BLOCKCHAIN

Dr Carsten Stöcker of the innogy Innovation Hub explores IOTA for the machine economy.

The blockchain prototype, done together with trading house Mercuria, coincided with IP Week in London.

Author, investor and Ethereum advisor William Mougayar is a long-time champion of decentralisation.

Academic researcher Primavera De Filippi suggests possible solutions to the problem of decentralised governance.

Thomas Greco and Wendell Davis talked about the project at EDCON in Paris.

Raiden Network CEO Heiko Hees showcases Trustlines project at Edcon in Paris.

Vitalik Buterin kicked off EDCON in Paris with a discussion of economic incentives within blockchains.

Joseph Lubin and Samuel Cassatt were presenting at the Fifty-Fifth Session of the Commission for Social Development.

The Ethereum hedge fund platform Melonport is breaking records in the world of initial coin offerings.

Digix and Monolith to bring back Gold Standard on the Ethereum blockchain.

The pilot scheme in association with EY will use BTL's Interbit platform to cut the costs of energy trading.

'Blockchain, Hyperconnectivity, and the City of the Future' whitepaper released at Dubai's World Government Summit.

Qtum is backed by OkCoin CEO Star Xu, Ethereum's Anthony Di Iorio, Augur's Jeremy Gardner and blockchain advocate Bo Shen.

Integration of blockchain technology with Thales Hardware Security Module addresses key distributed ledger risks for financial services, government, healthcare and other sectors.

IBM blockchain includes Dubai Customs, Dubai Trade and Santander to track the import and export of goods.

A Romanian coder establishes Bitnation domain following corruption protests.

Equibit Development Corporation opened its initial coin offering on February 1st.

IBTimes spoke to Sasha Ivanov during London Blockchain Week 2017.

The Chamber is also hosting annual DC Blockchain Summit with Georgetown University on March 15 & 16.

There was a definite flavour of altruism at last week's London Blockchain Week 2017.

Estonian MoD and Nato will shape how Nato range users will prep for current complex cyber-threat landscape.

Group includes BNY Mellon, Bosch, Cisco, Gemalto, and Foxconn, as well as a host of blockchain start-ups.

Cornell's Emin Gün Sirer, Mihai Alisie of the AKASHA project and Steemit's Dan Larimer weigh up the options.

Hyperledger's Brian Behlendorf discusses abortive attempt to relicense the C++ Ethereum client to the Apache 2.0 licence.

The investment platform also uses the cloud and machine learning to enhance returns.

AdChain is hosting workshop series Xlabs to educate developers on blockchain development.

The lab is funded as a three year partnership with the Centre for Cryptocurrency Research and Engineering (IC3RE) at Imperial.

Study says eight of the world's 10 largest investment banks could save $8 billion to $12 billion annually.

LaborX will include a decentralised reputation system to reward workers in line with their talent and experience.