Blockchain & DLT
February 2020 news
Blockchain and DLT news headlines from across South and SE Asia, Australia and NZ, touching on developments in agriculture, finance, proof-of-provenance, food-tech and more, reported online in February 2020 and delivered in Startup News Asia’s daily feeds.
Items are blockchain-focused news headlines, with each headline linked to the online news article from which the headline was drawn.
- A look at how big data and blockchain can help with three key food supply issues
- ICYMI: US Federal Reserve is now conducting research on distributed ledger technology and its potential for a central bank digital currency
- California’s Naval Air Warfare Center research group invests near $10M in Simba Chain blockchain software startup focusing on secure messaging platform
- ICYMI: UK’s AiX startup negotiates first Bitcoin-US dollar trade using proprietary AI system that communicates with human traders at banks via chat services
- A brief look at Handshake Network, blockchain and cryptocurrency project aiming to make domain names censorship-proof
- ICYMI: National Bank of Egypt partners blockchain-based payments firm Ripple to establish new channels for inward remittances
- Blockchain can track the provenance of news (text or video content) so that consumers of the content know where it came from and are assured it has not been altered
- ICYMI: Italian football club Juventus partnering Sorare blockchain gaming firm to enable fans to buy tokenized digital collectible cards of its players
- Forbes unveils 2nd annual Blockchain 50 List, compiling the top 50 companies and organizations adapting decentralized ledgers to operating needs
- Australia: Perth Mint partners Security Matters for blockchain-based gold supply chain traceability project
- Australia: The National Blockchain Roadmap – Progressing towards a blockchain-empowered future (pdf)
- Australia: The National Blockchain Roadmap – a 2-pager outlining 12 key focus areas (pdf)
- Australia: “In the blockchain space, ICOs are a mechanism for funding the creation of technology platforms and development of blockchain businesses”
- Cambodia: M1 blockchain-based crypto-friendly smartphones produced by Electroneum in partnership with Cellcard telco sell out trial amount in 2 hours
- ICYMI: Sweden’s central bank, The Riksbank, launches year-long pilot project of proposed digital currency, the e-krona
- India: Telangana gov’t partners Tech Mahindra IT services firm for T-Block Accelerator, maiden program for newly-created Telangana ‘Blockchain District’
- India: Election Commission to work on blockchain-based solution for ‘lost votes’ due to migration for work, potentially numbering as many as 300 million
- Japan: Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers to trial blockchain technology for music copyright management
- South Korea: Politician Ahn Chul-soo to create new political party which will use a blockchain-powered platform for voting, accounting and budgetary transparency
- South Korea: Saramin job placement platform signs MOU with ICONLOOP for blockchain-based digital ID and authentication ecosystem
- South Korea: Pohang University of Science and Technology issues blockchain-based digital diplomas rather than have students graduate in person, due to coronavirus risks
- Singapore: World Blockchain STO Summit set for February 26th, with focus on securitized token offerings
- An intro to the 9 startups selected for the Fashion for Good South Asia Innovation Programme
- Taiwan’s Asia Pacific Telecom and a US telecoms carrier trial Carrier Blockchain Study Group platform for cross-carrier blockchain consumer payment
- ICYMI: UAE Ministry of Health launches blockchain-based platform for data storage for health, pharmaceutical, gov’t and private facilities, practitioners, and drug info
- Australia: Blockchain For Social Good event set for February 17th in Sydney, from Women in Blockchain and Blockchain Australia Young Professionals
- ICYMI: Paxos crypto startup, with Credit Suisse and Instinet broker-dealer, claims world-first live blockchain-based settlement of US equities
- As the North Korean regime finds ways to bring in cryptocurrency, it also needs ways to cash out…it relies on regional cryptocurrency exchanges that operate below the radar
- Cambodia: Electroneum blockchain and crypto startup strikes landmark deal with Cellcard, major mobile network operator, to provide airtime and data top-ups
- National Stock Exchange of Australia to partner iSignthis financial institution to develop DLT platform to compete with the ASX for digital securities trading
- ICYMI: US Federal Reserve is investigating potential for central bank digital currency as the backbone for a new, secure real-time payments and settlements system
- Australia: Swinburne University Blockchain Innovation Lab partners Asta Solutions software firm to develop blockchain-based supply chain management
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