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IBM reports successful blockchain-based trade shipment

Pacific International Lines (“PIL”) has used an electronic Bill of Lading (e-BL) built on the IBM (NYSE: IBM) Blockchain Platform in a successful real-time pilot tracking shipment of mandarin oranges from China for the Lunar New Year celebrations.

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Blockchain RegTech startup TRM Labs raises $1.7 million

TRM is a RegTech startup addressing one of the biggest challenges facing the cryptocurrency industry today: compliance.

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Smart Contract-based derivatives trading platform CloseCross raises $3 million

CloseCross, a multi-party, decentralized derivatives trading platform in beta, has opened its investment round with $3 million USD backed by Amnis Ventures, a privately owned venture fund based in Houston, Texas. The investment puts CloseCross at a post-money valuation of $60 million USD.

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Bittrex joins Universal Protocol Alliance

Bittrex International has joined a coalition of leading blockchain organizations, including Uphold, Cred, Blockchain at Berkeley, Brave in support of a universal transparent reserve and custody standard that mints and burns Proxy tokens via the Universal Protocol Platform (UP Platform).

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Singapore's Everex looks for growth in the US

The mainstream payment industry has long been asking for a much-needed revolution considering the high transaction costs, remittance fees, time-taking processes and fraudulent activities.

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Hyperledger targets supply chains with Grid

Supply chain is commonly cited as one of the most promising distributed ledger use-cases.

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Seed CX kicks off spot trading on digital assets

Institutional investors who have may have held back from trading digital assets due to concerns about regulatory oversight, technical reliability and conflicts of interest can now move forward with confidence, with today’s announcement that spot trading is now live on Seed CX.

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Aprio joins Wall Street Blockchain Alliance

The Wall Street Blockchain Alliance (WSBA), an industry leading non-profit trade association with a mission to guide and promote comprehensive adoption of blockchain technology across global markets, is proud to announce that Aprio, LLP, has joined the organization as a corporate member.

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Token Economy Association teams up with Singapore government-backed blockchain accelerator

Token Economy Association (Singapore) (“TEA Singapore”) is pleased to announce the partnership with Tribe Accelerator, the first-of-its-kind government-backed blockchain accelerator, and part of TRIVE Ventures (“TRIVE”), a Southeast Asia focused Venture Capital (VC) firm based in Singapore.

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AlphaPoint appoints former R3 exec Scott Grayson head, enterprise sales

AlphaPoint, a global provider of asset digitization software, and of trading technology for licensed broker-dealers, ATS and exchange operators, announced Scott Grayson as its new SVP & Head of Enterprise Sales.

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Global Blockchain Business Council adds Fidelity's Tom Jessop to board

The Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC), the leading association for the blockchain ecosystem, has appointed Tom Jessop, president of Fidelity Digital Assets℠ and head of Corporate Business Development at Fidelity Investments, to its board.

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Christian Noyer joins SETL board

SETL announces that Christian Noyer, former Governor of the Banque De France has joined the board of directors of SETL Development Ltd.

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CoinGate and Surfshark smarten up cryptocurrency payments

Payment processing company CoinGate teamed up with a privacy service provider Surfshark for a pilot project of the long-anticipated Litecoin Lightning Network (LN) solution. Surfshark is the first company in the world to accept Litecoin payments via the Lightning Network during the test phase, which begins on 17 January 2019.

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BitPay hits $1bn in 2018 transactions

BitPay, the largest global blockchain payments provider, today announced another record year along with key accomplishments and expansion of the payment processing platform for 2018 after more than seven years in business.

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BitGo partners Genesis Global Trading

BitGo, Inc., the market leader in institutional cryptocurrency financial services, today announced that it has partnered with Genesis Global Trading, an industry pioneer and leader in over-the-counter digital currency trading, to provide clients with the ability to trade digital assets directly from BitGo custody.

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R3 forms independent governing foundation for Corda Network

R3 has launched Corda Network, the underlying, open shared blockchain network linking participants using Corda.

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Gmex Fusion adds custodian capability

GMEX Technologies Ltd (GMEX), a provider of multi-asset exchange and post-trade business and technology solutions, is pleased to announce the launch of ForumCustody and ForumWallet, part of the GMEX Fusion product suite, to include Digital Custodian and Vault capabilities.

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ICJ and Broadridge execute blockchain PoC for proxy voting in Japan

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR), an S&P 500 company and global Fintech leader, and ICJ Inc., a joint venture of Broadridge and the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (TSE), have successfully conducted the first Proof of Concept (PoC) of blockchain-based proxy voting in Japan, using Quorum as the underlying distributed ledger technology (DLT).

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Totle raises $1m to power DApp economy

Totle, the startup powering DApp economy growth by aggregating fragmented decentralized trading and exchange ecosystems, today announced a $1 million private funding round led by leading blockchain industry institutional investors Arrington XRP, NEO Global Capital (NGC), and Goren Helm Ventures.

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Security token trading platform Cezex preps Asia launch

Asia Blockchain and Crypto Association ("ABACA") is pleased to announce the launch of CEZEX, Asia's first security token trading platform, by 28 January 2019.