Europe looks more and more like heaven for blockchain startups. European Commission announced that the region has already invested more than €80 million in blockchain projects and about €300 million more are to be invested in blockchain by 2020. According to Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, Europe has great plans on blockchain: "In the future, all … [Read more...] about PR: IDACB to meet the second largest investor in the world within World Blockchain Roadshow

When will smart contracts go mainstream? Recent events have shown that it can happen in the nearest future. In August, Barclays has announced a blockchain hackathon, the World Bank has ordered the creation of a blockchain-based bond. In July, multinational Spanish banking group BBVA provided a corporate loan of €100 using blockchain. At Credits, we analyze market events and … [Read more...] about PR: Smart contracts and the future of financial operations

Evident Proof, a blockchain platform built to provide innovative data verification and proof services, has been selected as a finalist in the UK Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award category in the 2018 UK IT Industry Awards. … [Read more...] about PR: Evident Proof shortlisted for 2018 UK IT Industry Awards

Two of the world’s most exciting not-for-profit blockchain projects have joined forces to help the world meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. … [Read more...] about PR: Blockchain pioneers team up to change how the world finances sustainability

As of this writing, there are well over 1,800 cryptocurrency coins and tokens traded on the open market, which is more than ten times more currencies than the exactly 180 fiat currencies recognized by the United Nations. Fiat currencies can easily be traded for one another across borders through protocols such as SWIFT. But until now, there has not been any similar solution for … [Read more...] about PR: Laser Network announces availability of whitelist and date of crowdsale launch

Blockchain-based FanX International launches platform-agnostic social media ecosystem that quantifies and captures social media contribution, and rewards users and content providers (CP) with FanX tokens. FanX is operated by FanX International Pte Ltd a big data analytics and AI technology platform specializing in the gathering, analyzing, and quantifying social media … [Read more...] about FanX International is empowering fan communities by rewarding social media users and content providers based on their contributions

Decentralized Vision, the blockchain company that developed the PumaPay PullPayment Protocol, announces its collaboration with Wix.com Ltd. Wix has chosen to add PumaPay’s PullPayment Protocol, a blockchain payment method, as one of its billing methods to Wix, which could enable its merchants to accept payments in PMA via their Wix websites. … [Read more...] about PumaPay to be added to Wix Payments as a new recurring payment method

The gaming industry is one of the leading in the world and Korea is one of the forerunners when it comes to games. There is hardly a person in the civilized world who has not been affected by video games. And now, with the advent of blockchain technologies, the gaming industry is sure to receive a completely new impetus for development. … [Read more...] about PR: Blockchain gaming strikes