Vitalik Buterin and Binance’s CZ agree that a Blockchain-based Voting System is Needed

A new Blockchain voting system is desperately needed according Binance CEO CZ and Ethereum CEO Vitalik Buterin. According to these two crypto bigwigs the democratic electoral process in the US needs a Blockchain solution. The need to cut final tally…

Wyoming Senate Seat Goes to Pro-crypto Candidate

The current US general election has seen a crypto holder and enthusiast clinch a senatorial seat. Republican congresswoman elect Cynthia Lummis beat democrat Merav Ben-David in a hotly contested Wyoming race. An Early Crypto Enthusiast According to a Nov. 4…

The Associated Press is Using Blockchain to Transmit US Poll results

The Associated Press news agency has reportedly been publishing incoming US election results onto the Ethereum and EOS Blockchains. As poll results keep trickling in from different states and counties, the developer webpage has detailed how to access its AP…

UN Advises East Africa’s Largest Economy to Employ Blockchain Against Corruption

An official from the United Nations’ drugs and crime agency is advising East Africa’s largest economy Kenya, to explore Blockchain technology in its fight against corruption. According to David Robinson, the regional anti-graft advisor at the UN drug and crime…

Number of Non-profits Accepting Crypto Donations Rises Amid the Pandemic

The pandemic has been horrible on businesses, schools and has almost crashed economies. This has meant that key services to citizens have been hampered in certain degrees and new normals have been forced on us over the last few months.…

Ripple Joins Other Tech Giants in Calling for Fair Elections

Its election day in the United States and the crypto world has something to say about it. Blockchain payments firm Ripple is joining a group of other non-partisan companies in calling for a fair voting process in what might end…

PayPal Services to be a Crypto Highlight in 2021

Global payments giant PayPal is planning a massive play into the crypto sector next year according to its top brass. At the firm’s quarter 3 earnings meeting for 2020, senior executives discussed at length, plans to push into crypto while…

HSBC Bangladesh Completes Landmark Blockchain-based Oil Transaction

HSBC Bangladesh has just conducted the country’s first Blockchain-based letter of credit transaction (LC) on the Contour DLT platform. The Bangladeshi branch of the global firm used the transaction to settle the importation of 20,000 tons of fuel oil from…