Sirin Labs, a crypto firm founded in Israel has announced the release of its ultra-secure crypto smartphone. The company, with this development, is touted to be recognized as the manufacturer of the world’s first crypto-centric smartphone. Sirin Labs Unveils Finney The crypto smartphone named Finney was launched in Singapore through local electronics retailer courts. With […]
ICONLOOP To Implement Blockchain-Based Certification on Korean Art Platform
ICONLOOP, South Korea’s leading blockchain network is all set to apply its blockchain-based certificate service ‘broof’ to ‘ARTnGUIDE’, the first online service Korean platform for co-purchasing works of art. The partnership marks the first case of applying blockchain-based certificate issuance service to the art market. The partnership seeks to help in preventing cases of forgery and […]
Rapidly develop blockchain solutions, but avoid the complexities
After first emerging as the basis for the Bitcoin protocol, blockchain has since gained momentum as a way to digitize business processes that extend beyond the boundaries of a single organization. While digital currencies use the shared ledger to track transactions and balances, enterprises are coming together to use the ledger in a different way. […]
The Convergence of Blockchain and the IoT
An article by Marc, Editor at IoT Business News. Blockchain technology and the Internet of Things (IoT) have a lot in common. They are both futuristic technologies in the midst of a ten-second countdown to launching themselves into the stratosphere, where all industries will rely on them and everyday people will begin to take them […]
India: Post Crypto Ban Recommendation by IMC, Experts Urge Indian Govt. to Take A second Look
Recently, the Inter-ministerial committee submitted a report in which the banning of cryptocurrencies was recommended. According to the report, this would maintain the long-standing punishment of the use of cryptocurrencies in India. The committee which was headed by the Secretary of the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA), Subhash Chandra Garg, maintained a good stance about […]
RIDDLE&CODE Launches Hardware Car Wallet With Daimler
RIDDLE&CODE, Europe’s leading provider of blockchain interface solutions, today provided details and context of its DLT hardware wallet that is powering a Daimler Financial Services-led consortium to provide an open car wallet solution. Car wallets enable a wide variety of use cases from car-sharing to Autonomous Vehicles. The real-time exchange of secure traffic data between […]
Turkey Plans to be the First Country to Issue Central Bank Cryptocurrency
Turkey has been facing economic challenges with the sovereign currency declining rapidly in 2019. During these tumultuous times, cryptocurrency remains the only viable way to move money out from the effect of inflation. The Eleventh Development Plan 2019-2023 in Turkey has proposed the formation of Blockchain-based central bank money. Reportedly, the Commission also planned to encourage […]
Azure Blockchain Workbench 1.7.0 integration with Azure Blockchain Service
We’re excited to share the release of Microsoft Azure Blockchain Workbench 1.7.0, which along with our new Azure Blockchain Service, can further enhance your blockchain development and projects. You can deploy a new instance of Blockchain Workbench through the Azure portal or upgrade your existing deployments to 1.7.0 using the upgrade script. This update includes […]
DeFi: What it Is and Isn’t (Part 1)
I interviewed industry professionals at top law firms, investment funds, exchanges, and various decentralized finance (DeFi) projects, in… Continue reading on Blockchain at Berkeley »
Digital Panopticon: Why Privacy is a Human Right
Let me start with one of my favorite visualizations of surveillance (not my original idea). In the late 18th century, an English philosopher, Jeremy Bentham, designed a brutally efficient prison architecture. The main innovation is quite simple: prison cells are arranged in a circular format surrounding a central watchtower. The watchtower theoretically only needs to […]