22 of the world’s biggest banks have collaborated on this blockchain project

The R3 project is likely to be a significant milestone in the history for blockchain technology. On Tuesday, in a significant development, twenty two of the world’s biggest banks have come together to collaborate on developing an international payments system that would allow existing central bank currencies and any new digital ones to be transacted…

Princeton University Computer Science graduate’s bitcoin idea draws global investors attention

Read further on why investors including Bain Capital, Digital Currency Group and others are taking basecoin so seriously. U.S. investors, including the Digital Currency Group, have taken part in a pre-sale of basecoin, a crypto-currency which will be created by three Princeton University computer science graduates,Intangible Labs CEO and co-founder Nader Al-Naji. The other investors…

Blockchain company ties up with medical AI company

Blockchain technology being used to validate, store and track healthcare data.   The Bitfury Group has entered into an alliance with Insilico Medicine, a Baltimore-based medical artificial intelligence (AI) firm, to create new applications for the healthcare industry using blockchain. Blockchain technology, being developped in the private as well as in the public sector, has…

The London Stock Exchange Group testing blockchain tech with select clients

The LSEG is collaborating with IBM to develop a platform based on an opensource version of bitcoin tech called Hyperledger Fabric. In a significant development for the development of bitcoin technology, the London Stock Exchange Group Plc is collaborating with IBM so as to build a blockchain-based platform for the purpose of issuing private shares…

JPMorgan Chase & Co leaves blockchain consortium R3 CEV

Although JPMorgan has left the consortium, it has cleverly distributed its bet in the blockchain technology. It has joined the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and is an investor in blockchain startups Digital Asset Holdings and Axoni. It is also a participant in the Hyperledger Project, a cross-industry group led by the Linux Foundation. JPMorgan Chase &…