Government

Chain-Finance had the opportunity to ask Professor Michael Mainelli, Executive Chairman of Z/Yen, some questions about the London group's blockchain technology joint venture with the Channel Island of Alderney. Called MetroGnomo, the experimental timestamping service utilizes Z/Yen's ChainZy mutual...

The newly formed European Digital Currency & Blockchain Forum (EDCAB) held a conference this week inside the European Parliament. EDCAB hosted major financial institutions like Barclays and Nasdaq, leaders from the digital currency and blockchain...

ConsenSys, an Ethereum-focused venture production studio, yesterday unveiled a platform called Regis, which makes it easy to build, deploy, and manage decentralized registries on the Ethereum blockchain. Regis permits users to design and maintain user-defined...

The government of Alderney, the northernmost of the Channel Islands, is experimenting with a blockchain-based online timestamping service through a project called MetroGnomo,  live since 1 January 2016. The experimental timestamping service utilizes the ChainZy mutual distributed ledger technology developed by...

UK Financial Conduct Authority and Australian Securities & Investment Commission have signed a co-operation agreement. The purpose of the agreement is to improve sharing of information between the regulators and refer fintech businesses from their respective...

Chain-Finance got the opportunity to speak to Pavel Kravchenko, the founder of Distributed Lab and project lead on EAuction.io, a blockchain-based decentralized auction system for state property privatization and leasing. The project's government and private partners recently signed a memorandum on...

The research arm of German banking giant Deutsche Bank in a recent report stated that blockchain technology is turning "tried-and-tested business models...on their head." The report's author, DB Research Economist Thomas-Frank Dapp, indicates that this is...

White & Case, the ninth-largest law firm in the United States as of 2015, highlights the advent of blockchain technology in financial services in a recent report. Two lawyers in the firm, Kevin Petrasic and...

(A special thanks to Simon Taylor who was instrumental in much of my thinking through conversations we had around this topic. His input was invaluable) This post will explore how transactions will be validated using...

A report from the MIT Technological Review has revealed a new type of cryptocurrency that is being developed on behalf of the Bank of England. Two researchers from UCL, Sarah Meiklejohn and George Danezis, have...