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LinkedIn Co-Founder Launches ‘Hub’ a New Blockchain Trust Protocol Network

Eric Ly, Linkedin co-founder launches ‘Hub’ a new blockchain trust protocol network that aims to provide people with verified portable reputation data, to encourage more trustworthy online interactions and transactions. Hub, refers to itself as a ‘human trust protocol’, to some extent it is like an Experian rating system for your integrity, loyalty and trustworthiness, as opposed to just your financial management capabilities. By facilitating connections between users on the internet in areas such as messengers, online communities, social networks, and peer-to-peer marketplaces, Hub aims to make it easier for users…

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InBev, the World’s Largest Brewer Puts Budweiser on the Blockchain to Track Ad Data

The world’s largest brewer, AB InBev partners with Kiip to launch the world’s first blockchain powered mobile ad campaigns. Using Ethereum, Kiip’s ‘Single Ledger’ mobile marketing product will enable all players in the mobile ad sales chain to view and audit campaign data directly, bringing an end to fraudulent reporting by third parties and ad servers. Beginning with Budweiser, Bud Light, Michelob Ultra and Estrella, InBev says it is “disrupting existing paradigms through innovation and putting consumers at the heart of everything.”

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Revolutionising the Multi-Million Pound Art Market with Blockchain and Andy Warhol

Blockchain startup, Maecenas aims to transform the $65 billion art market, beginning with a multi-million pound Andy Warhol piece, to be sold in a tokenised auction sale taking place in London. Ownership of a work of art will be placed onto the blockchain, utilising it’s immutable ledger technology to create tamper proof certificates, that can be bought and sold in fractions, or shares. Notoriously, an industry reserved for the super rich, Marcelo Garcia Casil, Founder of Maecenas said it is aimed at “democratising access to fine art” for all.

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

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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‘Big Four’ Giant PwC Invests in Blockchain Start-Up VeChain

One of the ‘big four’ auditors and accounting firms in the world, PwC partners with blockchain start-up VeChain, a China-based Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain technology company. It acquired a small ownership interest in May 2018, via it’s Hong Kong and Singapore subsidiaries. The strategic partnership has the potential to put PwC ahead of it’s ‘big four’ competitors, Deloitte EY and KPMG. 

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Developing Blockchain for the NHS

Companies developing blockchain for the NHS, the world’s largest publicly funded health service with one of the most comprehensive health datasets in existence.  Google’s DeepMind have been working with the NHS since 2015, they confirm they are developing tools using blockchain and AI. Medicalchain is a startup created with Hyperledger Fabric, the highly anticipated platform is Co-Founded by an NHS Doctor and is already piloting. MedicalChain have received support and raised $30 million in their recent MedToken ICO.

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What is an ICO?

ICO is an abbreviation for an initial coin offering.  Essentially it is crowdfunding that is driven by a cryptocurrency, which is used to finance a startup company. The fundraising method was pioneered by Ethereum in 2014, it has successfully powered the growth of ‘Smart Contracts’ and continues to enable groundbreaking technology and innovations to be developed.

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