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The Bank of Japan has its eyes on the technology underpinning bitcoin and other digital currencies. In recent remarks at the Conference on Retail Payments, reported EconoTimes, Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Hiroshi Nakaso said conventional financial infrastructure is built around...

Payments company Visa plans to have its new India-based technology center focus on developing blockchain technology, the Economic Times reports. The new center, based in Bangalore, was announced last year with the goal of pushing forward digital commerce around the world. The...

Cryptographer Nick Szabo, an early pioneer of bitcoin and the father of “smart contracts,” is raising funds to support a bitcoin startup, reported Quartz. The news outlet, which spoke to sources and reviewed a pitch deck, said Szabo is in talks to raise $3 million. An individual...

The United States Department of Defense (DoD) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have put out requests for millitary-related technology built on the blockchain, Defense One reports. The DoD’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wants to create a...

Tech Bureau, a Japanese blockchain company that also operates one of the country’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has closed a Series A financing round in which it has raised ¥670 million ($6.2 million). According to a report by SMN Weekly, investors include Japanese financial...

At the 2016 Consensus blockchain conference last week, Bloq revealed its first product: a multi-pronged blockchain software solution that allows enterprise users to create, update and analyze their own public, private and permissioned blockchains. The product, called...

On April 29, blockchain startup Tierion announced it has raised $1 million in a seed round led by Blockchain Capital and Fenbushi Capital, with participation from Digital Currency Group. Tierion is using blockchain technology to create a global platform to verify the integrity of...

Fluent – a Lexington, KY.-based financial operating network that leverages blockchain technology – announced Tuesday morning it has raised $1.65 million in a series seed funding round led by Venture Capital. Other investors who participated in the round include Digital...

A new smartphone application available in the UK pays users to be physically active, rewarding them with digital currency that can be exchanged for goods or traded like money, reported Reuters. Sweatcoin aims to set itself apart in the emerging fitness economy by using complex...

Delaware Governor Jack Markell announced last week the formal launch of the state’s Blockchain Initiative. The governor had announced in early April the pursuit of the Delaware Blockchain Initiative, a series of programs designed to foster expanded use and development of...