Japan is now developing blockchain innovations through a new regulatory sandbox system under the Cabinet Secretariat of Japan and this incubation process seems not to have enough of blockchain ideas. An Empty Field Without Players Back in June 2018, the Japanese government introduced the sandbox regime to instigate the introduction of new business ideas and […]

Popular US bank JP Morgan Chase has announced the starting of its cryptocurrency trial offerings. JPM, as the digital currency is tagged will be offered to corporate users and customers for product reviews and corresponding improvements. JPM was developed earlier this year and finds the application of use for remittances between corporate bodies and bonds […]

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Let me start with one of my favorite visualizations of surveillance (not my original idea). In the late 18th century, an English philosopher, Jeremy Bentham, designed a brutally efficient prison architecture. The main innovation is quite simple: prison cells are arranged in a circular format surrounding a central watchtower. The watchtower theoretically only needs to […]

The South Korean Ministry of Science and ICT has announced plans to run a follow-up study on blockchain regulations. The study is a part of the South Korean government’s science and tech initiative aimed at figuring out how to improve blockchain regulation. This is part of the government’s plan to increase crypto adoption within its […]

Figure Technologies Inc., a financial services company has established a deal worth almost $1 billion in uncommitted asset-based financing facility on the Provenance.io blockchain with Jefferies and WSFS Banking Services. Provenance Blockchain will act as custodians and enforcers the financial services available associated with it. Figure Technologies Inc. uses Provenance Blockchain to initiate, finance, and sell its HELOC loans […]

If there is one area where blockchain technology seems to have not only direct relevance but also an enormous potential, it is ultimately developmental economics. Because blockchain’s purpose is to remove the middleman in transactions, in other words removing the need for institutions, it seems particularly relevant to use blockchain in developing countries where institutions […]

Internal Projects Each semester, selected members are presented with the opportunity to build internal consulting projects to be showcased to B@B’s greater community. Below is a snippet of present projects for Spring 2019: 1. Textbook Rental Project：Textbook rental and purchasing are problematic on various fronts — , particularly regarding online textbooks. A blockchain network has the ability […]

Share this post: Only a few years ago, consumers could trust the quality and integrity, ultimately the provenance, of their milk. That’s because each morning it was hand-delivered from a local farm by a familiar and trustworthy face: the milkman. Such a service might seem unnecessary today, but a clear link between the creation of […]