Tag: BlockchainBased

Startup Finturi Raises $2.2 Million for Its Blockchain-Based Invoice Finance Platform

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Dutch blockchain startup Finturi has secured 2 million euro ($2.2 million) to enable businesses to secure loans against invoices via blockchain tech, the company tweeted on March 12. Founded in September 2018, Finturi aims to help businesses finance invoices by linking them with financiers to borrow money against invoices, using blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI), according to a report by startup-focused publication EU-Startups.com on March 11. Finturi has reportedly raised its first investment via an angel round led by NetSam Participaties BV, which evidently participated in an investment round for…

ECCU Plans to Issue World’s First Blockchain-Based Central Bank Digital Currency in the Caribbean

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About Richard Kastelein Founder and publisher of industry publication Blockchain News (EST 2015), partner at ICO services collective CryptoAsset Design Group ($500m+ and 50+ ICOs), director of education company Blockchain Partners (Oracle Partner) – Vancouver native Richard Kastelein is an award-winning publisher, innovation executive and entrepreneur. He sits on the advisory boards of some two dozen Blockchain startupsand has written over 1500 articles on Blockchain technology andstartups at Blockchain News and has also published pioneering articles on ICOs in Harvard Business Review and Venturebeat Ad honorem – Honorary Ph.d –…

ECCU Plans to Issue World’s First Blockchain-Based Central Bank Digital Currency in the Caribbean

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About Richard Kastelein Founder and publisher of industry publication Blockchain News (EST 2015), partner at ICO services collective CryptoAsset Design Group ($500m+ and 50+ ICOs), director of education company Blockchain Partners (Oracle Partner) – Vancouver native Richard Kastelein is an award-winning publisher, innovation executive and entrepreneur. He sits on the advisory boards of some two dozen Blockchain startupsand has written over 1500 articles on Blockchain technology andstartups at Blockchain News and has also published pioneering articles on ICOs in Harvard Business Review and Venturebeat Ad honorem – Honorary Ph.d –…

Unity Unveils Patent for Blockchain-Based, Uniquely Identified In-Game Token System

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The Danish parent company of game engine developer Unity has applied for a patent related to in-game cryptocurrency tokens, documents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office revealed on March 5. Unity Technologies, whose software its CEO says is used by about half of the world’s video games, is now targeting missing links in the in-game token market. “There are currently no known ways to assign objects (both physical and virtual) to unique identifiers and allow those objects to be altered, transferred, swapped, exchanged, traded, given, and associated with…

Ruling Russian Political Party Launches Blockchain-Based E-Voting

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The ruling party of the Russian Federation, United Russia, has launched a blockchain-based platform for electronic voting, local news agency TASS reported on March 6. United Russia has reportedly launched an updated website for its primaries with the added function of e-voting. The party’s head of IT projects Vyacheslav Sateyev said that the vote counting process will be implemented using blockchain technology. He also stated: “Candidates will be able to fill in their personal pages on this site, including posting news, videos, photos, distributing their pages. The personal account is…

Swiss Stock Exchange SIX to Use R3 Corda Enterprise for Blockchain-Based Trading Platform

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Switzerland‘s principal stock exchange, SIX Swiss Exchange, has chosen to use blockchain consortium R3’s Corda Enterprise platform for its forthcoming blockchain-powered digital exchange. The news was revealed during the R3-hosted Corda Day event in Singapore on March 6. The SIX Swiss Exchange sees roughly 4.62 billion Swiss Francs (CHF) (~$4.6 billion) in daily turnover, and has a market capitalization of over 1.67 trillion CHF ~($1.6 trillion). As Cointelegraph reported in July 2018, SIX previously unveiled its plans to launch a digital asset ecosystem, dubbed Six Digital Exchange (SDX). In February…

Blockchain-Based Journalism Platform Civil Launches

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Blockchain-based journalism network Civil has announced its launch in an official blog post on March 1. Civil is a platform for independent journalism that aims to develop an alternative model to support journalism. The project’s ecosystem has its native CVL token —  the amount of which will be limited to 100 million — that purports to provide financial sustainability and improve trust in journalism. Starting March 6, users will purportedly be able to purchase Civil membership, including CVL which will represent members’ voting power within the Civil ecosystem. “Thirty-four million…

SWIFT, HSBC, Deutsche Bank to Conduct Blockchain-Based E-Voting PoC

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Global financial messaging network, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), is carrying out a blockchain-based shareholder e-voting proof-of-concept (PoC) with major financial institutions. SWIFT announced the news in a press release published on March 6. Per the press release, the PoC will be jointly conducted in the Asia Pacific region with Deutsche Bank, DBS, HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank, securities software provider SLI and the Singapore Exchange (SGX). The test is meant to establish whether distributed ledger technology (DLT) can simplify the management of shareholder meetings. More precisely, the…

Swedish Digital Marketing Firm Launches Blockchain-Based Ad Network

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Swedish digital marketing company Tradedoubler has launched a blockchain-based platform to connect publishers with advertisers, according to a press release published on Feb. 27. The digital ad network, which will serve as a decentralized data storage, enables automated and more transparent interactions between advertisers and publishers, or websites looking to host ads. The platform is scheduled to launch on March 20, 2019, with other functionalities to be introduced in the second half of 2019. The publisher’s interface, which will be the first solution available, includes such features as product feeds,…

Ohio County Auditors to Explore Blockchain-Based Real Estate System

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The County Auditors’ Association of Ohio (CAAO) has announced the formation of a working group to study the use of blockchain for the effective transfer of property deeds. The news was reported on Feb. 21 by Ohio-based blockchain startup SafeChain — the technical advisor for the multi-county initiative. The association’s collaborative effort will reportedly test the use of blockchain technology to bring efficiency gains to the execution and management of real estate transactions and the transfer of land titles across multiple counties. Their ongoing projects will be reportedly be reviewed…