BLOCKCHAIN

Digix raised $1.25m in its seed round led by Japanese VC Global Brain, and joined by Fenbushi Capital, Asia's most active blockchain-focused venture capital fund.

Joel John, lead researcher for Blockchain-focused VC firm Outlier Ventures, looks at the history of blockchain's promise of financial inclusion.

The private placements of C$15.3 million (£9m) will see Interbit go live in early 2018.

Former CEO of T. Rowe Price Global Investment Services joins the decentralised asset management technology developer as an advisor and member of Melon Foundation.

It's significant that Ethereum design studio, ConsenSys, has chosen London to host its 'European Hub'.

Enables seamless integration of SQL Database and in the future other services such as Azure Active Directory, Key Vault, and Express Route.

The London hub in Shoreditch has space for 60 ConsenSys members and sponsored projects.

The process of 're-imagining' Singapore's interbank RTGS system using blockchain involved R3 Corda, JP Morgan Quorum and Hyperledger Fabric.

The tZERO sale will begin on December 18, 2017 using the Simple Agreement for Future Tokens (or SAFT).

The bank's Zero-Knowledge Range Proof (ZKRP) solution at the inaugural Enterprise Ethereum Alliance Event in Amsterdam.

Igor Barinov is co-founder and product manager of Oracles Network.

Nuco has been awarded funding under the Small Business Innovation Challenge (SBIC) program delivered by Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE).

Nathan Shedroff is Executive Director at Seed Vault Ltd

Bigger than Bitcoin & more valuable than Gold, say David Parsons, Blockchain Economist, and Antony Abell, MD of TrustMe™

The blockchain investment company establishes major joint venture to bring funding to startups building on Steem.

FBG Capital announces a strategic partnership with the high-throughput blockchain platform developed at the National University of Singapore.

The Corda partner network is made up of technology firms such as Microsoft, HPE and Intel, consulting firms including EY, Accenture and KPMG.

HPE's industry-first Mission Critical Distributed Ledger Technology helps customers deploy blockchain solutions quickly and easily.

Speakers include Filecoin's Juan Benet, the Lightning Network's Joseph Poon and former Federal Prosecutor Kathryn Haun.

The blockchain-based land-titling project is being presented at both Harvard and the United Nations.

Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE has successfully trialled blockchain technology for a global 'captive' insurance program including cash transfer between countries.

Andrew Trask, founder of the OpenMined project, will be talking about homomorphic encryption and deep learning at Newsweek's AI and data science conference in New York.

Founded by Stanford, Harvard and White House Alumni, Mobius helps consumer-facing apps with a scalable and secure integration that accepts blockchain payments.

Partnering with The Great Lakes Coffee and Coda Coffee Company, bext360 will trace coffee from Uganda to Denver, Colorado.

The big announcement comes just as Indorse officially applies for inclusion on the adChain registry.

Enterprise software firm R3 and 22 of its member banks have developed a solution that leverages distributed ledger technology.

KyberNetwork will integrate with Catalyst as a data provider and as an exchange service.

Old to new: Ken Tregidgo, deputy CEO, Calastone talks about making the move from analogue to digital distribution.

Symbiont CEO Mark Smith will present the keynote at Blockchain for Wall Street, the WSBA's annual education day, taking place on November 14th, 2017 at the New York Law School.