Category Archives: Distributed Ledger

Hacera creates directory to make blockchain projects more searchable

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In the 1990s when the web was young, companies like Yahoo, created directories of web pages to help make them more discoverable. Hacera wants to bring that same idea to blockchain, and today it announced the launch of the Hacera Network Registry. CEO Jonathan Levi says that blockchains being established today risk being isolated because people […] Continue reading Hacera creates directory to make blockchain projects more searchable→

The blockchain begins finding its way in the enterprise

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The blockchain is in the middle of a major hype cycle at the moment, and that makes it hard for many people to take it seriously, but if you look at the core digital ledger technology, there is tremendous potential to change the way we think about trust in business. Yet these are still extremely […] Continue reading The blockchain begins finding its way in the enterprise→

SAP latest enterprise player to offer cloud blockchain service

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SAP announced today at its Sapphire customer conference it was making the SAP Leonardo Blockchain service generally available. The latter is a cloud service to help companies build applications based on digital ledger-style technology. Gil Perez, senior vice president for product and innovation and head of digital customer initiatives at SAP, says most of the […] Continue reading SAP latest enterprise player to offer cloud blockchain service→

Meet the speakers at The Europas, and get your ticket free (July 3, London)

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Excited to announce that this year’s The Europas Unconference & Awards is shaping up! Our half day Unconference kicks off on 3 July, 2018 at The Brewery in the heart of London’s “Tech City” area, followed by our startup awards dinner and fantastic party and celebration of European startups! The event is run in partnership […] Continue reading Meet the speakers at The Europas, and get your ticket free (July 3, London)→

Veridium Labs teams with IBM and Stellar on carbon credit blockchain

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Veridium Labs has been trying to solve a hard problem about how to trade carbon offset credits in an open market. The trouble is that more complex credits don’t have a simple value like a stock, and there hasn’t been a formula to determine their individual value. That has made accounting for them and selling […] Continue reading Veridium Labs teams with IBM and Stellar on carbon credit blockchain→

Xage introduces fingerprinting to protect industrial IoT devices

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As old-school industries like oil and gas increasingly network entities like oil platforms, they become more vulnerable to hacking attacks that were impossible when they were stand-alone. That requires a new approach to security and Xage (pronounced Zage), a security startup that launched last year thinks it has the answer with a concept called ‘fingerprinting’ […] Continue reading Xage introduces fingerprinting to protect industrial IoT devices→

BotChain wants to put bot-to-bot communication on the blockchain

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Increasingly we are going to be having bots conducting business on a company’s behalf. As that happens, it is going to require a trust mechanism to ensure that bot-to-bot communication is legitimate. BotChain, a new startup out of Boston wants to be the blockchain for registering bots. The new blockchain, which is built on Ethereum, […] Continue reading BotChain wants to put bot-to-bot communication on the blockchain→