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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…

Cambodia launches Blockchain-based Interbanking Platform

Cambodia is the latest jurisdiction to jump into the CBDC craze after the country’s central bank launched a Blockchain-based platform for digital money transactions known as Bakong. A source from Dap News released the story which also revealed various partnerships…

JP Morgan: Blockchain Close to Making Money

Blockchain technology has been much talked about since the market booms of 2017. Apart from Bitcoin’s higher highs, the technology has also been mentioned and applied in several sectors. We have seen it applied in data management, security, finance and…

Seven Giant Japanese companies invest in Blockchain data management system

According to a report by Japanese news outlet Nikkei, seven Japanese companies are looking at investing in a new trade management data system. The platform which has been developed by NTT Data makes use of Blockchain technology to keep out…

HBCUs are Gearing Up to Introduce Blockchain Courses

Several  (Historically Black Colleges) HBCUs are exploring the next phase of decentralized technologies in a bid to see their students get ahead of the curve. As the technology becomes more mainstream Tonya Evans, chair at MakerDAO Foundation and visiting professor…

PWC: Blockchain Technology could Add $1.7 Trillion to the Global Economy by 2030

A new PWC report shows that Blockchain technology has the potential to boost global GDP by $1.76 trillion over the next ten years. The technology which is now catching on fast despite being earlier dismissed has the potential to generate…