London Stock Exchange Group is studying the use of the block chain to establish what he described Monday as “an end-to-end digital marketplace ecosystem to raise and transfer capital across different asset classes”. The company had been studying the potential of a blockchain-based intermediation center for about a year and has reached a “inflection point” […]
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Circularise, the startup that tackles plastic pollution
The scientific journal “Science Advance” pointed out that in 2015 the annual global production of plastic reached 381 million tons and 80% of it will become garbage. Faced with the problem, there are different innovations that deal with this contamination, such as “circulate”, a startup from the Netherlands that uses blockchain for companies to make […]
Cryptocrime hits a record $20 billion in 2022
By Elizabeth Howcroft The illegal use of cryptocurrencies hit a record $20.1 billion last year, when prices skyrocketed transactions with Business under U.S. sanctions, data from the security analytics firm showed on Thursday “blockchain” Chainalysis. The cryptocurrency market faltered in 2022 as risk appetite waned and several crypto companies went under. Investors suffered heavy losses […]
Crypto Companies Have Cut More Than 1,600 Jobs This Year
Coinbase Global Inc., Blockchain.com and Genesis are among the companies embarking on a new round of layoffs. The three firms, along with the Huobi exchange, crypto bank Silvergate Capital Corp., Ethereum software firm ConsenSys, will collectively cut more than 1,600 jobs in the first two weeks of 2023. In a letter to employees, Coinbase CEO […]
JPMorgan, Toshiba and Ciena find a new way to protect the blockchain with quantum network
Updated on 02/17/2022 10:50 am A team of quantum computing engineers from JPMorgan Chase & Co, Toshiba Corp and Ciena Corp claim to have successfully demonstrated that a newly developed powerful encryption network can be used to protect communications on the blockchain. The group of researchers claims that it is the first time that a […]