- Hyperledger expands its roster with 14 new members (IBS) — China Minsheng Bank and GM Financial are two of the notable ones
- Against The Odds, A Few Blockchain Projects See The Light Of Day (PYMNTS) – Axis Bank, BBVA, Remitware
- Our Tesla epiphany…(Manifold Technology) from Chris Finan
- In Wyoming, New Coalition Pushes Blockchain for Budgeting, Business and More (Govtech) – Caitlin Long is involved (and she is from Wyoming)
- The Blockchain Is Bigger Than Any Bubble (Bloomberg) from their Editorial Board
- “The development and implementation of the CAT have been a disaster.” (SIFMA) – I mentioned CAT as a proving ground for DLT in my older “permissioned” paper a couple years ago
- Bitcoins academic pedigree (ACM) – obligatory academic paper of the week
- “Loudon Owen of DLT Labs speaking now about GDPR requirements as important enterprise blockchain use cases” (HLP)
- Blockchain Has ‘Incredible Potential’ in Agriculture: Rabobank (Bloomberg)
- Coinbase Taps Former TD Ameritrade Exec for COO Role (Coindesk) – it is Asiff Hirji
- Chronicled Supply Chain ZK-Snark Implementation (Chronicled) – there is also a press release at the bottom of that thread
- Blockchain Adoption for X-border Payments: Learnings from IMTC World (Yakov Kofner) – Yakov is the payments/remittance SME at Gartner
- Introducing Asset Chains (Don Tapscott) – not a new or original idea
- 12 Top Blockchain Companies (Recovendor) – a vanity poll
- Tokenization? Negative, Ghost Rider. (Manifold) – a contrarian view compared to the rest of the mania right now
- IBM’s blockchain interest: has it peaked? (Enterprise Times) – IBM is probably not an outlier, that the PR from several other enterprise vendors probably has a similar curve over time
- “blockchain-supported Estonia ID is a digital identity card that grants Estonians access to public, financial and medical services” (Dave Birch)
- Bridging the gap between investment banking infrastructure and distributed ledgers (Martin Walker, Anton Semenov) two former R3 employees have a new article in Capco
- Introducing Bloom Advisor: Geoffrey Arone (PR) formerly Chief Scientist at Experian
- Libra Raises $7.8 Million in Series A Round (PR) have their feet both in enterprise and in the world of cryptocurrencies
- ETHLend and Brickblock team up for lending on the blockchain (Finextra) press release regarding Ethereum
- Visa has fired its head of innovation Jim McCarthy for behavior that ‘violated Visa policy’ (Recode) heard that at least one senior blockchain developer will leave Visa and join Jim at his new company
- Ajit Tripathi has left PwC and joined ConsenSys
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