Kazushige Kamiyama’s appointment comes as the world’s third-largest economy makes a concerted effort to embrace financial innovation—and avoid being left behind.
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Interwork Alliance: tokenize carbon emissions
Rather than a blockchain-specific token, the industry group seeks to create standards for sustainability tokens that can work on any platform
The nonprofit blockchain industry group announced on July 29 that it has formed a working group to set standards for tokens that can be used in these carbon emissions trading programs.
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Wade Abel, Pranay Mohan, and Aaron Boyd all bring an interest in helping the unbanked to their role as validator for Celo (Photo: Leo Jakobson)Mission and money: Three Celo validators talk staking for the Libra competitor
Wade Abel, Aaron Boyd, and Pranay Mohan took very different routes to becoming validators on Celo’s payments-focused, proof-of-stake blockchain
By making it cheaper and easier to make payments, Celo validators are supporting both earning money and supporting a social mission aimed at the unbanked.
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Both companies say blockchain is becoming 'increasingly important' for businesses, among them food transportation (Photo: Wikimedia Commons).Driven by coronavirus, IBM and EY ally on blockchain
It’s hoped the ‘enhanced, multi-year alliance’ will help companies ‘reframe their future amidst an unpredictable and rapidly evolving environment’
“As organizations learn how to adapt to today's new normal, leveraging the cloud, AI, analytics and other technologies have become increasingly important,” EY’s global chairman and CEO Carmine Di Sibio said in a statement.
