Blockchain technology news

Georgia has concluded a new partnership with engineering firm  IOHK to turn the country into a blockchain hub. The Memorandum of Understanding was made on June 17, and will make the county’s Ministry of Sports, Science & Education apply a variety of 3G blockchain-supported initiatives.

The South Korean multinational conglomerate based in the capital Seoul, Samsung, will invest in sixth-generation (6G) networks on top of other semiconductors, and this could play a role in changing the face of blockchain technology, according to the company’s Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee.

The Research Center on Technologies, Innovation and Financial Services (CeTIF) - Catholic University and Reply, together with a group of giant financial banking institutions including Banca Mediolanum, Popolare di Sondrio and Ubi, as well as the popular Italian insurance companies such as Mediolanum Assicurazioni, Cargeas Assicurazioni, Nobis Filo Diretto and Reale Mutua, have finally decided to work together on a solution for the issuance of smart insurance policies based on blockchain and smart contract technologies.

As Italy continues with its vision of being Europe's innovation and technology hub, the Municipality of Naples has made a resolution on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Now, the crypto community is eager to see how this project will continue to grow. Various accountants, universities, the CNR and many other giant institutions joined this project. The tenacity was received with amusement, but the city of Napoli has proved for another time that it is ahead of the others in integrating law and economics, finance and social participation.

In the effort to achieve zero tolerance to carbon dioxide emissions using blockchain and other groundbreaking technologies in Italy, the international certification authority DNV GL partnered with VeChain, a giant technology service provider, to establish a platform with the potential to apply the technology and reduce the bi-oxygen demand (BOD) and other carbon emissions.

General Motors Ventures investment section has agreed to collaborate with a blockchain startup to work on a protocol and also develop a fraud protection system for the auto financing sector. General Motors (GM) will put much attention, knowledge and money to invest in this project, so as it can reach to its fruition.

The blockchain technology promises to bring new forms of innovative management to the logistics industry in Italy, and this will help in getting rid of the traditional and centralized way of doing things, and further help in identifying and testing new organizational models and new ways of engendering value in this sector.

Visa has announced that it is entering a $125 trillion market using blockchain to carry out these particular payments in the fastest, most economical and most transparent way ever. The blockchain and cryptocurrency industry is among the most lucrative businesses in the world, and this is the reason why popular companies, institutions or people with a big impact on the world’s economy are not hesitating to take advantage of any opportunity available.

The Austrian Post has presented the world's first special cryptocurrency and blockchain stamp. The groundbreaking special block links the analog and the digital era. From the dirndl embroidery and lederhosen stamp to exceptional items made of porcelain, glass, meteorite dust or sparkling Swarovski crystals in the past few years.