The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States is reportedly turning to blockchain to create an efficient and reliably drug supply chain. The FDA has introduced a pilot program that aims to create an interoperable and e-system that follows specific medication drugs through their entire supply chain. The agency is reportedly turning to…
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Social crypto trading platform Blockport has announced that its users will now be able to use the Nexo platform to get crypto loans, offering them another alternative to selling their cryptocurrencies for fiat currencies. Blockport users can now keep their cryptocurrencies with all potential upsides, and leverage them to get instant access to cash. Blockport…
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How would you like to search for patterns in the blockchain of your choice in much the same way as you would search the Internet today? Believe it or not, Google just made search tools available that will perform that task for eight separate blockchain ledgers. Transaction datasets have been loaded upon its “BigQuery” platform…
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As the crypto bear market drags on, the consequences of what has been termed Crypto Winter continue to spread across the globe, especially in South Korea, a known hotbed of cryptocurrency trading and popularity. Recent reports detail a level of carnage that matches in many ways the decline in market values over the past year.…
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The CEO of Binance, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, is a talkative fellow and never one to shy away from expressing his opinions quite publicly. In a recent tweet, CZ expressed his consternation that more major retailers on the Internet have not begun to accept cryptocurrencies for online payments. In his tweet, CZ explained: For any internet…
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The power of blockchain has undeniably left its mark on almost all parts of the world. Recently, Africa has emerged as a top, or at least, promising blockchain/cryptocurrency destination. Because the market is so new, there are numerous solutions and inventions to be made using blockchain. The most remarkable thing about blockchain, however, is the…
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The asset management branch of Credit Suisse, Credit Suisse Asset Management, and Banco Best, a Portuguese financial institution, have partnered on an interesting blockchain project. The two financial institutions have processed blockchain-powered live cross-border transactions of an investment fund. The platform that was used for the transaction was FundsDLT. The latter is a decentralized platform based…
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Amidst all of the negative press of late related to crypto Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), the Australian Government’s Treasury department has recently released an issues paper that draws attention to the many advantages and opportunities that ICOs can bring to businesses and to the Australian economy as a whole. The 27-page paper does not ignore…
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Ampleforth (previously known as Fragments), a decentralized store of value protocol, announced today that historian, author, and financial expert Niall Ferguson will be joining its advisory board. Niall Ferguson is the author of fifteen books and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford, as well as the Center of European Studies at Harvard, where…
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“Gong hei fat choy” or “Gong xi fa tsai”, if you prefer Mandarin to Cantonese, are the preferred ways to wish “Happy New Year” for most of the Chinese population on the planet. While these words actually wish for prosperity in the year to come, this period of the year is usually accompanied by a…
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