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Softbank and Baidu Invest in Ex Google Employees Blockchain Advertising Protocol

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Major investors, SoftBank China Venture Capital (SBCVC) and Baidu Ventures (BV) have led a seed round for Atlas Protocol (ATP), a startup company founded by ex Google employees, that aims to create a new blockchain advertising protocol. ATP, incubated by Nebulas Labs and the xGoogler Blockchain Alliance (xGBA), is using blockchain technology to change the dynamics of the digital marketing industry, with a new ‘interactive’ advertising ecosystem. Currently, online marketing companies do not provide users with any control over their collected data, and with Europe’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), it has become…

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Major US Insurance Advisory AAIS and IBM Pilot Blockchain Insurance Data Platform

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One of only two major ‘rating bureaus’ in the US, the American Association of Insurance Services (AAIS), has partnered with IBM to launch a blockchain insurance data platform. Entitled Insurance Data Link (openIDL), it aims to simplify regulatory reporting for insurance carriers, which currently requires time-consuming data calls across various parties. Several major US insurers are being on-boarded, and AAIS is reported to be targeting carriers and organisations of “every size and configuration”.

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Coinbase Launches Crypto Gift Cards for Major Retailers in Partnership with WeGift

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One of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges, Coinbase launches crypto gift cards for its European customers, enabling them to purchase goods and services using their crypto assets with over 120 major brands including Amazon, Tesco, M&S, Thomas Cook and Uber. The new feature comes a few months after securing an e-money license from the UK’s financial regulator. Partnering with digital gift card startup WeGift, customers can convert upto $5000 per day of their cryptocurrency stored in their Coinbase wallets into gift cards.

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Microsoft and EY Join Forces to Build World’s Biggest Enterprise Network with Blockchain Content Rights Platform

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In a partnership with ‘big four’ consulting firm EY, Microsoft launch a blockchain content rights platform to manage the licensing process, and potentially become the world’s biggest enterprise network. The intellectual property of content generates millions of transactions per month, aggregating to billions of dollars in royalties. With the launch of the blockchain royalties platform, Microsoft and EY aim to majorly transform the value chain, cutting out the ‘middlemen’ and reducing the payment period from 45 days to just one.

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Adblock Plus Identify Fake News using Blockchain Technology

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Adblock Plus are launching TrustedNews, identifying fake news using blockchain technology. Partnering with MetaCert, the largest anti-fraud and URL registry, the browser ‘add-on’ marks for trustworthiness and labels media for fake news.

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Crypto Miners ‘Argo’ to be First Blockchain Company Listed on London Stock Exchange

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Crypto mining as a service company (MaaS) Argo, is set to be the first blockchain company listed on London Stock Exchange this week. UK-Canadian company Argo Blockchain have built a data centre that runs off cheap, green hydro-power and will sustain mining at scale. With a team of just 20 people and a prolific angel investor, Gil Penchina involved, the company has stated that it expects to be valued at around £40 million, with the aim of raising £20 million in the listing.

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Ben & Jerry’s Launches Blockchain Climate Change Initiative with Poseidon

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Ben & Jerry’s launch a blockchain climate change initiative in partnership with Poseidon. The world’s first digital retail platform connecting consumers with their own carbon footprint, will be launched in London. Poseidon have developed a technology that breaks carbon credits down into microtransactions, so each scoop of ice cream is accounted for. Carbon credits is one of the world’s biggest markets, worth €49 billion ($54.7 billion) in Europe alone. Until now, they could only be bought in bulk by large companies.

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Ethereum Founder Launches DAICO ICO Model 2.0

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Ethereum Founder, Vitalik Buterin has launched DAICO a new ICO model that merges the concept with DAOs, to increase security. By integrating a Smart Contract, token holders are now able to control the release of funds through a voting system, or indeed vote to close and refund at any time. DAICO could abolish the “pump and dump” ICO epidemic, increasing its potential. The world’s first Daico token offering has launched with ‘The Abyss’, a video game developer.

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Blockchain Technology Explained

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Blockchain Technology: To this day, we only know that Satoshi Nakamoto is the name used by the unknown person or people who designed the first blockchain to support the Bitcoin cryptocurrency launched in 2008. OK so what is it? Blockchain is a Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT).