QIWI: Five Banks to Join Russian Take on R3
Russia’s blockchain consortium will initially incorporate five banks along with the project’s initiator, payments processor QIWI, and the Bank of Russia as a regulator.
QIWI: Five Banks to Join Russian Take on R3
Russia’s blockchain consortium will initially incorporate five banks along with the project’s initiator, payments processor QIWI, and the Bank of Russia as a regulator.
Expert View: Applying Blockchain Tech to Artificial Intelligence
Distributed ledger technology may be successfully applied to develop artificial intelligence projects, thinks Dr. Maxim Orlovsky, Ukrainian complex systems and neuroscience expert.
Meanwhile in Asia: Cryptotechnologies and Economies
Cryptoeconomy becomes more and more entwined with the traditional one. Beginning as a crypto-anarchist utopia, the ecosystem keeps on evolving, and currently it starts influencing what happens in the big financial world. In this brief overview, we’ll attempt to show how it happens in Asia.
Cryptospace News Digest, June 5 – 12
Bitcoin heading to the Moon, raging bitcoin extortionists, good news from Russia and Ethereum expansion — all main events of the cryptoindustry in the week’s overview. Bitcoin Price For the first time in two years, bitcoin price has surpassed the $600 mark. Last Saturday, bitcoin’s market cap has reached $9 billion, and Sunday the exchange […]
Blockchain Beyond Cryptocurrency: A Brief Guide to the Future Part I
Using blockchain technology apart from its original application, cryptocurrency, isn’t news any longer. Numerous projects around the globe come up with new ideas as to how distributed ledger technology may be applicable beyond just transacting values.
Tendermint Suggested an Alternative Approach for Blockchain Systems Scaling
Jae Kwon and Ethan Buchman from Tendermint are developing a new architecture to solve the scalability problem found in blockchain systems. The researchers use the practical experience of such systems as thereum, Bitcoin, and Zerocash. The project’s whitepaper reads: “The combined success of the open-source ecosystem, of decentralized file-sharing, and of public cryptocurrencies, has inspired […]
Russian Central Bank to Use Blockchain for a Register of Depositors
Russia’s Central Bank intends to use blockchain technology in creating a unified register of bank depositors. According to the Central Bank’s experts, the technology may solve the so-called problem of off-balance depositors.
BB Fund to Start Investing in Blockchain Projects as of Autumn 2016
Venture fund Life.Sreda has recently launched a project dubbed Banking on Blockchain Fund (BB Find) to attract investments to blockchain-related startups. According to BB Fund’s managers, the fund will give grants to blockchain projects focused on banking.
Sberbank of Russia to Develop a Blockchain-based IT Platform
Speaking to Russian TV channel Russia 24, head of Sberbank German Gref stated that the country’s largest state-owned bank intends to complete the development of its blockchain-based IT platform by the end of 2018. According to Gref, currently some elements of the platform are undergoing testing, with industry-wide operation to commence the next year. “We […]
Russian Watches Manufacturer and National Post Service to Use Blockchain Technology
This week, Russian Post has announced it intends to use blockchain technology for shipment tracking.
Blockchain, Bitcoin and IBM: Developing Cryptotechnologies in Kazakhstan
Despite the fact that Kazakhstan is among ten largest countries in the world, it was not seen on the bitcoin world map until recently. However, cryptotechnologies have fought their way to an officially recognized level. On May 25 and 26, over the course of Astana Economic Forum 2016, a workshop on blockchain technology’s prospects in […]We use cookies to improve the quality of our service.
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