What’s next for blockchain?

What’s next for blockchain?

Everyone got very excited a few years ago about blockchain technologies, the ledger system that was spawned by the arrival of bitcoin in 2009. It allows the recording of transactions to be automated and completely trusted, as the ledger system is tamperproof. The resulting excitement was that this could therefore replace many systems of contracts…

Ripple Beware! SWIFT is testing its own blockchain and the results are going “extremely well”

Ripple Beware! SWIFT is testing its own blockchain and the results are going “extremely well”

SWIFT is the world’s most important interbank messaging platform, and it has just published a report in which it announces the preliminary results of a technological project that seeks to implement the use of Distributed Ledger Technologies in payment processing and provision of liquidity solutions to its customers.  With more than 11,000 institutions connected via…