BLOCKCHAIN

'The original vision of the web was that anybody could create and own their website. It was creative and diverse. Now, all that power to create is on other people's servers.'

Steve Giguere, engineer at Synopsys, provides a comprehensive explainer here for crypo-n00bs.

Blockchain platform Zilliqa introduces Scilla, a language for formally verified smart contracts

Overstock chief Patrick Byrne says it continues his commitment to bridging Wall Street and e-commerce.

Sovrin is working on a system of standards called 'verifiable claims' along with W3C and the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF).

Launched by IHS Markit in 2014, kyc.com serves 17 global banks and over 140,000 registered legal entities.

The Maker team plans to launch Multi Collateral Dai with a three billion debt ceiling for DGX.

UK's Provenance is one of the first two companies in the portfolio, which is focused on ethical supply chain development.

Ex Lloyds forex chief Darren Coote has also invested in Cobalt.

Blockchain takes away the power from social media giants by giving the ownership of data back to users.

Blockstack's Muneeb Ali refers to Google's motto – 'Don't be evil', and says shouldn't it be, 'can't be evil'?

The Spherity team consider liquid supply medium exchange: continuous transactions, token streaming and digital twins. 

Status, which last year tokenised to the tune of about $100m, has sunk $5m into non-blockchain decentralisation technology Matrix.

ShoCard removes the need for authentication data to be stored on an organisation's databases.

Mercuria, Vattenfall, Petroineos and Freepoint are also joining phase two of BTL's 'OneOffice' trading project.

The enhanced Easy Trading Connect (ETC) blockchain prototype was coordinated by seller Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC); the buyer was Shandong Bohi Industry in China.

Æternity had initially offered a reward of 10% of the funds taken; it's now 20%.

The Rare Digital Art Festival, which took place in New York City last week, was packed to the rafters.

Republic Protocol is building a decentralized open-source dark pool protocol for the trading of cryptocurrency pairs across the Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains.

Cryptocurrency platform joins forces with trusted identity verification expert to comply with KYC regulations.

KODAKCoin will be the first third-party security token to launch on tZERO.

Logistics joint venture plans industry advisory body so suite of products it creates meets the needs of all participants.

SWIFT and central securities depositories join forces to demonstrate the value of standards in DLT for securities markets, such as proxy voting and digital assets.

Bitmark is working with investment group KKFarm and CTBC, the Chinese bank.

Everledger has partnered with renowned gemmological laboratory Gübelin Gem Lab, creator of the Provenance Proof initiative.

Jon Duschinsky, Senior Advisor, Giftcoin, looks at the emerging world of 'cryptophilanthropy'.

Ram Komarraju, Head of Innovation and Technology Delivery at CLS, talks about bridging the gap between legacy systems and blockchain.

Founder Dominic Williams says it's not just about creating decentralised systems, but also to knock 80% off the cost of developing and maintaining traditional business IT.

The internet's original vision was to create a decentralized and neutral platform that gave everyone equal access to services, content, and publishing tools.