A new report released by Ripple in partnership with CB Insights and the UK Centre for Blockchain Technologies shows that ...

A great place to start is for governments to begin recording key decisions and transactions on-chain, creating an immutable historical record resistant to AI manipulation.

Blockchain means transparency Blockchain’s transparency is often seen as one of its core values. In the digital world, transparency issues have come to the fore.

Another byproduct of how blockchain works is time efficiency — the blockchain is open for business 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, unlike banks and other intermediaries.

I would not call blockchain environmentally friendly because for instance a MasterCard credit card transaction requires a mere 0.0006 kW of energy while a single Bitcoin transaction consumes 980 kW.

Blockchain ETFs also come with the inherent risk of investing in technology-based startups, at least while the blockchain concept is still evolving, and hitting regulatory roadblocks across the globe.

Blockchain technology has the potential to transform many industries. Here we cut through the hype and look at practical examples across 3 industries that could be disrupted by blockchains.

Blockchain has the potential to be highly transformative to any company that processes payments. It can eliminate the need for intermediaries that are common in payment processing today.

For example, it has allowed the Thai Bond Market Association to create a “BondCoin,” a custom token on a private blockchain between permissioned participants including issuers and investors ...

It is also a notable example of a private blockchain (IBM) working with a public blockchain (Stellar) since Stellar handles the actual settlement of transactions, as CoinDesk noted.