By April 26, 2018, 6:00 AM EDT International Business Machines Corp., a group of four gold and diamond industry companies and an independent laboratory are developing a blockchain network for tracing the provenance of finished pieces of jewelry from mine to store.

× The health care industry could benefit from varied applications of blockchain technology, including improved ability to capture and manage patient records and claims data. People tend to have one of two views of blockchain: They see it either as synonymous with

The whole point of using a blockchain is to let people—in particular, people who don’t trust one another—share valuable data in a secure, tamperproof way. That’s because blockchains store data using sophisticated math and innovative software rules that are extremely difficult for attackers

Febraban, the Brazilian Federation of Banks with over 120 associated banks, is actively exploring and researching blockchain technology. The Federation has published tests that have been carried out on different platforms such as Corda, developed by the global banking consortium R3. Recently,

A new — and theoretical — system for blockchain-based data storage could ensure that hackers will not be able to crack cryptocurrencies once the quantum era starts. The idea, proposed by researchers at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, would

Student activists trying to ignite the #MeToo movement in China have turned to the technology behind bitcoin to battle government censorship. The rare display of dissent emerged after student Yue Xin accused prestigious Peking University of trying to silence her demands for

By April 23, 2018, 3:01 PM EDT Amber Baldet, the former head of JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s blockchain program, isn’t revealing her next gig, but at a conference Monday it became clear that her focus is on privacy. “We should be focusing

LemoChain was first established in China and is now taking off in the U.S. The platform has brought blockchain to the B2B landscape by helping companies of different sizes share secure information directly with one another. According to Andrew Ma, the Founder

Today blockchain technology is widely regarded as one of the more exciting areas of breaking edge tech, but just 12 months ago it had many in the local tech scene uninformed, dubious, or both. And while many still are (especially dubious), blockchain

This post originally appeared in Money Stuff. Here’s a story about how the shipping industry, which “still relies on millions and millions of paper documents,” is pushing to get shippers, customers, banks, insurers, port authorities and others to stop filling out forms on paper and start