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 ...

Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) adoption is growing rapidly. DLTs allow us to trust a system of data, or money, or software, even if we don’t trust any particular participant in it.

Barclays is evaluating the use of so-called smart contracts in blockchain-like technology to trade equity swaps, options and swaptions. Last month, the bank unveiled a prototype trade using ...

Blockchain's role in cybersecurity continues to expand as organizations seek reliable ways to secure data, verify identities, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Blockchain fever has, as we all know, turned into private permissioned distributed ledger fever — loosely ...

Cryptocurrency, once strictly the domain of techies, has grabbed mainstream attention due to the skyrocketing values of the likes of Bitcoin and Ethereum, two of the more popular virtual currencies.

Just as the philosopher Walter Benjamin saw how photography would surgically alter the very fabric of modernity, creatives looking at blockchain technology can see an expanding universe of ...

Smart securities firm Symbiont and Orebits, a provider of digitisation services for unrefined commodities, are claiming bragging rights for the first distributed ledger-based trade of unrefined gold.