Ford, LG, IBM, and Huayou go Blockchain to Bring Human Rights to Mining

News that changes lives. IBM, Ford Motor, LG Chem, RCS Global and Huayou Cobalt have joined forces to test a blockchain platform that will track supply chain for minerals and its ethical handling. The project aims to use blockchain technology to trade and validate ethically sourced minerals. In other words, they are looking for no […]

Binance Launches New Crypto-Fiat Exchange and Expands to Europe

Shanghai based crypto exchange Binance has launched a new crypto-fiat exchange channel at the same time it has announced its expansion to the European region according to a press release published by the company. “Binance believes Jersey will be a major driving force of increasing cryptocurrency use in the European market,” affirmed the press release. […]

Ethereum’s Upgraded Delayed Due to a Security Alert

Ethereum’s Constantinople upgrade has gotten a delay following a critical security vulnerability identified by the smart contract audit firm ChainSecurity. According to a paper published by Chainsecurity, Constantinople enables new reentrancy attacks directed to “following, a short smart contract which is not vulnerable to a reentrancy attack before Constantinople, but vulnerable afterwards.” Long story short, […]

ICOs Will be Regulated as Securities Offerings in Malaysia

Starting today, all ICO sales will be regulated as security offerings in Malaysia, according to an announcement made by the Securities Commission of Malaysia. According to the note, the Securities Commission Malaysia will enforce guidelines to regulate offering and trading of digital assets. The move follows the statement made by Minister of Finance Tuan Lim […]

Spain’s Repsol to use Blockchain in Safety Certifications

Repsol, the biggest oil company in Spain, has developed a Blockchain powered pilot program to manage the quality and safety of certifications on oil products according to a report published by Business Insider Spain. London based startup Finbook and the Repsol Technology Lab Research Center implemented the Blocklabs, a Blockchain solution to improve the certification […]

New Zealand’s Cryptopia Hacked and Goes Offline

New Zealand’s cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia went offline on January 14th following a hack attack according to a Tweet post published by the company. The exchange is still down with the police taking control of the case. A tweet published at 7:55 PM Auckland time saying Cryptopia was experiencing unscheduled maintenance was the first alarm, “we […]

Authenteq Gets $5 Million for Blockchain ID Technology

Authenteq, the Iceland based identification blockchain startup and creator of the Trollteq technology has raised five million dollars in a Series A funding round according to a report by Venture Beat. The author of the blockchain identity verification technology Trollteq got five million dollars in the first closing of a Series A funding round that […]

Currency.com Launches Trading in Tokenised Securities

Belarus and Gibraltar based exchange currency.com launched a platform that allows customers to trade all kind of securities, according to a press release published by the company. As currency.com website says, “you can now use crypto to trade no-coiner markets like Apple, DAX 30 and Oil with the most powerful platform.” Not only stocks but […]

Spain’s Iberdrola Reviews Renewable Energy Via Blockchain

Spain based energy company Iberdrola launched a platform that tracks the supply of energy in real time and allows the decarbonization process in its systems, all using Blockchain, according to a press release published by the company. In a joint venture with Kutxabank, the completed project tracks energy sources in real time from generation assets […]

Denmark Tax Collector to Check information on Bitcoin Traders

Danish traders will have tax collectors under their shoulders from now on as the Denmark Tax Agency got the authorisation to obtain information on cryptocurrency traders according to a press release published by the Skattestyrelsen. The Tax Council in Denmark gave the green light to the Tax Agency to obtain information on cryptocurrencies trading from […]