Fintech

The Business Blockchain by William Mougayar, featuring foreword by Vitalik Buterin is forthcoming from Wiley.

DigixGlobal's DigixDAO DGD tokens are being added to fully regulated Gatecoin from 29 April.

Barry Silbert's DCG has added Western Union to its investment team and funds run by Prudential and Foxconn.

Credits is partnering with Skyscape Cloud Services Limited, to deliver Blockchain-as-a-Service to UK public sector orgs.

The National Settlement Depository prototype is based on the NXT distributed cryptographic platform.

Clearmatics and OpenGamma demonstrated a proof-of-concept real-time FX swaps using blockchain technology.

Consult Hyperion's David Birch quizzed Nasdaq's Fredrik Voss at European Blockchain Congress in London.

EdgeVerve Systems, a product subsidiary of Infosys, designed the EdgeVerve Blockchain Framework.

Author and fintech expert Haydn Shaughnessy highlights bi-lateral trade corridors China's opening with India and Africa.

The lumens will be given out in several rounds starting on 5 July, proportionate to how much bitcoin people hold.

Darpa wants to use bitcoin blockchain technology to build a secure messaging platform that can't be hacked.

Gem Health will combine secure patient IDs and data records with medical services and supply chain optimisation.

The Gafa companies (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon) have been conspicuously silent on blockchain.

The HEAL Alliance which is the non-profit behind HEAL Bond on Blockchain hopes it will raise $10bn.

Don Tapscott is the author of 15 books about the digital revolution; Alex is CEO of North West Passage Ventures.

BTCC Pool was launched in October 2014, operates on a pay-per-share model, guaranteeing miners a return.

Pilot is being done with NYC-based decentralisation design studio ConsenSys using the Ethereum blockchain.

EDCAB is the only independent European public policy platform for virtual currencies and distributed ledger tech.

SWIFT looked at the gaps in existing DLT solutions and highlighted eight key areas.

Heavyweights of blockchain gathered at the SWIFT Business Forum and Tomorrow's Transactions 2016 to bust the hype.

The first public demo of R3's Corda took place before an audience of over 800 people at The O2 in London.

The Digix DGD asset will trade on OpenLedger from 28 April.

EtherEx has floated crowd sale and ETX token idea to address gas imbalance and drive development of the project.

APPII, a UK based technology start-up, has built the app with London-based Applied Blockchain.

EDCAB founder Siân Jones has an unparalleled legal understanding around cryptocurrency.

The Chinese government's startup investment fund stands at $337bn (£236bn, €299bn)

Banco Emiliano accepts Pamesan cheese as collateral for a loan and holds $187m worth of cheese in its vault.

Cuber uses the coloured coins protocol pioneered by ChromaWay to transact tokens representing euros.

The WAVES open blockchain crowdfund briefly DDoS'd its servers as money poured in.

An article about Airbnb hiring Bitcoin engineers from ChangTip raised speculation about the firm's blockchain plans.