Blockchain & DLT
April 2020
Blockchain news and distributed ledger tech news from across Asia and Australasia, covering applications in agriculture, finance, food provenance, logistics and many more, reported online in April 2020.
Items listed are blockchain-focused news headlines, with each linked to the original online news source from which it was drawn.
- EY Global Blockchain Summit 2020 set for April 21-23, online, covering the technology, applications and implications in taxation and beyond
- Digital art and blockchain: “Enforcing scarcity in digital art couldn’t happen before…until recently you couldn’t box it up and create an asset out of it”
- ICYMI: BMW Group unveils PartChain blockchain project, aiming to trace parts, critical raw materials and data in international supply chains
- Blockchain: GM files patent application for continuously updating navigation system using blockchain to integrate data from sensors for autonomous vehicles
- Download: The Blockchain Report 2020 – Financing, Themes, Coronavirus and The Year Ahead, from CB Insights
- ICYMI: Reddit forum apparently working towards cryptocurrency integration with implementation of blockchain-based points system
- ICYMI: World Economic Forum publishes white paper, ‘A Framework for Blockchain Interoperability’, looking at weaknesses in supply-chain systems exposed by coronavirus
- A look at moves towards blockchain taken by farmers across Asia, aiming to build trust with transparent supply chains and profits from the premium that trust may create
- ICYMI: Carbon County in US to become second in Wyoming state to implement blockchain-based land registry platform, aiming for titlehold transparency
- Australia: Animoca Brands blockchain gaming firm engages PrimaryMarkets online marketplace to launch private trading of unlisted securities and investments
- ICYMI: Keep blockchain protocol launches with tBTC altcoin to bridge gap between Bitcoin and Ethereum, allowing BTC holders to use Ethereum-based DeFi solutions
- China Mobile Blockchain Association Committee and tech firm Chongqing Jinwowo to collaborate on creation of ‘blockchain and e-commerce ecology’ lab
- China: Binance cryptocurrency exchange launches Blockchain Technology and Industry Research Institute in Shanghai
- China: National blockchain committee launches with Huawei, Baidu, Tencent, Ant Financial, JD, People’s Bank and technical university delegates
- Asia Reserve Currency Coin gains $3.48M seed funding from Int’l Blockchain Monetary Reserve, aiming for financial inclusion for the urban working poor in SE Asia
- Japan: BitFlyer cryptocurrency exchange launches blockchain consulting service to aid companies taking their first steps into blockchain
- South Korea: A brief intro to MOIN, blockchain-backed remittance startup offering money transfer services for 29 countries
- Blockchain Association of Singapore launches following merge between Singapore Blockchain Association and Blockchain, Enterprise and Scalable Technologies
- Singapore: In just 18 months from formal launch, dltledgers now processes more than $1BN in trade finance via its supply chain traceability blockchain platform
- Taiwan: BSOS blockchain firm closes $1M angel funding round with focus on enterprize applications
- South Korea: Nonghyup Bank introduces blockchain-backed ‘mobile employee ID’ service, partly driven by North Korean cyber-attacks
- South Korea’s Terra stablecoin, initiated by e-commerce giant TMON, partners Solana blockchain to cut credit card transaction fees from retail profit margins
- Australia: Power Ledger to roll out blockchain energy trading to apartments in WA, delivering renewable energy via embedded network, solar PV and microgrid
- Australia: An intro to Meld Gold, scheduled to launch a blockchain-based platform for tokenized gold trading in Q3 2020
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