Blockchain technology remains one of the hottest trends among financial, governmental and commercial organisations worldwide. ForkLog magazine offers an overview of the most interesting recent initiatives.<\/p>\n
One of Japan’s largest banking groups, Mizuho Trust & Banking, plans to tokenise real estate and sell security tokens<\/a> to investors by the end of the year, according to Nikkei<\/a>.<\/p>\n The company is using the BOOSTRY blockchain platform launched by the Nomura Holdings group. Earlier, Japan Exchange Group stated<\/a> that it would issue tokenised \u201cgreen\u201d bonds on the platform.<\/p>\n Mizuho expects the move to make assets more liquid and attractive to investors.<\/p>\n Equideum Health (formerly ConsenSys Health) and Nokia Bell Labs signed<\/a> a collaboration agreement under which the companies intend to collect and store anonymised data obtained from augmentation devices. The information will then be used in clinical studies.<\/p>\n In the first stage, the parties will integrate a prototype earable device for the hearing-impaired from Nokia Bell Labs with Equideum Health’s private cloud. In the second stage, they will create a \u2018machine-learning environment\u2019, whose data security and privacy will be ensured by blockchain technology.<\/p>\n The international corporation De Beers, which mines, processes and sells natural diamonds, announced the full-scale launch of its blockchain platform Tracr. The latter enables provenance tracking for precious stones.<\/p>\n Development of Tracr has been ongoing since 2018. The project involves external partners, such as Signet Jewelers and Russia’s ALROSA.<\/p>\n De Beers said that it has already registered a quarter of its production on the platform.<\/p>\nEquideum Health and Nokia Bell Labs use blockchain to store data from augmentation devices<\/strong><\/h2>\n
De Beers to migrate diamond-supply chains to its own blockchain platform<\/strong><\/h2>\n
GSBN begins integrating its blockchain platform with trade-finance services<\/strong><\/h2>\n