Financial messaging service SWIFT has announced 22 global banks have joined its blockchain proof of concept, designed to validate whether the technology can help banks reconcile their international ...

A blockchain is essentially a decentralized ledger that maintains transaction records on many computers simultaneously. Once a group, or block, of records is entered into the ledger, the block’s ...

Susan Alman and Sandra Hirsh—like many people—couldn’t avoid news about blockchain in 2017. But it wasn’t all about Bitcoin. “There were interesting applications across numerous industries that piqued ...

Five months of testing are over and the results are in — the Treasury Department’s Fiscal Service is here to tell you that blockchain can enable “much better” physical asset management. In September ...

Blockchain is becoming central to more FinTech patent portfolios than ever – but it’s harder to obtain protection on blockchain than most other technologies. The US Supreme Court’s decision in Alice v ...

IBM has unveiled its proof of concept for ADEPT, a system developed in partnership with Samsung that uses elements of bitcoin’s underlying design to build a distributed network of devices – a ...

As the technology world wages forward at a heightened pace, many big name companies have stayed up to date by diving into blockchain-based solutions. India-based Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), ...

Last year, perceptions of blockchain technology were caught in the crossfire of both cryptocurrency’s swift peak and dramatic plunge. It’s not surprising: cryptocurrency is the first and most visible ...

Programmability: Allowing for sophisticated interactions and transactions. Decentralization: Ensuring control remains with the users. Global Accessibility: Making it possible for anyone, anywhere, to ...