What is R3 in the Blockchain space? A review
R3 is a distributed ledger technology company leading a consortium of more than 200 firms. A vast majority of them gear their activities towards the R&D of distributed ledger usage. The company aims at disrupting the financial system and other areas of commerce.
The World’s First Share Dispenser
For the first time in the history of finance, it is now possible to obtain shares of a corporation directly via its website. No tough registration process nor other preconditions. Thanks to blockchain technology, a share can be simply bought by sending Cryptofrancs to a piece of code, a smart contract. The smart contract will, in...
Atomic Swaps
Atomic swaps utilize blockchain smart contracts technology in order to facilitate the exchange of one form of cryptocurrency for another. This is done without using a centralized entity, such as an exchange.
Ormera – when billing process meets Blockchain technology
How many of you remember PostFinance closely following the development of Blockchain technology? The financial services unit of Swiss Post, PostFinance, in partnership with Energie Wasser Bern (ewb) officially announced the launch of the start-up Ormera established in September. Ormera is the first permissioned Blockchain operated jointly by partners.
Decentralized digital identity solution: NEO & Swisscom Blockchain
The project that will bring SSI to reality: Swisscom Blockchain presented its Self Sovereign Identity solution at the 2019 NEO DevCon
Liechtenstein : Union Bank & crypto CHF
The bank located in Liechtenstein is about to launch the "Union Bank payment coin". The latter in line with the local financial regulators will create in the coming months a stable corner backed by the motto of its border country: the Swiss Confederation.
Union Bank Aktiengesellschaft (AG)
Union Bank AG is a Liechtenstein-based bank based in the country's capital, Vaduz. Small...
Blockchain Jobs: An opportunity to seize
A research from the job agency Indeed.com revealed an increase of 90% in blockchain jobs postings in 2018 and 4000% for the past 3 years in the USA. Companies around the world are seeing a future full of Blockchain applications. Yet, a strong correlation still exists between Blockchain job opportunities and the...
How Blockchain is disrupting identity management
In the digital space, the need for a digital identity becomes stronger and stronger as the technology progresses. Here, governments are no longer responsible for the authentication in the majority of the cases, but private companies such as Facebook or Google act as third party identity providers for many digital services.
Three ways Blockchain could contribute to social good
Bitcoin and crypto in general, have seen a lot of bad press. In particular related to extreme energy consumption from mining. Some articles have even suggested the digital currency growth could have a negative impact on the environment. Large energy consumption and mining are serious issues. Yet, the press hasn’t discussed much of the positive angles...
Interview with Epresspack Founder
Interview with Antoun Sfeir, Epresspack's Founder and President.Antoun Sfeir is the CEO and Founder of Epresspack, a content management software solutions that improves the strategy of international brands and their public-relations agencies to manage, publish and distribute their communication content. The company addresses the current challenge of marketing and communication professionals to manage the engagement...