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Advanced Blockchain Technologies
China’s capital city, Beijing, is inviting public tenders on a project to build a blockchain platform and computing center for government affairs with a total bidding price of 242 million yuan (approximately US$37.8 million). Fast facts The bidding project, “Beijing Municipal Experimental Blockchain Platform,” is for storing residents’ and city facility’s information and dealing with […]
Ningwei Qin
Advanced Blockchain Technologies
22 private sector finance heavyweights together with the BIS and central banks of China, Hong Kong, Thailand, and UAE aim to achieve a production-ready international trade settlement platform using CBDCs.
Michelle Lim
Advanced Blockchain Technologies
Solana prices keep cresting to new heights, making SOL a top-five cryptocurrency by size. What makes Solana and its ecosystem stand out? Forkast.News explains.
Zoltan Vardai
Advanced Blockchain Technologies
In a city where memories disappear every day, people are turning to blockchain to preserve news archives — so the first drafts of history will survive.
Hsiuwen Liu
Advanced Blockchain Technologies
A department director of the Shanghai Environment Energy Exchange (SEEE) said that blockchain will play an important role in the Chinese carbon cap-and-trade system for confirming, trading, and circulating carbon emission data. The statement comes at a time when China is intensively issuing top-down documents on reducing carbon emission heading into the 26th United Nations […]
Ningwei Qin
Advanced Blockchain Technologies
China’s first national standard for blockchain could be released next year and a draft is now in the process of being submitted for approval, an official said earlier this week at an event in the western province of Sichuan, according to a report from local media Chuanguan, run by state-owned Sichuan Daily. Fast facts Li […]
Timmy Shen
Advanced Blockchain Technologies
More decentralization is being planned for Polkadot as its much-anticipated rollout draws close with the first batch of parachain slot auctions starting on Nov. 11.
Michelle Lim
Advanced Blockchain Technologies
Singapore’s DBS Bank — Southeast Asia’s largest lender — has joined the Hedera Governing Council, a diverse group of companies that governs and supports the Hedera network, an enterprise-grade public ledger of transactions, according to a media statement. Fast facts DBS — the first and only bank in Southeast Asia to join the Governing Council […]
Michelle Lim
Advanced Blockchain Technologies
The Singapore government-incubated blockchain platform promises to dramatically speed up transactions and lower the cost of international trade.
Michelle Lim
Advanced Blockchain Technologies
A new data report shows there were about 55,000 blockchain-relate patents applications filed by 7,800 companies from 47 countries and regions during the period between the beginning of 2015 to June 2021, and China has seen the largest share of these applications, as the country has been boosting the development of blockchain technology over the […]
Timmy Shen
