Microsoft to be main sponsor of Ethereum Devcon2 in Shanghai
The Ethereum Foundation welcomes Microsoft as the Premiere Sponsor of Devcon2, Shanghai 19-21 September, 2016.
Poker and gaming token Breakout Coin opens crowdsale on Bittrex
The cryptocurrency which powers poker and gaming sites aims to sell 6.6 million tokens over the next 24 days.
DigixDAO tokens to trade on Bittrex exchange
Trading of DigixDAO tokens is expected to begin on Bittrex on Tuesday, June 14 at 17:00 UTC.
Chinese mining giant BTCC talks about Bitcoin $700 price pop
IBTimes talked to Samson Mow of Bitcoin conglomerate BTCC at the recent Consensus 2016 conference in NYC.
WAVES blockchain raises $16m after 'tsunami of Bitcoins' floods last days of crowdsale
WAVES raised 29634 Bitcoin via the initial coin offering (ICO) website and 460 in NXT Asset Swaps.
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen meets with blockchain experts in Washington DC
The Federal Reserve, IMF and World Bank heard from the Chamber of Digital Commerce, Chain and Bloq.
Ethereum prediction market Augur teams up with blockchain security experts Airbitz
Airbitz Edge Security encrypts, backs up, and synchronises private keys and account data across devices.
ConsenSys and Microsoft tackle human rights abuses with blockchain-based identity system
Ethereum-based ConsenSys rallied support for its uPort identity system at ID2020 at the United Nations.
What the European Parliament vote on cryptocurrency regulation really means
Siân Jones, of the European Digital Currency and Blockchain Technology Forum explains the recent MEP vote
Santander first UK bank to do blockchain-based international payments using Ripple
The new application is currently being rolled out as a staff pilot for payments of between £10 and £10,000.
Ethereum engineering course puts accreditation on the blockchain
The course from B9Lab aims to train 1000 developers this year and five times that amount the following year.
Cross-border payments experts debate Bitcoin remittances
IBTimes heard from Align Commerce, Azimo, WorldRemit and Blockchain Technology Limited (BTL).
Jeff Garzik's Bloq runs smart contracts like an 'Ethereum plug-in for Bitcoin'
BloqEnterrpise promises Turing-complete smart contracts plugged into Bitcoin, written in JavaScript and Python
Ping An becomes first Chinese institution to join R3 blockchain consortium
Ping An joins the global network of R3 partners united in its lab environment, the R3 Lab and Research Centre,
Meet blockchain-based sovereign ID ObjectChain Collab: the 'R3 of distributed identity'
IBTimes spoke to ObjectChain Collab MD Paul Ferris, who recently presented the idea at Consensus 2016 in NYC.
'Decentralised Uber' Arcade City wins Europe's biggest blockchain competition
GTEC handed out €50,000 in prizes to winners Arcade City, CargoChain, Clipperz and Helperbitz.
RISE Financial Technologies proffers 'secret sauce' for privacy on post-trade blockchains
CEO Thorsten Peisl: 'Transparency, the great benefit of blockchain, is an obstacle for financial services in particular.'
Ethereum's Viktor Trón talks about Swarm and the skeleton of Web 3.0
Swarm, the decentralised file storage and distribution solution, has just released its orange paper.
Tax incentives on charity donations 'skewed' in favour of businesses and the wealthy
CAF's Donation States study compares the way tax incentives for charitable donations are offered across the world.
Artificial intelligence agent Amelia sympathises with you while replacing lost bank cards
IPsoft's virtual agent technology is aimed at banking, insurance and travel industries.
Hedge funds, big data and tail risk – the Millennium Bridge example
Jeremy Sosabowski PhD, CEO & co-founder, AlgoDynamix, talks about identifying endogenous portfolio risk.
Genesis Mining launches Enigma, the world's largest ether cloud mining farm
Ether (ETH) is the native token of the Ethereum, used to power applications on the Ethereum blockchain.
Lisk releases modular cryptocurrency with sidechains
Lisk, which raised $6.5m in a crowdsale, 'is an app store for peer-to-peer apps for a blockchain or its sidechains'.
Ukraine's government and biggest banks fight corruption with blockchain-based property auction
Ukraine's Distributed Lab launched the eAuction platform in February with Oschadbank, PrivatBank and Microsoft.
R3's David Rutter on partnering with fintech firms across payments and smart contracts
Exclusive: IBTimes interviews David Rutter, the boss of banking technology consortium R3CEV.
SWIFT blockchain research warns of 'unrealistic expectations' and 'little short term payoff'
SWIFT Institute conducted interview and focus groups with 75 technology and post-trade processing companies.
Blockchain platform WAVES partners with 'Swiss knife' Bitcoin wallet Mycelium
Both WAVES and Mycelium are in the middle of crowdfunding campaigns.
Chain's Adam Ludwin: Financial services will become a software business
IBTimes spoke to Adam Ludwin, co-founder and CEO of Chain.com at Consensus 2016 conference in New York City.
Consensus 2016: Raising capital using 'blockchain' and the DLT centralisation paradox
Day at Consensus in NYC included how to avoid enterprise software hype cycles and banking collapses.
Deloitte to build Ethereum-based 'digital bank' with New York City's ConsenSys
Deloitte also announced blockchain partnerships with Bloq, Stellar and BlockCypher.
