PayPal, an online payment giant, made its first investment in a blockchain technology company – Cambridge Blockchain. Cambridge Blockchain is a startup that helps financial institutions and companies manage confidential data using the blockchain. The amount of investment was not disclosed. However,…

According to a vacancy which was posted on the USAJobs recruitment portal of the US government, the US Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) is searching a “Cryptocurrency Securities” Advisor. The vacancy states that the Division of Trading & Markets requires an expert…

Liberty Media Corporation, the owner of the Formula 1, will launch a blockchain–based game, having an intention to attract a younger and technology–oriented community fans to the races. The game will be developed by the Hong Kong gaming company Animoca Brands and it will be called F1 Delta Time. In this game, non–fungible tokens (NFT, ERC–721 tokens) will act as collection items. NFT is a special type of blockchain–based token that is uniquely verifiable and fully owned by the owner who has the only opportunity to sell, use or exchange it. For instance, a player may have a car which will have unique characteristics & abilities that other players‘ cars do not have, and only the owner of the car can decide to take advantage of this, sell or exchange it.  Forbes reports that “all the drivers, cars & components in the game are NFT.” In addition, all NFT games “have special race day attributes which can increase the chance of winning the race.” The day of game’s release is set on May 10th. Formula 1 is one of the most recognizable sports brands in the world, and this game will attract a lot of attention to the technology. According to the company Animoca, 1.6 billion spectators are watching Formula 1 competitions, and 4.1 million people attend the races personally.

AdWeek announced about the partnership agreement between AdLedger, blockchain Consortium, and Hershey. With this agrrement, blockchain technology will be used not only in advertising campaigns of the American chocolate giant, but also in the activity of chocolate factory itself, providing tracking of…

The Swiss stock exchange operator, SIX Group, has picked R3’s Corda Enterprise platform as the basic blockchain for cryptocurrency trading, settlement, & the custody service it’s building. In an interview to CoinDesk, the chief digital officer at SIX Digital Exchange, Sven Roth…

The world’s first blockchain system for registration of newborns launched in Tanzania. In this system, all newborns in the country are registered. This system monitors the entire state of a woman during pregnancy prior to childbirth, a digital ID is assigned to…

The Ministry of Innovation Development of Uzbekistan and the national payment system of the country, Uzcard, are forming a united electronic registration for cars based on the blockchain. The project creation was initiated by the Ministry of Innovative Development, having an intention was to introduce innovative methods to ensure the safety of car transport . This blockchain platform will allow registering and keeping records of traditional car transport and transports with gas equipment. The use of this project can allow to generally modernize the transport infrastructure, ensuring safety. According to the project participants, this blockchain platform will have a positive effect on the road transport infrastructure development and will create favorable conditions within the framework of an intensively developing electric vehicle industry. Recall that earlier Uzbekistan announced its intention to transfer the cadastre and real estate registration system, also the state register of medicines to the blockchain.