Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Walmart Tells Produce Suppliers to Use Blockchain by Next September

Walmart plans to sell leafy greens that are tracked using blockchain technology within the next year.
In a press release published Monday, the world's largest retailer both by revenue and by employee count announced that it told its suppliers for leafy green produce to integrate a blockchain-based tracking system built in collaboration with IBM by September 2019.
According to the letter sent to suppliers, any company working with Walmart must work with the IBM Food Trust network to create end-to-end traceability in two phases. The blockchain platform will make it easier for Walmart to source any food items quickly, with the release noting that tracing such items at present is "an almost insurmountable challenge."

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https://www.coindesk.com/walmart-will-start-tracking-groceries-on-blockchain-in-2019/

Friday, September 21, 2018

RBS Blockchain Team Jumps Ship to Build New Startups Using R3's Corda

A blockchain team from Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has left to start a blockchain "venture studio" called Chorum.

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https://www.coindesk.com/rbs-blockchain-team-jumps-ship-to-build-new-startups-using-r3s-corda/

Solving The Carbon Problem One Blockchain At A Time


 Climate change is one of the most challenging collective problems the world has faced to date. Whether we will be able to curb our carbon emissions quickly enough to avoid the catastrophic impacts of climate change is still very much in question.


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https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemmagreen/2018/09/19/solving-the-carbon-problem-one-blockchain-at-a-time/amp/

Thursday, September 20, 2018

Korea Taps Samsung's Blockchain Tech to Fight Customs Fraud



South Korea's customs authority is looking to adopt Samsung's blockchain tech as the backbone of a decentralized customs clearance system.
Samsung SDS, the conglomerate's IT arm, said on Friday that the Korea Customs Service has inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that will see Samsung's Nexledger blockchain utilized for the new platform.
Forty-eight domestic institutions, including public agencies and shipping and insurance companies, have also signed the MOU, says the firm, aiming to participate as nodes on the distributed network to bring more transparency to the customs process.
The effort seeks to share the necessary series of export documents from a number of entities, such as customs declarations and delivery forms, and is being designed to "fundamentally block document forgery," as well as make the export process more efficient.
Korea Customs Service started working with Samsung on the blockchain use case back in May, when it joined the tech giant's newly launched shipping and logistics consortium.
As CoinDesk reported in April, Samsung SDS had already started developing its blockchain platform for international shipments – one it expected to reduce costs in that sector by 20 percent.
The new customs initiative is also in line with the South Korean government's overall agenda for driving blockchain adoption in pubic services, having allocated dedicated government funding.
Currently, the Ministry of ICT is focusing on developing six pilot projects for public services, one of which is customs clearance.


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https://www.coindesk.com/korea-taps-samsungs-blockchain-tech-to-fight-customs-fraud/


https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/09/blockchain-set-to-increase-global-trade-by-1-trillion

Article: HTC Exodus: The blockchain phone that could change the internet as we know i



HTC Exodus: The blockchain phone that could change the internet as we know it



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https://www.techradar.com/amp/news/htc-exodus-the-blockchain-phone-that-could-change-the-internet-as-we-know-it

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Google Now Provides a Big Data View of the Ethereum Blockchain



Internet search giant Google has added ethereum to its big data analytics platform BigQuery.
Making the announcement in a blog post on Saturday, the company said that, while an API exists for commonly used functions such as checking transaction status or wallet balances, it's not so easy to access all of the data stored on the ethereum blockchain.




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https://www.coindesk.com/google-now-provides-a-big-data-view-of-the-ethereum-blockchain/

HOW AIRLINES ARE USING BLOCKCHAIN TO UNLOCK FREQUENT FLIER MILES

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