Digital Assets

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...

Microsoft's Azure cloud service has unveiled the first "certified offering" for its Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform. The certified software is STRATO, a developer sandbox for testing Ethereum blockchain applications built by Blockapps. The offering includes an API for connecting applications to private,...

Japan’s Financial Services Agency has proposed treating Bitcoin and other digital currencies in the same way as conventional currencies, according to country’sNikkei news service. The regulating agency’s legislative changes identify bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies as conforming to the same...

The governor of the People's Bank of China, Zhou Xiaochuan, said in an interview that digital currencies will inevitably replace cash, but they will be regulated if used as legal tender. Zhou noted that the...

Estonia has been pushing boundaries by launching its Estonian e-Residency program, which allows anyone in the world to become a digital resident of Estonia, allowing people to found and manage Estonian companies online and...

There was consensus among speakers the Block Chain Conference in San Francisco last week that collaboration toward a "scalable standard for blockchain technology" was essential for its adoption by the global financial industry. The conference also determined that the blockchain ecosystem has been...

Digital Asset Holdings, a blockchain technologies developer for the financial services industry, have announced today that Goldman Sachs and IBM have joined its recently announced funding round raising the total capital to more than $60 million from 15...

Digital security giant Gemalto and Symbiont, the smart securities platform developer, have announced they are working together to enable financial services organizations to securely execute smart contracts and other blockchain-based transactions. Through their partnership, Symbiont will...

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the US post-trade financial services company providing clearing and settlement services to the financial markets, has released a white paper that calls for financial sector collaboration in...

One question at a Hong Kong blockchain conference yesterday shook up perspectives of R3's ambitious plan with 42 major banks to develop blockchain technology for the global financial sector. The questions was simply "Where is China?". The...