Hyperledger Fabric


Tech

Russia's Sberbank Launches Blockchain on Hyperledger, Mulls Stablecoin in 2021

Russia's largest retail bank is launching a Hyperledger-powered blockchain for trade finance initially, and may add a ruble-linked stablecoin next year

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Finance

IBM Takes 7% Stake in Trade Finance Blockchain Network We.Trade

IBM has become a shareholder in we.trade, the blockchain-based trade-finance platform jointly owned by 12 European banks.

TRADING PLACES: IBM is taking a more active role in we.trade, the trade finance platform. (Credit: Shutterstock)

Tech

IBM Blockchain to Offer Decentralized Smart Contract Option

IBM is implementing the Hyperledger Fabric 2.0 base layer to support smart contract governance on its blockchain platform.

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Finance

State Street Slashes DLT Developer Team as Bank Rethinks Blockchain Strategy

State Street Bank has cut over 100 blockchain developer jobs as part of a pivot from transforming its plumbing with DLT to supporting digital assets.

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Markets

Foreign Exchange Giant CLS Admits: No, We Don’t Need a Blockchain for That

Forex giant CLS is now using a blockchain to handle certain currency trades, but the technology is “not essential” for the task, an executive admits.

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Markets

Energy Commodities Trading Software Launches on Hyperledger Fabric

A new software based on the Hyperledger Fabric blockchain was launched for commodities trading for the gas industry.

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Markets

Travelport, IBM Collaborate on Blockchain for Hotel Commissions

Blockchain will reduce the amount of discrepancies in booking data caused by hotel no-shows, overstays, and room modifications.

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Markets

It Took 18 Months, But This Blockchain Securities Firm Got the Nod From FINRA

FINRA has approved iownit as a broker-dealer, clearing the firm to offer digital securities on a private Hyperledger blockchain.

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Markets

ConsenSys-Backed Truffle Is Taking Its Dev Tools Beyond Just Ethereum

Truffle is expanding to Hyperledger Fabric, Tezos and R3's Corda after clocking 3.5 million downloads from ethereum developers.

Truffle's Wes McVay (left) and Tim Coulter (right) speak at TruffleCon 2018

Markets

State Street's Blockchain Lead Departs to Build Data Privacy Startup

Moiz Kohari, State Street's global chief technology architect, has left to build a new data privacy startup.

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