software. - February 13, 2020 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
Principled Technologies Finds Migrating from SQL Server 2008 to SQL Server 2019 on a Lenovo ThinkSystem SR630 is an Easy Way to Avoid the Risks of Unsupported Software
Moving a database using Microsoft Data Migration Assistant required only 19 steps and less than 5 minutes of hands-on time and improved OLAP performance - February 06, 2020 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
Lanner to Exhibit at IoT Evolution Expo in Florida
Lanner to showcase its latest generation dual wireless IoT gateway appliances and GPU powered Industrial Edge computers, as well as two joint live demos with IoT Solutions providers Litmus Automation and NodeWeaver in February 2020 at leading Internet of Things technology event. - February 04, 2020 - Lanner America
Copper.co Appointed by XinFin for Institutional Custody Solution
XinFin Partners with London based institutional custody & prime brokerage firm, copper.co. - January 29, 2020 - XinFin Fintech Pte. Ltd.
Smart Sight Innovations Leveraging Blockchain Technology for TrustEd’s Web App
Smart Sight Innovations has recently developed a Blockchain-based solution for Australia-based startup that offers academic credential verification service. - January 25, 2020 - Smart Sight Innovations
BEQUANT CEO George Zarya and Team at Davos 2020 for Prime Brokerage Launch
BEQUANT CEO and Team in Davos launching the company's Prime Brokerage product with major industry. - January 24, 2020 - BEQUANT
Principled Technologies Finds That HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen10 Servers with Value SAS and NVMe Mainstream SSDs Outperformed Servers with Enterprise SATA SSDs
In the Principled Technologies (PT) data center, configurations of the HPE server with KIOXIA RM5 Series value SAS and CD5 Series NVMe mainstream SSDs completed more database transactions during an online transaction processing (OLTP) workload than the same server with enterprise SATA SSDs, yielding more performance for each dollar spent. - January 24, 2020 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
Keyhole Software Releases New Byzantine API Gateway Tool
The new Byzantine API Gateway provides client access to a Hyperledger Fabric blockchain network through RESTful APIs. - December 13, 2019 - Keyhole Software
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing the Database Performance of a Dell EMC PowerEdge R940 Server With and Without Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory
In hands-on testing, PT found that adding Intel Optane DC persistent memory to a Dell EMC PowerEdge R940 server increased the number of database VMs the server could support. - December 05, 2019 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
Get Wunbit's Tokens with Generous Discounts on Black Friday and Cyber Monday’s Special Deals
Wunbit is a blockchain-based gaming platform that rewards players in crypto for playing online games. - November 29, 2019 - Wunbit
TrueGoldCoin, After the Latest Smart Contract Update, Has Larger Plans
TrueGoldCoin (TGC) finished its transition of upgrading and updating its smart contract and has now just started trading in Latoken, one of the most important exchanges in the world. - November 28, 2019 - Truevalue Holdings, Inc.
Clocr Announces Launch of Safe and Secure Cloud Locker for Digital Estate
Clocr is a blockchain-powered, digital estate planning platform that offers super-secure, hacker deterrent cloud locker and estate disbursement features, all under one roof. People can store and share their digital assets and provide a hierarchy of instructions on how their digital assets can be disbursed to their selected beneficiaries. Clocr’s differentiator is a proprietary, multi-layered security protocol that shreds the encrypted files and stores the pieces on multiple cloud locations. - November 27, 2019 - Clocr, Inc.
Mavericks Renewable Energy and San Benito Hemp Campus Team Up to Create the First Carbon Negative Microgrid
San Benito Hemp Campus has over 300,000 square feet of seed production, secure storage, curing, processing and hemp facility in San Benito County, California. Opening in 2020, San Benito Hemp Campus will be the largest vertically integrated hemp processing facility in the United States. San Benito... - November 22, 2019 - Mavericks Renewable Energy
Principled Technologies Finds That Current-Generation Dell EMC PowerEdge R640 Servers Offer a Significant Boost for Compute-Heavy, Apache Hadoop Big Data Workloads
In three Apache Hadoop big data tests at the Principled Technologies (PT) data center, a cluster of Dell EMC PowerEdge R640 servers powered by 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors outperformed previous-generation Dell EMC PowerEdge R630 servers. - November 20, 2019 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
David Crais Invited to Speak at MinneBOS in Boston, Massachusetts on Applying Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence to Healthcare
David Crais, CEO of CMG Carealytics, was invited exclusively to speak on the applications of blockchain and artificial intelligence in healthcare, medical, biotech, biomedical engineering, and life sciences. He was selected due to his over 20 years experience with the subject matter and breadth of experience in healthcare and medical research, development, and commercialization in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the EU and other global healthcare and life science markets. - November 20, 2019 - Crais Management Group, LLC
Blockchain and Smart Contract Catastrophe Bond Marketspace Network to Launch in 2020
An innovative new patent pending marketspace network to launch in 2020 to enable the growing demand for catastrophe bonds especially from ESG, SRI, and impact investors. As climate change continues to have dramatic social, economic, and business impacts that governments and underwriters must contend with it demands new models of risk transfer, underwriting, and pricing of risk to meet the growing need. - November 20, 2019 - Crais Management Group, LLC
Groot Systems and PineSuisse Team Up in USD $1.5 Billion Joint-Venture to Launch Africa’s Largest Stock Exchange Powered by Blockchain
SASE expects to have daily post-trade activities, estimated to be more than USD $3 trillion and the Cillar Exchange Network (Cillarex) is to enable investors and entrepreneurs exchange their daily post-trade transaction amounts from the digital currency, Cillar, to any local fiat currency of any SADC member state or any other world’s major cryptocurrencies. - November 20, 2019 - Groot Systems (Pty) Ltd
Ether1.org, Open Source Blockchain Project, Rolls-Out ethoFS - A Decentralized Website Hosting & File Sharing Protocol That Aims to Combat Web Censorship
In an industry first move, Ether-1 (ether1.org) has completed a network wide deployment of their decentralized, immutable data hosting protocol called ethoFS. With their unique democratized and "decentralize everything" approach, this latest technological advancement furthers the ideals... - November 16, 2019 - Ether-1
BitVPN Assures Users of Hack-Proof Internet Usage Following the Recent Pwn2Own Event
At the recently concluded Pwn2Own event, multiple devices including Amazon Echo and a Samsung Galaxy S10 were hacked. Putting the apprehensions of their customers to rest, BitVPN informs that its customers are safe as ever and can continue enjoying hack-proof surfing. - November 15, 2019 - BitVPN Inc.
Tucker Company Worldwide Reaches 89.6% Digital, Gps-Based Visibility, Up from 16.4% Last Year
Tucker Company Worldwide aims to reach 100% shipment visibility into its diverse carrier base by 2020. - November 13, 2019 - Tucker Company Worldwide
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing the SQL Server Performance of a Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd with Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory vs. Traditional Storage
In hands-on testing, PT found that Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd with Intel Optane DC persistent memory outperformed SATA SSD and NVMe drive configurations in SQL Server 2019 performance. - November 06, 2019 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory Helped to Increase VDI Users in Principled Technologies Study
Additionally, the new memory technology facilitated better CPU and RAM utilization. - November 04, 2019 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
Principled Technologies Finds That Organizations Running MongoDB Data Analyses Could See Performance Boosts with Current-Generation Dell EMC PowerEdge R640 Servers
Running big data workloads on MongoDB databases at Principled Technologies (PT), Dell EMC PowerEdge R640 servers powered by 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors outperformed previous-generation Dell EMC PowerEdge R630 servers. - October 31, 2019 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
Value SAS and NVMe Mainstream SSDs from KIOXIA Enabled a Server to Handle More Data Analytics in Principled Technologies Study
Compared to enterprise SATA SSDs, the KIOXIA offerings also showed lower latency and had a higher performance per dollar figure. - October 28, 2019 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
The Quantum Resistant Ledger (QRL) Foundation Announces a Research Arm to Continue Its Advancement of Post-Quantum Cryptographic Standards
The Quantum Resistant Ledger (QRL) Foundation, creator of the world’s leading quantum-secure blockchain network and digital asset platform, is continuing to pioneer in the field by seeking up to 4 post-quantum cryptographers for research grants as part of its newly formed research initiative. This announcement comes on the tail of Google’s quantum supremacy achievement, which further confirms the need for a transition towards quantum-secure cryptography in many technological domains. - October 25, 2019 - The QRL Foundation
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing Incident Management and Server Deployment Using Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Integrations vs. Manual Methods
In hands-on testing, PT found that using OMISNOW for ticket tracking and OpenManage Ansible modules for server deployment saved significant administrator time and effort vs. completing the tasks manually. - October 23, 2019 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
Consumers Look to BitVPN for Safe Transactions Following the Recent Crypto Related Update by the IRS
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has recently included it in the individual U.S. taxpayers’ form. As crypto transactions continue to become more commonplace around the world, a decentralized VPN service named BitVPN is helping consumers protect their crypto transactions. - October 21, 2019 - BitVPN Inc.