The June 2020 blockchain news summary from Startup News Asia
The links below represent a broad overview of blockchain and distributed ledger news reported in June 2020, focusing where possible on Asia-Pacific.
Items featured in June 2020 covered subjects as diverse as blockchain-backed solutions for digital currency, gaming, food traceability and welfare payments.
Each headline links to the original article it was pulled from; each article was also posted to Startup News Asia’s news feeds on social media and to the Startup News Asia app.
- An online collection of blockchain and DLT-focused startup news reported across the month of May via Startup News Asia
- ICYMI: OOC Oil & Gas Blockchain Consortium completes test of blockchain tech to automate payments for oilfield water-handling
- ICYMI: A look at Arweave, blockchain network for permanent data storage with new approach to smart contracts, lifting computational burden of execution from network nodes
- ICYMI: Superhero Project non-profit launched by Aeternity blockchain to provide content creators with e-wallet and decentralized social media monetization
- ICYMI: Ubisoft video game giant to launch blockchain-based digital collectibles to raise money for United Nations Children’s Fund
- Download: Deloitte’s 2020 Global Blockchain Survey results, a sampling of sentiments from 1488 senior executives across 14 countries (pdf)
- An explainer for blockchain ‘bridges’, enabling the transfer of tokens or data between two different blockchain ecosystems
- ICYMI: Ja Rule signs deal with Roll, Ethereum-based protocol providing artists with birth-to-death control over their content using tokenization
- Download: Deloitte’s 2020 Global Blockchain Survey (pdf)
- ICYMI: BHP, China Baowu and Canadian blockchain startup MineHub Technologies execute blockchain transaction in post-trade processing in mining industry
- China: Blockchain-Based Service Network gains SmartContract and Iris Foundation partnerships around streamlining, interoperability and big data
- China: Kunming unveils country’s first blockchain-based bidding platform for public resource transactions, claiming delivery of near 60K blockchain certificates for official data
- ICYMI: National Science Foundation, an independent agency of US Gov’t, awarded KRNC blockchain startup $225K grant to design cryptocurrency features for US dollar
- India: Tech Mahindra’s T-Block Accelerator unveils 30 startups selected for first cohort of blockchain-focused program
- Japan: Kyushu Electric Power to provide blockchain platform to Fukuoka’s regional bank Chikuho Bank to help digitize ‘premium vouchers’ for low-income families
- Civil, blockchain-backed decentralized incubator for journalism startups, closes down
- Could Blockchain Be a Solution to the Issue of Misinformation Online? The New York Times R&D team built an experimental prototype to find out.
- South Korea’s Planetarium selected for 5th batch of Ubisoft’s Entrepreneur Labs with blockchain-driven gaming ecosystem
- Singapore Blockchain Week Virtual Summit set for July 21-23 – here’s the agenda
- Singapore-based blockchain startup Ontology to collaborate with Bitcoin Suisse cryptocurrency financial services platform, with ONTO wallet supporting CryptoFranc stablecoin
- Singapore’s Building Cities Beyond Blockchain launch BCB Innovation Grant, aiming to award $15M to BCB ecosystem developers and targeting up to 1K projects in Asia
- Taiwan: Cathay Financial Holdings partners BSOS blockchain startup and ChargeSmith EV charging service provider for proof-of-concept in electric vehicle financing
- Thailand: Ministry of Finance to sell $6.42M in savings bonds using state-owned Krung Thai Bank’s blockchain-based e-wallet
- China: VeChain blockchain traceability platform partnered by Shenzhen Yuhongtain Foods Company to monitor and verify lifecycle of pork products
- China: Sam’s Club, high-end membership-only shopping chain and subsidiary of Walmart, partners VeChain for Blockchain Traceability Platform project, backed by PwC
- Vietnam: A video-based look at the country’s tech, startup and funding news from back in May of this year, touching on blockchain, AI and more
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• Blockchain news across Asia-Pacific
• Artificial Intelligence news, Asia
• Cybersecurity and data security news
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