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Samsung announces NFT platform for smart TVs

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South Korean tech giant Samsung revealed a new smart TV lineup with an integrated NFT platform. Samsung’s 2022 smart TVs such as Micro LED, Neo QLED and The Frame will have an NFT Platform app that can be used “for discovering, purchasing and trading digital artwork,” according to the announcement on Monday. “With demand for NFTs on the rise, the need for a solution to today’s fragmented viewing and purchasing landscape has never been greater,” the company noted. In 2022, the company aims to introduce the first smart TV NFT explorer…

Trading Platform Robinhood Announces Upcoming Launch of Cryptocurrency Wallets – Wallets Bitcoin News

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Trading platform Robinhood has announced the beta launch of its cryptocurrency wallets, which is set for mid-January. The company said 1.6 million people have signed up for the crypto wallets. Robinhood’s Crypto Wallets to Launch in Beta This Month Robinhood announced this week the upcoming beta launch of its highly anticipated cryptocurrency wallets. The company unveiled its crypto wallet project in September to allow customers to trade, send, and receive cryptocurrencies using the Robinhood app. Noting that 1.6 million people have signed up for its crypto wallets so far, the…

Siemens-backed blockchain energy platform showcases in Germany

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A blockchain-based energy trading platform backed by German tech giant Siemens is being publicly demonstrated in a Bavarian municipality today. The so-called “Pebbles” project — short for “peer-to-peer energy trading based on blockchains” — is holding a virtual demo of its blockchain-based marketplace platform for optimized electricity trading. The demo was officially announced by the project on Oct. 22. The public demonstration of Pebbles’ energy platform in the town of Wildpoldsried in Bavarian marks a major milestone after the project was launched in March 2018. Funded by German Federal Ministry…

CasperLabs readies blockchain platform for 2021 mainnet launch with $14M private sale

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CasperLabs has raised $14 million in a private validator token sale, with over a dozen investors participating in a round led by Digital Strategies. The company expects to launch its public mainnet in the first quarter of 2021, followed by a public token offering which will exclude U.S. investors.  In 2018, CasperLabs raised $14.5 million in an equity Series A round led by Terren Piezer. The original plan provisioned for an Exchange Validator Offering on the BitMax exchange, but the recent announcement makes no mention of the exchange. Casper started out…

Nine Chilean cargo shipping companies approved to develop joint blockchain platform

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Chile’s National Economic Prosecutor’s Office, or FNE, has granted approval to nine national freight maritime cargo companies to establish a joint venture to develop a blockchain platform, the first of its kind in the region. According to MundoMaritimo.cl, the platform will be named Global Shipping Business Network, or GSBN. It aims to handle all the processes related to maritime cargo such as document issuance and cargo clearance, among other services. The solution is also expected to be offered to other companies in the industry and not just those involved in…

Agriculture giants team up on blockchain platform to track grains in Brazil

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The world’s largest grains and oilseeds companies, American giants Bunge and Cargill, have joined together to create the joint venture Covantis, which will use blockchain technology in the agricultural sector in Brazil. The unprecedented project foresees the exchange of information between all members of Covantis, which also includes the participation of other agribusiness giants such as the French Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC), the Chinese state-owned company Cofco International and the Dutch multinational Glencore Agriculture. Together the companies that make up Covantis move around 550 million tons of grains and oilseeds…

Global shipping leaders join IBM and Maersk blockchain platform

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Two of the world’s largest container carriers announced a full integration onto IBM and Maersk’s TradeLens blockchain platform. CMA CGM, a French container and shipping company, along with MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company have joined the TradeLens network to enable a complete digital transformation of their supply chains. Marvin Erdly, head of TradeLens for IBM Blockchain, told Cointelegraph that as supply chains become digitized, manual paper-based processes, like processing bills of lading, are removed from the equation. “These processes are now embedded in blockchain networks and smart contracts that are trusted…

DBS and Standard Chartered to launch blockchain platform to curb trade finance fraud

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The Singapore-based multinational banking entity DBS and Standard Chartered have completed the proof-of-oncept of their blockchain trade finance platform called the Trade Finance Registry. The two entities developed the PoC in collaboration with 12 other banks on top of the blockchain platform of Singapore-headquartered company dltledgers. dltledgers told Cointelegraph that the banks involved in the project now intend to launch the platform for commercial use by central banks around the globe. While the platform will first be used by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the entities involved in the project…

Suspended ePayments platform will relaunch without crypto

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The ePayments online money transfer platform is restarting services following a seven month suspension – and notably absent this time around is support for cryptocurrencies. ePayments is a global money transfer service that boasts over 1 million accounts and has issued 75,000 debit cards. According to their regulator filings, the firm made profits of $US23.2 million in 2019. The company has announced that it is preparing to “start working again” but as cryptocurrency accounted for one fifth of its business, relaunching without it is notable. We are getting ready to…

Russia’s largest bank joins blockchain trade finance platform

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A subsidiary of Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, has joined a blockchain-based platform for commodity trade finance. Sberbank Switzerland AG has signed an agreement with Swiss trade finance platform Komgo to apply its blockchain-powered trade finance service. Representatives from Sberbank Switzerland AG told Cointelegraph that the collaboration with Komgo addresses the growing digitization of trade finance. Evgeny Kravchenko, head of trade finance at Sberbank, outlined that commodity trade finance is a strategic business of Sberbank Switzerland AG. According to the executive, Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States’ countries are the…