Cortex adds AI algorithms to smart contracts today and is working towards Artificial General Intelligence

Cortex’s main mission is to provide the state-of-the-art machine-learning models on the blockchain in which users can infer using smart contracts on the Cortex blockchain. One of Cortex’s goals also includes implementing a machine-learning platform that allows users to post tasks on the platform, submit AI DApps (Artificial Intelligence Decentralized Applications). When a user initiates …

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Likely able to raise billions in private fund raising, Telegram may not bother with public ICO

Telegram has already raised $1.7 billion from two private sales and will be able to raise billions more in private sales. Telegram may not bother to have a public ICO. Telegram is a cloud-based instant messaging service. Telegram client apps are available for Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Windows NT, macOS and Linux. Users can send …

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Digital Financial Services for the world's poor can be accelerated with Blockchain

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have the Level One project to use Digital financial services (including blockchain for identification) for financial services for the world’s poor. Digital financial services (DFS) are among the quickest and most effective ways of turning millions of unbanked citizens into formal financial customers. For the first time in history, …

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Digital Financial Services for the world’s poor can be accelerated with Blockchain

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have the Level One project to use Digital financial services (including blockchain for identification) for financial services for the world’s poor. Digital financial services (DFS) are among the quickest and most effective ways of turning millions of unbanked citizens into formal financial customers. For the first time in history, …

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Corda blockchain operating system for financial markets

R3 is developing a blockchain-platformed operating system called Corda. A 100-plus member consortium of banks, regulators and technology partners are developing Corda and are led by blockchain tech start-up R3 CEV. Corda is an open source blockchain project, designed for business from the start. Only Corda allows you to build interoperable blockchain networks that transact …

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Startup Chain working with Nasdaq on blockchain share trading

Nasdaq has partnered with Chain, a bitcoin infrastructure firm, for a pilot program to test the use of blockchain for trading shares of private companies. The Chain Protocol is a design for a shared, multi-asset, cryptographic ledger. It supports the coexistence and interoperability of multiple independent networks, with different operators, sharing a common format and …

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Similarities between the expected impact of blockchain on supply chains and containerization

There are interesting parallels between blockchain supply chain and containerization and the impacts on the world and their inventors. Blockchain supply chain should have multi-trillion dollar impacts and containerization has had multi-trillion dollar impacts. Both improve the efficiency, speed and scale of trading. Both have made the inventors very rich. Shipping containers are considered one …

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Blockchain supply chain and Blockchain IoT will significantly boost global GDP by 2030

The world currently wastes or loses trillions of dollars from inefficient management of supply chains. There is hundreds of billions lost of fraud and counterfeiting. There is bureaucracy and administration to handle accounting, auditing and administration. There are multiple computer systems used by each party to the system. Supply chains makeup or impact 70% of …

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Moving towards blockchain registration control of Patents and Intellectual Property

As blockchain technology becomes mainstream, industry participants and blockchain developers will increasingly have to collaborate to develop standards and interoperability protocols. The World Intellectual Property Association has an article in WIPO magazine, “Blockchain and IP law: a match made in crypto heaven?” by Birgit Clark, Baker McKenzie, London, United Kingdom on Feb, 2018. This article …

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