Ripple’s New Partnership Lets Banks Test Blockchain and Ripple Integration

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Distributed open source payment network Ripple has extended its partnership with Expertus Payment Platform to offer banks a way to explore use of the blockchain and Ripple’s distributed ledger for real-time payments. The two companies originally partnered in April to provide a real-time payments product that offers lower costs, fee transparency, and better liquidity management. The combined solution has the capability Read more…

From Billpay to Blockchain: The Themes of FinovateSpring

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What’s changed between last year and the themes that are dominating FinovateSpring 2016? “Mobile,” “Payments,” “Banking,” “Apps,” and “Investing” are key concepts again this year. But there may be no better metaphor for the changing landscape of fintech than the fact that “Billpay,” one of the larger themes of 2015, is out and “Blockchain” is in. That said, there’s more to Read more…

Infosys Launches EdgeVerve Blockchain Framework

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This week, technology and consulting giant Infosys announced its subsidiary EdgeVerve Systems launched a blockchain offering for banks called the EdgeVerve Blockchain Framework. The new framework is a distributed, permissioned ledger that empowers banks to offer a variety of blockchain-based applications, including: Asset transfer Analytics Administrative Security Smart contracts The company’s promotional video describes its plans Read more…

Ledger Launches Blockchain Open Ledger Operating System

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A blockchain security company wouldn’t be as secure without its own operating system, which may explain why Ledger launched the Blockchain Open Ledger Operating System (BOLOS) last week. The new operating system enables developers to build source code for native applications to protect the core against application attacks and to separate the applications from each other. This increased security mechanism Read more…

Digital Asset Holdings Acquires Blockchain-as-a-Service Innovator, Blockstack.io

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Best of Show winner Blockstack.io today announced an agreement to be acquired by Digital Asset Holdings. Terms of the deal were not immediately available. Miron Cuperman, Blockstack CTO, called Digital Asset “the best platform” to deliver Blockstack’s blockchain-application-development tools as part of a comprehensive solution for customers. Digital Asset Holdings’ CEO Blythe Masters praised both Read more…

FinDEVr Live: Build Blockchain 2.0 Apps with Technology from Blockstack.io

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Blockstack.io | @blockstackio Blockstack.io is an enterprise software company that sells infrastructure for financial services and other enterprises to create blockchain 2.0 applications quickly and easily. The San Francisco-based company has taken the underlying technology of Bitcoin and sells a hosted, private sandbox to accelerate application development and prototyping. Here is the company’s perspective on Read more…

FinDEVr Live: Coinalytics Helps Businesses Leverage the Blockchain for Actionable Intelligence

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coinalytics | blog.coinalytics.co | @coinalytics Driven by the vision of decoding the world’s most powerful dataset, Coinalytics has developed an end-to-end intelligence platform, combining a variety of datasets and analytics to provide actionable insights and operational intelligence to the bitcoin industry. The path-breaking platform brings real-time machine learning and graph analytics capabilities to the blockchain. Read more…

FinDEVr Live: Gem Leverages the Blockchain to Redefine Banking from the Ground Up

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gem.co | blog.gem.co | @gemhq Gem makes bitcoin easy by allowing developers to build feature-rich blockchain applications in minutes using less than ten lines of code. By leveraging industry-leading security features such as multisignature wallets, multifactor authentication, and hardware security modules, the Gem API provides an easy-to-use, comprehensive security solution for bitcoin apps, without ever Read more…

FinDEVr Live: Chain.com Partners with Financial Institutions to Apply to the Blockchain

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www.chain.com | @chain Chain.com is the leading provider of blockchain solutions to financial institutions. Chain enables enterprises, including Nasdaq, First Data, and others, to issue, store, and transfer digital assets. Chain’s solutions reduce the cost and friction of moving assets and create new growth opportunities. The company is based in San Francisco. The blockchain is Read more…

FinDEVr Live: BlockCypher Presents How Bitcoin and the Blockchain Enable Programmable Money

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blockcypher.com | @BlockCypher BlockCypher showed how it helps companies easily build reliable blockchain applications. The BlockCypher team built a generic blockchain platform, exposing simple web APIs for developers to build on. BlockCypher runs multiple blockchains on the same infrastructure, including their own blockchain. BlockCypher provides a cloud-optimized enterprise-grade blockchain platform with no single point of Read more…

Finovate Debuts: Money Amigo Puts the Blockchain to Work for the Underbanked

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Money Amigo’s mobile banking platform delivers traditional banking products in a nontraditional way. Its clean interface targets underserved markets by delivering simple-to-use services with a transparent fee structure. Company facts: $300,000 raised 7 employees Headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada Money Amigo, which is primarily targeted toward Hispanics and students, prides itself on bringing financial services Read more…

CoinJar Leverages BlockChain Technology to Provide a Wide Range of Digital Payment Options

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This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateEurope 2015. CoinJar is the eminent digital finance platform in the Australian market. The company’s co-founders are making their way to the stage. CoinJar lets users buy, sell, send, receive, and spend digital and traditional forms of currency using the blockchain technology that underlies bitcoin. With a Read more…