Blockchain

Cryptocurrency exchanges in the EU and UK are set to face increased regulation from next year amid concerns they could be used for money laundering and tax evasion.

The report, 'Distributed Ledger Technologies for Public Good: leadership, collaboration and innovation' was released this week by Lord Holmes of Richmond.

Some of the most popular cryptocurrency apps on Google Play, the official Android marketplace, have severe security issues that could leave online currency open to hacking.

Global media agency Mindshare partners with Singpore's high speed blockchain Zilliqa to test media applications

Infosys Finacle launched a pilot trade finance network with 11 banks to trial the Finacle Trade Connect solution.

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.

TOBAM has about $8.8bn in AUM and counts the California Public Employees' Retirement System as a minority shareholder.

New strategic investment enables faster blockchain deployments with Japanese businesses.

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 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.

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.

Software rollout also doubles Dash transaction capacity; which is now 8 times the capacity of Bitcoin.

Approximately $280m worth of the cryptocurrency Ethereum has been frozen in time – and potentially lost forever – after a critical bug was accidentally triggered.

The man on the street still doesn't know what bitcoin actually is, despite the huge growth it has experienced.

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.