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In the United States, Blue Cross Blue Shield has set up a blockchain consortium to solve the inefficiencies plaguing healthcare data sharing. The partnership, called the Coalesce Health Alliance, includes Humana, Aetna, UnitedHealthcare and Ascension. Zoë LaRock...

According to Gavin Brown, co-founder and director at venture capital firm, Blockchain Capital Limited, in the medium term multinationals could create and use their own cryptocurrencies. McDonald’s has a higher credit rating than Ireland, so this hypothesis is “not...

Volkswagen has announced the use of the IBM blockchain to track minerals used in its manufacturing supply chain. William M. Peaster (Blockonomi) explains that the technology will be able to trace the “cobalt used in lithium-ion batteries”. Volkswagen said that Ford...

The American bank launched the Interbank Information Network (IIN) including over 200 global banks. The CoinGape website explains that this solution will allow mutually share information and verify the approval of subsequent payment, offering real-time verification...

A report from Adamant Capital suggests it is now time to start accumulating bitcoin before the next bull market begins. The report also points to the relatively low levels of volatility seen in the bitcoin price lately as an indicator of less involvement from retail...

A case about cryptocurrency is now before a federal judge in Manhattan. Dena Aubin (Reuters) explains that it is a case over fees Chase Bank charged its customers to buy cryptocurrencies could help define whether digital currencies are cash. The bank stopped letting...

The venture capital firm Venrock published a report entitled "Healthcare Prognosis" for 2019. The document attaches great importance to application of artificial intelligence and blockchain in the industry. The report showed that 75 percent of industry experts are...

Consensys website analyzes the list of the top 50 companies - with minimum revenues or valuations of $1 billion - using blockchain. Forbes published this report: over half are working with Ethereum and of the fifty companies, 32 are building on Ethereum or Enterprise...

Binance launched its own blockchain, called Binance Chain, to allow crypto startups to issue coins directly on the company’s platform. Olga Kharif (Bloomberg) explains that it will also serve as the basis of Binance’s exchange and will let customers trade more...

Through a letter, the US Congress asked the Internal Revenue Service how US residents should pay taxes on bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies. Kari Paul (The Guardian) explains that this is the demonstration of the lack of regulation in the industry. “Taxpayers...

The London Stock Exchange has allowed technology company 20|30 to sell shares worth around £3 million in tokenized form. Lea Nonninger (Business Insider) explains that this brings the technology to a regulated financial market. Companies can tokenize assets, which...

Enterprise blockchain firm Digital Asset is integrating its smart contract modeling language through Hyperledger Sawtooth. Ian Allison (Coindesk) explains that this is the first melding of code between a project of the Hyperledger consortium and DA’s Digital Asset...