Distributed Ledger
News in March 2020
Distributed ledger and blockchain news headlines from across South and Southeast Asia and Australasia, touching on applications in agriculture, finance, proof-of-provenance, logistics and many more, reported online across March 2020.
Items listed are blockchain-focused news headlines, with each linked to the online news article from which the headline was drawn.
- ICYMI: Russia’s Kaspersky Lab unveils prototype of Polys voting machine, aiming to enable people to cast votes via online blockchain-based voting platform
- International Chamber of Commerce launches Digital Standards Initiative for platform interoperability between digital trade and trade finance initiatives
- ICYMI: Blockchain may help major brands from Nike to Macy’s better share product data across the retail supply chain, according to Chain Integration Project research
- ICYMI: Arweave gains $8.3M funding with ‘permaweb’ technology, saving, decentralizing and highlighting the internet, preventing erasures by censorship
- …the power of the internet is concentrated in a few multi-billion dollar companies …blockchain technology can help small businesses compete on a more level playing field
- ICYMI: Standard Chartered Bank joins TradeLens blockchain-backed digitization platform for the container shipping industry created by IBM and Maersk
- Understanding blockchains and their benefits for small businesses: A statement before the US House Committee on Small Business
- ICYMI: Storj Labs goes live with blockchain-based cloud service for businesses and individuals to securely store files and documents via decentralized storage
- China: Hunan Province to create first provincial blockchain special zone in area already home to 788 blockchain-related companies
- China: Chengdu University of Information Technology gains approval to open the country’s first undergraduate blockchain engineering major
- China: An advance look at the National Blockchain Network, set to launch in 100 cities in April and aiming to establish 200 nodes by year-end
- China: Alibaba e-commerce giant to move to blockchain via Koala digital traceability platform in bid for total transparency across supply chain
- India: AE Ventures blockchain-focused investment firm has registered over 170 early-stage startups for 1st edition of æternity Global Starfleet Program
- India: Binance crypto exchange and India subsidiary WazirX establish $50M blockchain fund to support development and growth of blockchain startups
- Blockchain for India, recently-launched $50M fund backed by WazirX and Binance, aims to invest in projects and startups solving problems through blockchain
- Japan: Securitize develops blockchain-based real estate investment platform using digital securities
- Malaysian Palm Oil Council and BloomBloc blockchain startup develop app enabling users to trace palm oil throughout entire supply chain
- Taiwan: ITM blockchain startup lands Pre-Series A backing from MediaTek semiconductor firm with scalability-focused blockchain chipset
- ICYMI: A look at Utah’s Blockchain Game Partners, building the Gala network to enable games to take advantage of cryptocurrency and blockchain ownership features
- South Korea: FLETA blockchain platform partnered by France’s Ledger, digital asset storage supplier, to help clients comply with local regulations
- Japan: OKCoin fiat-to-crypto exchange gains Virtual Currency Exchange Service Provider registration
- ICYMI: Algorand Blockchain protocol selected as the underlying technology for Marshall Islands’ digital currency, the SOV initiative
- China: A round-jup of the country’s startup, technology and funding news from February 2020, from Startup News Asia
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