{"id":36049,"date":"2021-02-08T19:21:28","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T17:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=36049"},"modified":"2025-08-29T04:23:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T01:23:19","slug":"forbes-names-50-blockchain-using-companies-with-annual-revenue-or-market-capitalisation-over-1-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/forbes-names-50-blockchain-using-companies-with-annual-revenue-or-market-capitalisation-over-1-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Forbes names 50 blockchain-using companies with annual revenue or market capitalisation over $1 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes has named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/michaeldelcastillo\/2021\/02\/02\/blockchain-50\/?sh=737caf0e231c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">named 50 companies<\/a> with annual revenue or market capitalisation above $1 billion that use blockchain technology in their operations.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the updated list, only one Russian organisation made the cut \u2014 Nornickel, whose palladium fund Global Palladium Fund issued <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/nornickels-palladium-fund-issues-first-tokens\">the first tokens<\/a> in December 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the line-up includes cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, Digital Currency Group founder Barry Silbert, Square founder Jack Dorsey, and analytics-software provider MicroStrategy.<\/p>\n<p>The list also includes the Chinese technology company Ant Group, the automotive group Daimler, and the corporations Boeing, IBM and Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>The publication also included Oracle, PayPal, Samsung, Saudi Aramco, Visa and Walmart among the active users of blockchain.<\/p>\n<p>Positions in the list went to one of China\\&#8217;s largest banks\u2014the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China\u2014and to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, which on February 8 <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/cme-launches-ethereum-futures\">launched Ethereum futures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Many billionaire companies use blockchain solutions for corporate clients\u2014Hyperledger Fabric, Corda, IBM Blockchain, as well as the Ethereum-based variant Quorum.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, the list included Facebook, Google and Amazon. However, these companies did not make the new ranking.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2020 Forbes included several representatives of the cryptocurrency industry among the most <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/forbes-names-seven-crypto-industry-figures-on-its-30-under-30-list\">promising young entrepreneurs<\/a> in finance. Among them are Bitcoin Core developer Amiti Uttarwar, the head of the crypto- derivatives exchange FTX Sam Bankman-Fried, and Paradigm partner Charlie Noyes.<\/p>\n<p>Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/forbes-names-11-crypto-billionaires\">led the ranking<\/a> of the wealthiest figures in the cryptocurrency business in 2020. Also in the top three were Sam Bankman-Fried and Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes named 50 companies with annual revenue or market capitalisation over $1 billion that use blockchain technology in their operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25,34],"class_list":["post-36049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-blockchain","tag-forbes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36051,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36049\/revisions\/36051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}