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  • Karnataka to use blockchain tech to issue 30,000 digital certificates for skill-based courses

    Officials said digital certificates will bring more security, transparency and efficiency while reducing manual verification processes.

  • How 5G technology and Blockchain tech can complement each other

    Experts say 5G and blockchain will complement each other, and work wonders in several areas. We look at a few of those areas.

  • How Blockchain Technology can help halve the average global carbon footprint by 2050

    With scientists calling for a concerted global effort to reduce global warming, blockchain technology is slated to play an important role in helping businesses reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

  • Crypto Conversations: Consensus mechanisms beyond Proof of Work and Proof of Stake

    PoW and PoS are the most common consensus mechanisms. But what exactly are consensus mechanisms? And how far does their potential extend beyond PoW and PoS?  

  • Will blockchain power India's digital dream?

    The first few blockchain-induced changes to the Digital India initiative will be in digital commerce with marked improvements in supply chain management and payment processing

  • ​Start-up Street | VC action hots up in blockchain gaming

    Even as the tax on cryptocurrencies introduced in the latest Union Budget is grabbing a lot of attention, venture capitalists are choosing to double down on blockchain-based gaming companies

  • Crypto Learn | How staking, swapping, farming can add to crypto earnings

    While trading in crypto may be grabbing headlines, there are passive ways of earning income in the cryptocurrency world

  • Crypto Learn: What is DeFi? 

    DeFi or Decentralized Finance was created with a goal to replace traditional financial systems with public, decentralized blockchain networks

  • Blockchain firm BTCS soars on retail rush for bitcoin dividends

    Shares of BTCS climbed 31.5% to a six-week high of $8.86 in premarket trading on Thursday as the online buzz over its plan grew in forums such as Reddit and stocktwits.com, which were instrumental in the "meme stock" frenzy last year.

  • Crypto Conversations: Blockchain Outlook 2022 -- Trends to look out for

    Various state governments in India are conducting trials for blockchain technology within their departments, to test its efficiency and effectiveness 

  • Melania Trump launches own NFT platform

    A non-fungible token (NFT) is a digital object that can be a drawing, animation, piece of music, photo, or video with a certificate of authenticity created by blockchain technology.

  • All you need to know about front-running in crypto trading

    Front running has fundamentally and unfortunately, evolved into multi-billion-dollar ethical malpractice of entering into an equity trade, option, futures contract, derivative, or security-based swap to capitalize on advance, non-public knowledge of a large pending transaction that will influence the price of the underlying security or coin.

  • Solana faces 17-hour outage: What does it mean?

    While the network was offline for 17 hours, no funds were lost, and the network returned to full functionality in under 24 hours.

  • Movies, music, sports are carving their space in India’s growing NFT market

    NFTs are permanent digital certificates of ownership that are secured and encrypted using blockchain-enabled technology.

  • View: There is no reason to hate Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies because of their volatility

    In the modern context, technologically challenging things such as Bitcoins find greater favour with common people compared with gold.

  • Art market 2021: NFT-certified paintings, private sales, rare collaborations and karkhana chronicles

    There are auctions and exhibitions. And then there are those rare events, private sales and new-age ways of selling art that collectors and aficionados wait for.

  • Explained | Blockchain: How a decentralised application can help a music artist and a crypto investor

    You may have heard the word being uttered all over the web but what exactly is blockchain?

  • Blockchain technology will play pivotal role in agri-tech sector: Origo Commodities

    Origo Co-Founder and Director Sunoor Kaul believes the agri space is likely to become more democratised, considering people of all denominations and financial standing will be availing credit, direct access to commodity supplies and sales, top-class warehousing solutions, etc.

  • Volvo Cars to trace battery cobalt using blockchain technology

    Volvo, owned by China's Geely Holding, has lined up deals with CATL and LG Chem covering the battery supply over the coming decade for next generation Volvo and Polestar models, including the recently launched electric model XC40 Recharge.

  • Blockchain — Reshaping the remittance industry

    Players in the remittances industry today have begun to focus on new-age technology as a backbone to address and overcome various challenges including high costs, higher turnaround time, and security issues especially associated with existing legacy systems.

  • Alibaba tops list of companies filing blockchain patents, IBM second

    China and the US are leading the global drive to develop blockchain applications.

  • Niti Aayog, GNFC to use blockchain technology for subsidy payments

    Blockchain platform have inherent characteristics of distributed computing and ledger keeping of transactions i.e. confidentiality, authenticity, non-repudiation, data integrity, and data availability.

  • Blockchain Business Conference: Demystifying Blockchain

    Visakhapatnam is the upcoming fintech capital for India hosted recently a two-day conference on Blockchain technology organised by the Fintech Valley Vizag, an initiative of the government of Andhra Pradesh.

  • Infosys bets big on blockchain technology

    Betting big on 'blockchain technology', software services major Infosys has launched a new framework that will allow banks to simplify complex transactional services.

  • Monetago Aims to Launch Low Fee Remittances to India Following PM Modi`s Vision

    India receives over $70 billion in remittances every year from Indians working abroad and pays nearly $5 billion a year or about 7.5% in fees as a ...

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