Worldโ€™s Top Customer Relations Platform Integrates Commercial Blockchain

The worldโ€™s most popular customer relationship management platform Salesforce has integrated Litionโ€™s commercial blockchain technology. Lition is one of the few public/private blockchains currently supported by a major cloud provider, Microsoft Azure. According to Lition, integrating its blockchain will allow Salesforce to leverage data decentralization to make its CRM architecture more secure in the long run. It explained that:ย  โ€œBuilding a dependency upon data that is completely centralized creates operational risks. Extracting that data is not always guaranteed. A GDPR compliant blockchain is a great way to decentralize some of…

NEM Community in Uproar as Prez Takes 6-Month Paid Sabbatical

Sections of the NEM (XEM) community were in uproar this week after NEM Foundation President Alexandra Tinsman announced her intention to take a 6-month paid sabbatical.ย  Tinsmanโ€™s decision to step back from the day-to-day running of the foundation was motivated partly by serious health issues, she revealed to Cointelegraph. However, some NEM supporters werenโ€™t sold on the idea of their leader taking a 6-month paid holiday after just over a year in the job.ย  NEM restructures operations The NEM Foundation announced on April 8th plans for a large-scale restructuring of…

Chinese Blockchain Project Awards $1M to Third-Party Developers

On April 9, Nervos (CKB), a public blockchain network, awarded $1 million dollars to several teams working on enhancements to its infrastructure. This represents the first of numerous upcoming payouts from the networkโ€™s previously announced $30M development fund. $100 M ICO โ€” $30 M development fund In 2018, Nervos completed a successful Initial Coin Offering, or ICO. During this sale, the project raised approximately $100 million. Nervos Network is a two layer blockchain. Its base layer, like Bitcoin (BTC), is secured with the proof-of-work consensus mechanism, while the second layer…