2023 is the year of real world asset growth, according to Fiona Delaney, co-chair at BCIRL Start-ups and Web3. In particular in her field of agri-Web3, this means land-backed asset creation and agri-DeFi. With this in mind, Delaney has selected some of her ‘most wanted’ speakers on the agenda from an interoperability and regulatory assurance […]
The team behind the Cardano ecosystem is set to release a software toolkit later this month to enable developers deploy custom-built sidechains on Cardano, aimed at improving the ecosystem, reports Cointelegraph. The news was announced on 12 January Input Output Global (IOG), a blockchain engineering company founded by Charles Hoskinson and formerly known as Input […]
A new survey from CasperLabs found that despite education gaps, enterprise adoption of blockchain technology in the US, UK and China is set to increase in the next year, reports Cointelegraph. The crypto and blockchain space has had a turbulent past year, but that is not stopping users and enterprises from looking into the industry. […]
In an official blog post published on 11 January, Ava Labs confirmed that they have partnered with Amazon Web Services to drive Enterprise adoption of blockchain technology, reports Blockcleaders.io. The Global ecommerce giant and leading cloud storage provider also confirmed the news on their official platform with a thought leadership article from Emin Gün Sirer […]
The retail industry is one of the most important sectors of the United States economy. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic has left the trillion-dollar retail sector vulnerable to in-store theft, writes Rachel Wolfson in an editorial for Cointelegraph. Findings from the National Retail Federation’s 2022 Retail Security Survey show that retail losses from stolen goods increased […]
At a recent event, Diarmuid Daltún and Florin Dzeladini, the respective Co-Founder and Blockchain Lead at DeepSquare spoke to Blockleaders.io. As a sustainable, decentralised cloud ecosystem, DeepSquare is on a mission to enable high-performance computing centred around a blockchain protocol, it reports. Alongside high-performance computing, DeepSquare is a non-profit organisation that has a strong focus […]
Climate change has become one of the most pressing issues in the modern world with mounting pressure on companies to develop and implement climate strategies. Politicians around the globe have also been actively involved, with several nations pledging to go carbon-neutral in the next couple of decades, reports Cointelegraph. Amid all the initiatives and conferences […]
Layer-1 blockchain platform Algorand has been chosen as the public blockchain to support an “innovative digital guarantees platform” to be used in Italy’s banking and insurance markets, reports Cointelegraph. The Algorand-supported platform is expected to launch in early 2023. According to Algorand’s announcement, this is the first time a European Union member state will use […]
Alibaba Cloud, or Aliyun, a subset of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, has announced an integration with Avalanche blockchain to power the company’s Node-as-a-Service initiatives, reports Cointelegraph. Avalanche’s partnership with Alibaba Cloud will see the development of tools that enable users to launch validator nodes on Avalanche’s public blockchain platform in Asia. The integration will allow […]
The American Banking Banking Association highlighted that a CBDC issued by the US Federal Reserve lacks “compelling use cases,” reports Cointelegraph. While some countries like Nigeria are aggressively pushing the use of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), a new report summarised why a number of private stakeholders are against the idea of a CBDC. The […]
Paschal Donohoe, the current Minister for Finance, has been re-elected for a second term as the president of the Eurogroup of Finance Ministers. In a unanimous vote at a meeting of the Eurogroup, Minister Donohoe was elected after no other candidate declared. “I am enormously privileged that my colleagues have entrusted me with a second […]
BlockFi, the first direct casualty of crypto exchange FTX’s collapse, has told a US bankruptcy judge that the US cryptocurrency lender was “the antithesis of FTX” and that it would seek to return customer funds as quickly as possible, reports Reuters. BlockFi filed for Chapter 11 protection on Monday, citing FTX’s collapse and volatility in […]