'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.
Consensus 2016: State of Delaware open for blockchain business
Delaware Governor Jack Markell spoke about the blockchain initiative being built by Symbiont.
Ethereum studio ConsenSys announces interoperable Bitcoin service BTC Relay
Using BTC Relay means developers can implement a 'Pay with Bitcoin' button in their Ethereum-based Dapps.
Consensus 2016: Bitcoin takes governance lessons from Ethereum
Governance of Bitcoin was riding high with news that Dr Craig Wright has reiterated that he is Satoshi Nakamoto.
Ethereum and Bitcoin payment provider Plutus announces crowd sale
The startup has released a white paper and welcomed some talent to the team from PayPal, Visa and Morgan Stanley.
Ethereum reinvents companies with launch of The DAO
Some have speculated The DAO token sale could garner as much as $100m worth of ether.
The Business Blockchain by William Mougayar - Review
The Business Blockchain by William Mougayar, featuring foreword by Vitalik Buterin is forthcoming from Wiley.
DigixGlobal adds Ethereum-based DGD tokens to Hong Kong's Gatecoin and China's Yunbi exchanges
DigixGlobal's DigixDAO DGD tokens are being added to fully regulated Gatecoin from 29 April.
Digital Currency Group adds powerhouse of new investors
Barry Silbert's DCG has added Western Union to its investment team and funds run by Prudential and Foxconn.
Credits offers Blockchain-as-a-Service to UK public sector organisations
Credits is partnering with Skyscape Cloud Services Limited, to deliver Blockchain-as-a-Service to UK public sector orgs.
Russia's securities depository tests blockchain-based e-proxy voting
The National Settlement Depository prototype is based on the NXT distributed cryptographic platform.
The subliminal link between the Soviet Union, the 2008 financial crash and blockchains
Clearmatics and OpenGamma demonstrated a proof-of-concept real-time FX swaps using blockchain technology.
Nasdaq shares hands-on experience of capital markets and blockchains
Consult Hyperion's David Birch quizzed Nasdaq's Fredrik Voss at European Blockchain Congress in London.
Infosys launches EdgeVerve blockchain-based banking platform
EdgeVerve Systems, a product subsidiary of Infosys, designed the EdgeVerve Blockchain Framework.
Alibaba advances: How China is using fintech to take control of global trade
Author and fintech expert Haydn Shaughnessy highlights bi-lateral trade corridors China's opening with India and Africa.
Stellar to give away 19 billion lumens to bitcoin holders
The lumens will be given out in several rounds starting on 5 July, proportionate to how much bitcoin people hold.