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Russian Central Bank Group Prepares 'Masterchain' Ethereum Fork for Testing

Russia's financial incumbents are moving ahead with work on a new distributed ledger platform designed for enterprise use.

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Striking Twice? Lightning's Joseph Poon Takes On Ethereum Exchange Project

Lightning's Joseph Poon is now building an ethereum-based decentralized exchange in an effort to eliminate third parties from trades.

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Colu Open-Sources Protocol to Help Central Banks Issue Digital Currencies

Colu is open-sourcing its banking infrastructure known as Bankbox and becoming "blockchain agnostic" to ease adoption among cryptocurrency issuers.

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Interoperability Boost: Ripple Sends Blockchain Transaction Across 7 Ledgers

Ripple has open-sourced a bitcoin plug-in, making the biggest cryptocurrency interoperable with other ledgers. Litecoin could be next.

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Russia's Vnesheconombank Reveals Blockchain Product Strategy

A state-owned development bank in Russia has revealed its plans for launching products built around blockchain.

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India's 'BankChain' Consortium Launches Blockchain KYC System

A blockchain consortium in India centered around banking applications has unveiled a new system for sharing information about customers.

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Fresh Off Funding, R3 Moves Corda Toward Critical Pilot

With over $100m in funding, distributed ledger consortium R3 is setting its sights on moving critical projects to pilot.

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How a Tiny Island Could Give Cryptocurrency a Big Boost

CoinDesk's Noelle Acheson discusses how efforts in the Caribbean to harness public blockchain tech could lead to regional transformation.

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Spanish Banks Form New Blockchain Consortium

A group of Spanish banks have formed a new consortium to investigate blockchain technology applications.

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Consensus 2017: Blockchain Consortia in A Rapidly Changing Market

A sense of realism came through in a series of workshops sponsored by distributed ledger consortium R3 during CoinDesk's Consensus 2017 conference.

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