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 Jack Ma, Alibaba’s co-founder, mentioned that blockchain technology could “change our world more than people imagine,” while speaking about the potential of the technology in Hong Kong attending

 TRON (TRX), the tenth largest cryptocurrency with a market capitalization of $2.7 billion, announced that its mainnet the TRON Foundation called “Independence Day” was activated on June 25, reported

 Pharmaceuticals giant Merck plans to use blockchain to verify the authenticity of medications by following them as they move through the supply chain, reported Coindeskon June 25. Merck filed a patent

 The Digital Currency Research Lab at the People’s Bank of China has been working hard to develop a cryptocurrency which would be composed of features of both cryptocurrencies and the present monetary

 Michael J. Casey, the chairman of CoinDesk’s advisory board and a senior advisor for blockchain research at MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative explains the importance of privacy for cryptocurrency

 Yao Qian, the director-general of the Institute of Digital Money of the People’s Bank of China, explains how he envisions Bitcoin, distributed ledger technology and bank ledger in the future. Bookkeeping

 UBS CEO, Sergio Ermotti, said that blockchain is “definitely an opportunity” in the long term to help businesses reduce their costs, according to an interview made by CNBC. He told CNBC, “It’s almost

 Alok Yadav, a cryptoanalyst and researcher at Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research, answers the question on Quora: What is the Difference Between Litecoin and Bitcoin? The two cryptos

 The world’s largest blockchain insurance group will use R3’s Corda platform in order to develop new products, reported Coindesk on June 18. The Blockchain Insurance Industry Initiative (B3i), founded

 The payment firm Square is granted a BitLicense from New York regulators, according to a press release published on June 18. The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) announced that

 Paul Brody, a principal and the Global Blockchain Leader at EY, explains a transition that will bring blockchain from niche use cases to general-purpose transactions. We were promised a global

 Factom Blockchain Company is granted the task to secure the U.S. border patrol data recorded with cameras and sensors through a platform in a beta version by being awarded a sum of $192,380

 Two major Russian banks, Sberbank and Alfa-Bank, are testing cryptocurrency portfolios for private clients, according to a local news outlet. The two financial institutions will be offering

 Knut Andre, cryptocurrency investors with years of experience and a graduate student that studied business and international economics, answers the question on Quora: What’s the difference between

 E-commerce giant JD.com plans to issue asset-backed securities (ABSs) on the blockchain, reported Cointelegraph on June 13. The subsidiary JD Finance will issue the ABS in collaboration with Huatai

 Abhishek Singh, the Program Director at Blockchain Semantics answers the question on Quora: What is the Bitcoin Lightning Network and Its Benefits? The Lightning Network is a decentralized system

 Bitcoin’s price increased abnormally during the recent boom due to the manipulation of the U.S. dollar-pegged tether, reported Coindesk on June 13.  The new study published by John Griffin

 Germany’s finance regulator chief, Felix Hufeld mentioned that blockchain can turn the entire financial sector “upside down” and that it is “revolutionary”, reported Coindesk on June 13. During

 Financial institutions have raised their blockchain budget of 67% individually in 2017 with a combined total of $1.7 billion invested for the technology, according to a research published by

 A group of South Korean will roll out a blockchain-based ID verification system in July, reported Coindesk on June 12. The new system called BankSign will be tested during a three months session