Blockchain news reported in August 2020
The blockchain news collection here is drawn from online coverage of distributed ledger and related technologies, and their applications, reported online in the month of August 2020.
The blockchain news items listed are the headlines; each blockchain news headline is hyperlinked to the original, online news article behind that blockchain headline, allowing you to gain an at-a-glance understanding of recent blockchain news and developments, and also to instantly read those DLT-related articles that interest you most.
Our monthly blockchain news collections are drawn from Startup News Asia’s daily startup news updates, which cover technology news from across 17 primary locations across Asia and the Indo-Pacific.
- ICYMI: Audius, Ethereum blockchain-based streaming service connecting music fans directly with artists, raises $3.1M, aiming for middle-man free artist service
- Digital currency: Sberbank, Russia’s largest consumer bank, to launch blockchain platform built on Hyperledger Fabric; reportedly considering its own stablecoin
- An overview of how the Trump administration’s WeChat ban may impact China’s Blockchain Service Network’s plan to be the only global blockchain enterprise infrastructure provider
- A primer on what’s meant by a ‘51% attack’ on blockchain and cryptocurrency mining systems
- Download: Can blockchain accelerate financial inclusion globally? via Deloitte (pdf)
- ICYMI: Fantom blockchain startup and Afghan Ministry of Public Health unveil Opera blockchain-based audit trail project to keep counterfeit medicine out of the country
- ICYMI: Alchemy, blockchain startup powering 70% of top Ethereum applications, opens doors for public use, counting Jay-Z, Charles Schwab as investors
- Blockchain in Asia: “Internet piracy has posed a major challenge for companies…blockchain emerged as a solution for fighting digital counterfeits
- Australia: Applied Blockchain Intensive Short Course- study blockchain fundamentals in 6 weeks with Blockchain Collective
- Australia: National Rugby League to pilot Smart Trademark, blockchain-based app developed by Gov’t patent and IP office, to prove merchandise authenticity
- ICYMI: Linux Foundation Public Health Initiative launches to promote use of open source by public health authorities, backed by IBM, Cisco, Tencent and others
- Hong Kong: Harnessing Blockchain Technology for Digital Transformation online event set for August 18th
- India: Wipro IT services firm implements blockchain-based small scale liquefied natural gas trading and fulfilment platform for German energy solutions giant
- Japan: Another brief look at Byacco, blockchain-based digital currency and app recently introduced for cashless payments at the University of Aizu
- South Korea: Government to implement blockchain-based service in 2021, aiming to strengthen security of non-face-to-face medical and educational data
- South Korea: One million citizens have taken up blockchain-powered digital driving license since May this year, over 3% of driving population
- South Korea: Seongnam city expands blockchain-backed payments with issuance of digital gift certificates for cash, check cards, and mobile cards for use at 45K locations
- South Korea: KEB Hana Bank partners state-backed Korea Expressway Corporation highway operator for blockchain-based national toll payments system
- ICYMI: Philippine Treasury, UnionBank and Philippine Digital Asset Exchange launched a blockchain-enabled mobile app for distributing gov’t-issued treasury bonds
- Philippines: ConsenSyS selects 5 rural banks in Mindanao to trial blockchain-based real-time payments solution, potentially impacting 35M unbanked citizens
- Sri Lanka: Tracified gains equity investment from Japan’s 360ip VC firm with blockchain-based traceability solution for supply chains
- Taiwan: Lootex partners Digital Crafter game developer for limited edition blockchain-based 3D virtual figure and digital collectible for Fight of Animals game
- But technical immaturity, legal limitations and ambiguous regulatory frameworks prevent decentralized apps from becoming serious competition for centralized platforms…
- Thailand: Office of the Court of Justice, which oversees 91% of Thai courts, ‘actively developing’ blockchain network to move judicial information entirely online
- Thailand: Lightnet partners Switzerland’s SEBA ‘crypto bank’ for blockchain-based focused on remittances for unbanked migrant workers, bridging traditional and digital finance
- Vietnam: Ministry of Info and Comms debuts akaChain blockchain platform, locally-produced and intended to speed and streamline participating business operations
- South Korea: Elysia launches small-scale blockchain-based real estate investment service, allows users to invest from $92 per month
- China: Singapore’s Conflux to revamp Hunan provincial gov’t information architecture using blockchain solutions; and initiate blockchain research and training facility
- Australia’s Power Ledger expands partnership with Thailand’s renewable energy company BCPG for blockchain-based Renewable Energy Certificate marketplace
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