Four-year-old Auckland business Olivia is reportedly the first small to medium enterprise in Australasia to adopt blockchain in food traceability.

Billionaire Peter Thiel's venture capital firm Founders Fund is backing a startup that aims to bring Wall Street
electronic trading expertise to the bitcoin market, the Wall Street Journal reports. Tagomi Systems expects to
be the bitcoin version of a broker-dealer, executing orders to buy or sell …

The efficiency is remarkable next to current systems, and customers might well feel the difference.

SALT is a loan platform that aims to marry the old and new world of finance
by enabling cryptocurrency collateralized blockchain-backed loans with smart contracts.

Alibaba is trialing a new supply chain model based on blockchain. Piloted in Australia and New Zealand, Alibaba’s Food Trust Network could improve supply chain traceability and transparency, and form the basis of a supply chain model applied across all of Alibaba Group’s e-commerce marketplaces.

Initial Coin Offering earned the reputation as a legitimate way of fundraising. In this guide, I will explain the essentials on how to pick the right ICO investments. Read on to find the guidelines.

1.Bitcoin is the generation 0 of blockchain technology… the opening act… the gateway drug … the first inning … MySpace.

Mar 26, 2018  -  New Zealand is becoming a global blockchain centre, FintechNZ general manager James Brown says. New Zealand is a living laboratory for global tech developments and inventions and Kiwis are producing blockchain businesses that have a global market place, he says.

A consortium comprising AB InBev, Accenture, APL, Kuehne + Nagel and a European customs organisation has successfully tested a blockchain system that can eliminate the need for printed shipping documents and save the freight and logistics industry hundreds of millions of dollars annually, Accenture said.

All appears quiet in the world of crypto.   The roaring optimism we saw last year has died down considerably. With bitcoin falling 50% to US$9,900, the headlines are no longer shouting, ‘It could hit 1 million’. And as for the other all-star coins, well, they haven’t been faring much better either.