ChainSecurity, a Switzerland-based smart contract auditing firm, has joined the Swiss arm of auditing and consulting giant PwC.
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- The first batch of 23 product lines are live on the Walmart China Blockchain Traceability Platform (via Walmart China).
Walmart China turns to blockchain to reassure consumers wary of food safety
Working with PwC and blockchain firm VeChain to build trust in a frequently unsafe supply chain
Walmart China announced on June 25 that it has partnered with a local trade association, a beef producer, consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), and blockchain firm VeChain to create the Walmart China Blockchain Traceability Platform.
- As cool as this may seem, trading power on the blockchain should hopefully not look like this (via Pixabay).
Fujitsu’s blockchain project lets consumers trade electricity with each other
B-to-B sales by power customers can take the strain off the grid and encourage green energy production
A new blockchain-based energy trading platform that encourages corporate energy consumers to trade power among themselves when the grid is strained by high demand led to a 40 percent improvement in efficiency in a simulation, Japanese multinational Fujitsu announced on Jan. 30.
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With Vakt investment, five of the biggest energy companies bet on blockchain
The oil and gas industry is embracing blockchain technology for everything from tracking products to financing sales
With the announcement on Jan. 16 that three major oil and gas firms including Chevron, Total, and Reliance Industries have joined Vakt, the energy-industry enterprise blockchain company now has five of the 10 largest oil firms by market capitalization on board.