In 2022, it’s hard to find even one millennial who is not aware of NFTs. With NFTs, they are undergoing a self transition to riches. NFTs have turned them into investors and all credits to blockchain technology! With the NFT market getting huge with every passing day, it also shows …
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Blockchain news for the blockchain technology professional. Covering distributed ledger technologies, cryptocurrency, enterprise applications and more.
Blockchain provides a record of just about any transaction. The rise of bitcoin helped bring blockchain technology into the limelight. As a result, many people still associate blockchain with cryptocurrencies. However, the application of blockchain technology has expanded beyond bitcoin, ether, and generally the cryptocurrency world. Companies across industries are …
Steve Treagust, vice-president, industries program management at IFS, discusses the role blockchain plays in supply chain management. Some organisations associate blockchain with cryptocurrencies or the dark web — but not as having relevance for general supply chain operations. Others, however, understand that it can be disruptive technologies that solve logistical …
Providing a legal identity for all of the world’s population by 2030 is one of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals – and may be more relevant than ever with talks of new coronavirus immunity ID documents underway. In order to have an idea of the status of the world’s current identity …
The reason I was initially interested in blockchain was the promise, I had been told, of this revolutionary technology to bring “the disinfectant sunlight” of transparency to supply chains, and allow companies and consumers to understand the provenance of the products they are purchasing. I could see how this tech …
Blockchain applications are suitable across industries due to their security, immutability and decentralised properties. This means the next wave of new technology jobs would come from blockchain. Blockchain is hot news these days. There was a time, in the not so distant past, when working-age people were going after analytics …
Blockchain benefits are driven by network effects: the more participants on a shared platform, the greater its potential value. Yet executives have found it’s a struggle to align the support of their ecosystems. At stake is the potential to unlock trillions of dollars of value by removing friction and opening …
In a webinar earlier this year, Amazon provided information on Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) and Amazon Managed Blockchain. From what was shown, it’s clear that the products are very early, still in preview, that they aren’t integrated, but that Amazon does seem to be moving forward based on a clear …
Throughout the expansion of blockchain into enterprise usage, there has been a steady ‘arms’ race developing between vehicle manufacturers looking to integrate the technology for better efficiencies. Automobile production has long been at the forefront of technological advances, and thus, it makes sense that brands like Mercedes, BMW, Daimler, GM, …
Despite blockchain’s origin and initial bitcoin transactions in 2009, the technology went mainstream only after the advent of “blockchain 2.0,” when new application areas such as payments, smart contracts, digital identity, exchanges and documentation across industry verticals evolved. Smart contracts is a key application area, which is one of the …