Companies

ShareRing, an Australian startup aiming to revolutionize the sharing economy with blockchain, has been announced as one of the tech companies participating in the brand new MOBI consortium.

Currently, large companies like Expedia and Booking.com control 80% of the online hotel booking market.

Recently hacked Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck has officially announced it will remove four major virtual coins from the trading list by June 18. The company needs to meet Japan’s Financial Service Agency (FSA) requirement which bans crypto coins with a high level of anonymity.  

Blockchain companies can evolve quite rapidly; for those startups in the emerging industry that break out of the ICO rat-race, the next task of delivering on the whitepaper and roadmap goals is of paramount importance, it’s also very telling for the future success of a company.

One of the largest financial services companies, HSBC Holdings Plc, reported that it had conducted the world’s first finance operation using blockchain technology. The financial technology is expected to improve the efficiency of financing international trade significantly.

Medium is an online publishing platform, meant to provide an alternative to standard blogging formats. It has established itself as a go-to place for writers to display their thoughts and ideas in a way that’s accessible to everyone. Writers can publish just about anything, but Medium works to ensure that readers only see the most relevant content (and every article notes how long it will probably take to read, which is nice for more impatient visitors).

The two blockchain companies are joining efforts to help sell Gaming Tokens.

The blockchain-platform Paymon came up with an idea for a charity project. The founders collaborated with the charity fund “Zhivi Malysh”, which works to save children’s lives since 2012.

Frederick Smith,  Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of U.S. Logistics giant FedEx, is more zealous on his commitment to clasping blockchain technology as one major way for the long-existing company to maintain its position in a vigorously changing digital world.