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China brands ICOs 'illegal fundraising' and bans them outright
The People's Bank of China issued the regulatory statement on its website, Monday 4 September.
Utility Settlement Coin: A blockchain stepping stone to fiat digital currency
Six additional major banks have joined the Utility Settlement Coin project.
Blockchain builder BTL moves to beta of Interbit platform
BTL is preparing patent applications for its Interbit platform expected to be made by no later than Q4 of this year.
Want to pay some tax on your cryptocurrency gains – anyone?
Lykke partners with CryptoTax to provide customers with country-specific tax reports.
The Illinois Blockchain Initiative creates self-sovereign identity at birth
In partnership with Evernym to create a secure self-sovereign identity for Illinois citizens during the birth registration process.
Nuco's Matthew Spoke: Today's blockchains don't talk to each other – but they will
Aion will allow instant, global transfer and recording of data and value between blockchains
When a machine is the customer – designing for machines
Dr. Carsten Stöcker is Senior Manager in the Machine Economy Innovation Lighthouse Lead at innogy SE.
DFINITY announces 'infinite blockchain computer'
DFINITY combines the deterministic properties of blockchains with random number generating algorithms.
Blockchain 'Atomic Ledger' experiment records 20 million timestamped stock trades
The experiment involved the National Physical Laboratory, the Toronto Stock Exchange (TMX), and Z/Yen.
Coinsilium to launch Terrastream for Gibraltar's blockchain regulatory framework
Gibraltar is expected to become the first jurisdiction globally to develop a regulatory framework for blockchains.
Ethereum identity system uPort working with Brazil's Ministry of Planning
uPort is a self-sovereign identity system that allows people to own their identity and control the flow of their personal information.
Bitcoin anonymity busted by retail website cookies
Once-anonymous cryptocurrency users can be identified by web cookie data, researchers warn.
IBM enlists Walmart, Nestlé, Unilever, Dole for food safety blockchain
The IBM Blockchain Platform solution also includes Golden State Foods, Kroger, McCormick and Company and more.
R3 and Synechron collaborate on phase 2 of corporate KYC
The LEIA 2 project includes 12 banks and follows on from the KYC work already carried out by R3 with its members.
John McAfee: Why the word 'bubble' cannot be applied to bitcoin
Cybersecurity expert sheds light on the new currency paradigm.
Russia's central securities depository and Waves building blockchain platform
Russia's National Settlement Depository (NSD) has kickstarted a crypto assets platform with the Waves team.
Synereo launches WildSpark to reward content creation with cryptocurrency
Incentives on WildSpark are facilitated by AMP, the cryptocurrency token issued by Synereo in 2015.
Blockchain, big data and the value of global trade
Blockchain and data science experts talk about the hidden value of distributed ledger technology.
Solidum Partners completes first catastrophe bond on a blockchain
$148m of notes were settled using the ILSBlockchain.
Eleven banks develop trade finance app on R3's Corda DLT platform
App built following twelve months of development and testing, holds potential to improve trade flows, particularly for SMEs in developing economies.
Hard forks and contract hacks – Tezos aims to solve blockchain's problems
Tezos is a smart contract blockchain platform that recently raised $232m.
Could there be a national cryptocurrency? The 21st century gold standard
Luis Cuende is co-founder and project lead of Aragon, co-founder of Stampery and creator of world's first Linux distro with facelogin.
MultiChain 1.0 released: Gideon Greenspan muses on blockchain privacy and smart contract languages
MultiChain's partner programme includes the likes of Accenture, Cognizant and Medici Ventures.
Canada's ETHWaterloo to be world's largest Ethereum hackathon
Ethereum chief scientist Vitalik Buterin dropped out of University of Waterloo, Ontario.
Solar power can make you rich: Users could sell electricity to neighbours using blockchain
LO3 Energy wants to enable people to make peer-to-peer energy transactions with other users across the grid.
Alex Tapscott launches digital asset investment firm NextBlock Global with $20m financing
NextBlock Global will immediately give investors diversified exposure to the most promising investments.
R3's Richard Brown: IBM should adopt Corda
Richard Gendal Brown, chief technology officer at R3, was previously executive architect for banking and financial markets at IBM.
Accord Project joins Hyperledger to push standards for smart contracts
Hyperledger welcomed 10 new members in total.
There is no 'but it's blockchain' exemption in US Securities law
Stephen D. Palley, a lawyer in the Washington D.C. office of Anderson Kill, talks about token sales.
IOTA Foundation partners with Imperial College London to drive Tangle DLT
Imperial will help build IOTA protocol enhancements, PoCs and data visualisation of the IOTA 'Tangle'.

