We're often being told that the blockchain – the tech behind Bitcoin – will rewire not just the banking sector, but social security payments, healthcare and even digital voting. Until now, it's all ...

Financial distributed ledger company Symbiont has appointed renowned cryptographer Dr Lisa Yin as its chief security officer and chief cryptographer. In her new role, Dr Yin will lead the development ...

Digital innovations in finance, loosely known as “fintech”, have garnered a great deal of attention across the financial industry. Distributed ledger technology (DLT) is one such innovation that has ...

R3 has hosted its first CordaCon event in London, just before the release of Corda version 1.0 at the end of this month. Introducing the event, R3 lead engineer Richard Gendal Brown said Corda 1.0 is ...

Blockchain technology has been hailed as a potential “second generation of the Internet.” A whole vocabulary has sprung up around it, with an emphasis on key words like distributed ledger, ...

As use of blockchain grows, so too does the adoption of distributed ledger technology in its many forms. Blockchain is the underlying storage mechanism for DLT, and with smart contracts a blockchain ...

The UK's chief scientific adviser has urged the government to adopt the technology that powers crypto-currency Bitcoin to run various public services. Bitcoins are powered by blockchains - digital ...

CordaCon 2017 in London comes just weeks before release of Corda 1.0. corda R3 has hosted its first CordaCon event in London, just before the release of Corda version 1.0 at the end of this month.