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The biggest bank of Dubai – Emirates NBD, has gone live at scale with a blockchain-based project called “Cheque Chain” to substantially cut off check-related fraud. Dubai has always been quite elated ...

This week, the Kingdom’s powerhouse Saudi Telecom Company (STC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the cryptoverse’s own Ethereum-centric powerhouse venture studio ConsenSys. The deal wil ...

Dubai’s Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing, DTCM, has launched Tourism 2.0, a blockchain enabled marketplace that connects potential buyers directly to hotels and tour operators. The initiat ...

The Islamic Research and Training Institute, the research arm of the Islamic Development Bank Group and SettleMint will embark on the journey to build a blockchain-based financial product that can pot ...

In a joint press conference during the GoGlobal mission by Startups.be and Close the Gap, deputy prime minister Alexander De Croo together with Filip Lammens, CEO of VIA Don Bosco and Roderik van der ...

Over 50 per cent of the UAE's federal transactions would be powered by blockchain technology by 2021, it was announced on Wednesday. The Emirates Blockchain Strategy would help the country save Dh11 b ...

Ireland is the home of the company’s Mastercard Lab, a section aimed at developing revolutionary payment solutions. The corporation will be hiring 175 more staff members for their Dublin office to dev ...

Samsung wants to create a blockchain system that would help it better manage the shipment processes. The company hopes to cut one-fifth of the related costs. South Korea’s Samsung Electronics is weigh ...

UAE-based banking group Emirates NBD is rolling out its Cheque Chain platform, a security-enhancing technology that integrates blockchain into checks to strengthen their authenticity and minimize pote ...

Last year Dubai Land Department became the world’s first government entity to conduct all transactions through Blockchain network.  Read more here

UAE lauded for being the real leaders of Fourth Industrial Revolution through service excellence Dubai: The so-called ‘father of the Fourth Industrial Revolution’, Henrik Von Scheel, said on Tuesday t ...

The UK and 21 other countries have signed a declaration aiming to share blockchain experience and expertise across Europe, as well as preparing to launch EU-wide blockchain applications. Twenty-two Eu ...

Blockchain is the next frontier of the real estate market, making inroads at a fast clip. The use of the technology will make it possible to have transparent transactions that sellers and buyers will ...

Launch is part of UAE's plans to become a world leader in adopting technology Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has launched the U ...

Bank of America Works with Blockchain One of the most important banks in the United States, Bank of America, will start working with Blockchain technology. According to a patent application released o ...

Major players including Lufthansa and citizenM hotels are partnering with startups and talking to large corporate clients about whether they can do group bookings via blockchain instead of using middl ...

When news broke that Facebook leaked the data of more than 50 million users to Cambridge Analytica — a third party data firm that is most known for creating profiles with targeting messaging for the T ...

Blockchain Technology and Online Gaming: An Emerging Goldmine The world is unraveling new use cases for blockchain technology each day. Although most people think of Bitcoin and finance when they hear ...

Blockchain. At the most recent South by Southwest Conference earlier this month, it was one of the top buzzwords floating around the various pockets of conversation. A large majority of the people tal ...

The Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) has launched its blockchain-powered digital bank for art, ArtBank. According to Dubai Culture, the platform is the first of its kind in the world a ...