Blockchain technology news

The United States Federal reserve has shown a very strong interest in components of  blockchain and distributed ledger technology. This was witnessed by the release of a paper whose aim was to investigate the potentials of blockchain and outline the Federal Reserve’s interest in the blockchain.

HashCoins and Emercoin have just announced the launch of their new blockchain for vehicle title certification.

The governor of the Bank of Japan expressed the potential of Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies in modern economy development at the International Financial Forum, held in Tokyo on Monday, December 5.

Dianrong.com became the first Chinese P2P platform to join one of the world's biggest blockchain alliances, the Hyperledger Project.

MasterCard has filed 4 new patent applications focused on payments and transactions based on Blockchain technology with the US Patent and Trademark Office.

Most representatives of the government and governmental companies in Russia have changed their attitudes towards the use of Blockchain technology, as is used for the operation of Bitcoin. It’s safe to visit conferences in Russia without the threat of a visit by “KGB” like government bodies.

Calypso Technology, one of the leading financial software vendors, has become the first partner to develop capital markets applications on R3’s Corda distributed ledger-based smart contract platform.

The German Federal Bank (Deutsche Bundesbank) and Deutsche Börse, one of the world's leading marketplace organizers for the trading of shares and other securities, have jointly presented a functional prototype for the Blockchain-based settlement of securities.

World Marketing Congress has awarded this year’s Top 100 Most Influential Global Marketing Leaders Award to Jack Cheng, the Head of Marketing at ANX INTERNATIONAL, an Industrial Giant in the Fintech and Blockchain spaces.