Pacific International Lines used the electronic Bill of Lading (e-BL) built on the IBM Blockchain Platform to complete a successful real-time tracking shipment of mandarin oranges from China for the Lunar New Year. Combining e-BL with blockchain technology will enable companies to reduce their document...
Binance is allowing users to buy digital currencies with their credit cards, according to an announcement from the crypto exchange. Through the offering, and in conjunction with payment processing firm Simplex, the company is enabling customers to buy the Ethereum, bitcoin and Litecoin digital currencies....
Elementus, a data analytics firm, claims that a hacker has taken an additional $181,000 worth of ether from the Cryptopia digital currency exchange, CoinDesk reported. The news comes a week after the firm said that roughly $16 million in ERC-20 and ether was taken from...
For cryptos to be used in the real world to buy and sell things — what a concept! — might academics succeed where entrepreneurs have not, at least so far? News comes that a number of high-powered bastions of higher learning have banded together to...
SBI Holdings subsidiary SBI Crypto Investment has backed BRD, a Swiss digital currency wallet firm, with a $15 million Series B investment, Deal Street Asia reported. The firm plans to put the funds towards growth in Asia as well as platform development. BRD co-founder and...
Francesco Firano, founder of cryptocurrency exchange BitGrail, has been ordered to repay the $170 million worth of cryptocurrency that allegedly went missing last year. According to The Next Web, an Italian judge ordered that Firano must declare bankruptcy, hand over personal assets and return as...
Business for bitcoin ATM companies seems to be booming, with Coin ATM Radar estimating that there are now 4,213 cryptocurrency ATM machines around the globe, most only offering bitcoin. Matias Goldenhörn, director of Latin America operations at the ATM operator Athena Bitcoin, told CoinDesk that the...
Chainalysis unveiled an anti-money laundering (AML) compliance solution for stablecoins called Know Your Transaction (KYT), the company said in an announcement. The product seeks to track stablecoins through every transaction, with the inclusion of redemption and issuance. Chainalysis COO Jonathan Levin said in the announcement,...
There are few familiar places in the regular life of a consumer other than the grocery store, and that familiarity can breed a type of trust, a sense that nothing too weird or threatening will happen there. That doesn’t mean they can’t be about innovation....
