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Colu Open-Sources Protocol to Help Central Banks Issue Digital Currencies

Colu is open-sourcing its banking infrastructure known as Bankbox and becoming "blockchain agnostic" to ease adoption among cryptocurrency issuers.

Ripple has open-sourced a bitcoin plug-in, making the biggest cryptocurrency interoperable with other ledgers. Litecoin could be next.

A state-owned development bank in Russia has revealed its plans for launching products built around blockchain.

By Stan HigginsJun 1, 2017

A blockchain consortium in India centered around banking applications has unveiled a new system for sharing information about customers.

By Stan HigginsMay 30, 2017

With over $100m in funding, distributed ledger consortium R3 is setting its sights on moving critical projects to pilot.

By Jonathan KeaneMay 30, 2017

CoinDesk's Noelle Acheson discusses how efforts in the Caribbean to harness public blockchain tech could lead to regional transformation.

By Noelle AchesonMay 30, 2017

A group of Spanish banks have formed a new consortium to investigate blockchain technology applications.

By Stan HigginsMay 26, 2017

A sense of realism came through in a series of workshops sponsored by distributed ledger consortium R3 during CoinDesk's Consensus 2017 conference.

By Noelle AchesonMay 24, 2017

CoinDesk's Noelle Acheson recaps the second day of Consensus 2017, CoinDesk's New York blockchain conference.

By Noelle AchesonMay 24, 2017

A new partnership could be step one in a larger bid to unite some of the Caribbean's biggest financial institutions with blockchain tech.

By Pete RizzoMay 23, 2017