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.

Blockchain consortium R3 CEV has announced its first distributed ledger experiment using Ethereum and Microsoft Azure's Blockchain as a Service, and involving 11 of its member banks. Participants were ...

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 ...

However, since it was not originally created for real-time IoT communications, blockchain has its shortcomings. Notably, the fees associated with transactions make it less suitable for small exchanges ...

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 ...