One big obstacle that prevents cryptocurrencies from going mainstream has to do with how governments and traditional financial institutions accept them. This trend has been changing for a while now as many governments and central banks set to welcome cryptocurrencies. The new one in the room is the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the country’s…

Blockchain started laying its name as a technology of choice when institutional money started coming. But beyond this, blockchain-based companies are now investing in and acquiring mainstream companies and giving these companies a touch of the decentralized world. The new one on the block to be acquired by a blockchain company is Planetary Resources, a…

Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) started with a boom – helping finance many blockchain and cryptocurrency startups, bringing investors to decentralized applications, but also attracting many fraudulent actors. One of the first and most common standards for ICO tokens is the Ethereum based ERC-20 token format, and to clean scams and other fraudulent activities from the…

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development will hold an international blockchain technology conference next month to discuss the potential impact of the distributed ledger technology. The conference, dubbed OECD Blockchain Policy Forum, will look at how the blockchain technology will impact the public and private sectors. In attendance will be the State Secretary of Slovenia,…

Beginning as a technology for financial ledgers only, blockchains have grown to become the corporate hype word around the globe. It’s touted as the invention that will change business processes, disrupt governance as we know it, change international businesses for the better, and create a world where the user is in control – call it…

EOS maintains its spot as the number one blockchain project in the most recent ranking by two Chinese institutions. The second, third, and fourth places go to Ethereum, Komodo, and Nebulas, respectively. And Bitcoin has entered the top ten list for the first time since the rankings began in may this year, rising from 16th…