Distributed Ledger (Blockchain etc)

Istanbul, Turkey – Bitandex is a SocialFi metaverse ecosystem that facilitates connections between cryptocurrency enthusiasts and improves trading opportunities. This platform focuses on leveraging the benefits of crypto and the metaverse, as well as the digital transformation they bring to the economy. 

Austin, United States – FirstBatch is practicing in artificial intelligence and zero-knowledge proofs is building a self-sovereign personalisation ecosystem that will enable hyper-personalised experiences without the cost of privacy, changing how online recommendations are made. The team is preparing to showcase their product at ETH Denver and display the capabilities of their technology to the community.

San Francisco, United States – The Easy Company has announced a partnership with Mysten Labs, a web3 infrastructure company and initial developer of the Sui Layer 1 blockchain.

Miami, United States – AI holds revolutionary power in its hands. Its incorporation into any sector of the world has always proven to be beneficial. According to statistics, this innovation holds the potential to add a whopping [$13 trillion (€12.13 trillion)] to the global GDP by 2030 and what’s more, it can add almost 133 million jobs to various sectors.

LootMogul is partnering with a sports marketing and commercial rights agency Six Sport, to support its growth plans and expedite the adoption of blockchain gaming for sports organisations and athletes, delivering truly immersive sports fan experiences.

Denver, Colorado – X METAVERSE PRO is making further developments for X META Copy Fund services to ensure a greater user experience. The blooming expansion of blockchain technology has made copy fund services more accessible and easy to adapt for customers worldwide.

Palo Alto, United States and Shenzhen, China – EY announces the official opening of the EY APAC Tech Lab, a new incubator and engineering lab in Shenzhen, China, to meet the needs of the growing Asia-Pacific market through rapid innovation. As an agile, Asia-Pacific-focused unit, the Lab will play a crucial role in strengthening the EY technology portfolio in the geographic area, strategically acting as a hub for technological development, experimentation, and application.

New York, United States – The Quadrans Foundation, as part of the TRICK Consortium, will provide the blockchain technology infrastructure for the new platform’s design and will use Truebit to achieve TRICK’s development goals.

California, United States – With the Metaverse, Web3, Blockchain, and NFTs, brands are wondering how they can get involved.

Madrid, Spain. 8 February 2022 – Telefonica Tech, Telefonica’s digital business unit, joins the LACChain global alliance, made up of different actors in the blockchain environment and led by the Inter-American Development Bank Group’s Innovation Lab (IDB Lab). The main focus of its members is to promote the significant adoption of this technology and the development of the blockchain ecosystem in Latin America and the Caribbean.

New York. 3 Jan 2022 – Future FinTech Group Inc.a blockchain-based e-commerce business and a fintech service provider, announced that its subsidiary, FTFT Capital Investments LLC has launched FTFTX, a global cryptocurrency market data platform that provides institutional and individual investors with real-time, high-quality and reliable cryptocurrency market data and aggregate trading information from a large number of cryptocurrency exchanges.

Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems MMS will use its infrastructure to participate the public blockchain network Polkadot as a validator. In addition, T-Systems MMS has acquired DOT tokens, and supports interoperability between decentralised blockchain networks. DOT, the native token of the Polkadot network, is one of the cryptocurrencies in the world.

Berlin, Dec. 18, 2021 – As blockchains have become more widely adopted in recent years, the lack of interoperability among chains has remained a major obstacle. After five years of technical development, Polkadot has launched the parachains, individual blockchains running in parallel within the Polkadot ecosystem, on its network.

Over the past few months, non-fungible tokens, or the NFTs, have burst into the mainstream, expanding and challenging our collective understanding of ownership. But what are they? This article provides a brief introduction to NFTs, a roundup of 2021 and why we believe they are paving the way for strong growth in years to come, says Shruti Soni leads marketing & PR at RtistiQ.

With Chinese scientists claiming to have built not one but two quantum computers that are ten million times faster than even the most powerful conventional supercomputers and IBM following their announcement by announcing their own exponentially faster quantum computer, it seems that commercially viable quantum computing is just around the corner. This will mean huge leaps forward for almost every industry, but it also puts an incredible amount of computing power in the hands of criminals.

London, UK. 1st December – FinTech Connect, the UK’s fintech show, has shared its 2021 Industry Survey. With insights collected from over 100 FinTech executives from across the industry ecosystem in Q4 2021, the report reveals the biggest challenges felt and opportunities anticipated by the today’s leaders.

Edinburgh, UK.17 November, 2021 – IOTech, the edge software company, announced five predictions for edge computing in 2022. Among its forecasts, the company foresees a proliferation of AI and machine learning at the IOT edge and edge-cloud architectures as the norm. 

Littleton, Colo. and San Francisco. Oct. 26, 2021-DISH Network Corporation partners with both Helium Inc., a provider of decentralised unlicensed wireless networks, to support open source and low-cost wireless connectivity ecosystems.

Companies that embrace blockchain achieve more and cite it as key to protecting data and unlocking productivity savings, but what is it and how does it work? Now a new book, Blockchain Impact! by Dr Christian de Vartavan brings together the views and stories from 17 CEOs and senior execs that testify adoption of this tamper-proof means of recording information has revolutionised their business and drives innovation.

Clear, a blockchain-based clearing and settlement solution, introduces a life cycle management platform for information and communication technology companies (ICTs) looking to automate their data services.

The pandemic has changed the way the world operates forever. Whether it be working, shopping, entertaining or connecting with friends and family the restrictions of movements has driven everyone online and transformed the world as we know it.

Blockchain Centre, a network-based organisation that assists companies and products in entering the blockchain space, has announced a strategic partnership with the Binance Smart Chain (BSC).

Terra Virtua, the social, digital collectibles platform, has announced that it has switched from Ethereum to the Polygon blockchain. The move to the greener and scaled blockchain solution marks a major step towards creating a more sustainable Non Fungible Tokens (NFT) ecosystem, laying the foundations for future growth.

If anyone still doesn’t believe that cryptocurrencies are the future of money, investments and raising capital, they are “already considerably behind the curve,” says the CEO of independent financial advisory, asset management and fintech organisations .

Dogecoin has become the new GameStop, with frenzied trading potentially going to deliver a bloody nose to novice investors. So says the CEO of deVere Group, an independent financial advisory and fintech organisations.

Telefonica Tech, Fibocom Wireless Inc., and aitos.io, have signed a collaboration partnership to create joint solutions combining IoT and Blockchain technologies. Telefonica Tech is the unit that encompasses the digital businesses of Cloud, Cybersecurity and IoT, Big Data & Blockchain. Fibocom Wireless Inc. is a global supplier of wireless communication modules and solutions in the sector of IoT, and aitos.io, is a technology start-up focusing on integrated innovation in the Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchain.

OneConnect Financial Technology Co., Ltd ., an associate of the Ping An Group, and China Merchants Group recently launched the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Port Logistics and Trade Facilitation Blockchain Platform Project for the ports Shekou and Shunde.