Week Ending July 8, 2016
Financial Services
How Banks Will Stop Snoops From Using the Blockchain to Front-Run Trades
Startup Clears First Blockchain-Settled Institutional Spot-FX Trades
Blockchains at Payments Innovation: SETL shines, 11:FS takes a stand and DWP tests Gov Coin
Blockchain in insurance–opportunity or threat?
Z/Yen’s Michael Mainelli believes blockchain works better for insurance than banks
Government
Hillary Clinton and the Blockchain
US Government Issues Call for Blockchain Healthcare Research
Global
UK Trials Blockchain-Based Social Welfare Payments
Russian Banks Form Private Blockchain Consortium
Moscow Joins Race to Wreck London as Global Fintech Capital
Ukraine to Host World’s First Blockchain-based Auction
Dutch Government Invests in a Blockchain Development Campus
Thriving after Brexit: The UK and EU Should Reboot on the Blockchain
Israeli Fintech Hybrid: Another Block in the Blockchain
Consultancy Firm Advises Gulf Countries to Start Exploring Blockchain Tech
Myanmar Microfinance Firm Trials Blockchain
An Australian Political Party is Building a Blockchain That Could Prevent Brexit’s
Visa Europe: Blockchain is More Interesting than Bitcoin
Blockchain
The mad rush to own the rights to the blockchain
Everyone Wants to Patent Blockchain
Unraveled: Blockchain and why smart contracts still need smart lawyers
How Blockchain Helps Brooklyn Dwellers Use Neighbors’ Solar Energy
Blocksafe Applies Blockchain Tech to Improve ‘Smart Guns’
Ethereum Blockchain to Secure Sneakers in Honor of Kanye West
Peerplays Open Sources Automated Blockchain-based Distribution Model
Blockchain content sharing app LBRY declares independent from Google, Apple and Amazon
Blockchain identity innovators Netki raises $3.5m funding led by O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures
Pink Floyd: Blockchain technology in music could be ‘truly revolutionary’
SolidX Partners Launches Vida – Enterprise-Grade Blockchain Identity Software
Thought Leadership
Industry gurus tackle blockchain privacy and digital identity
Microsoft Azure marketplace includes Emercoin Blockchain Engine
Education not Speculation: Message from the Blockchain Training Conference
At W3C Event, Industry Seeks to Weave Blockchains into New Web
Industry research papers highlight blockchain technology’s disruptive potential
Will Blockchain Technology Replace Traditional Business Models?
Best of Bluemix: blockchain, mobile security, stray dogs, and smart toothbrushes
Does Blockchain hold the key to the distributed patient data dilemma?
Blockchain: the answer to life, the universe and everything?
Forecasting the blockchain disruption
Rethinking Enterprises, Ecosystems and Economies with Blockchains
Immutability! Or Why Infinite Data Storage is a Perpetual Motion Claim