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IT Consultancy Wipro Joins Hyperledger Blockchain Consortium

India-based IT services and consultancy firm Wipro has joined Hyperledger, the Linux Foundation-led consortium building blockchains for enterprises.

The ethereum scaling solution Raiden has reached a notable milestone in a launch designed for early testing and developer feedback.

Privacy-oriented Zcash is getting a speed boost with researchers investing a faster elliptic curve for generating zk-SNARKs transactions.

By Alyssa HertigSep 13, 2017

SBI Ripple Asia will reportedly start testing its blockchain-based funds-transfer system between Japanese and South Korean banks by the end of 2017.

Researchers at Finland's central bank have dubbed bitcoin's economic system "revolutionary" in a new staff paper.

Ethereum's ERC-20 standard – which sets the rules for token issuances – has been finalized after being introduced in 2015.

Blockstream co-founder Mark Friedenbach is breathing new life into bitcoin smart contracts with his MAST proposal.

By Alyssa HertigSep 11, 2017

A new proposal for optimizing bitcoin's Lightning Network suggests off-chain micropayments could become even more scalable than conceived.

By Alyssa HertigSep 10, 2017

Ethereum's next big upgrade is approaching – but how soon and just what will it entail? To the question, there are shifting answers.

IOTA's price has tanked since an MIT researcher revealed that code vulnerabilities had led to a patch for the widely-touted cryptocurrency.

By Daniel PalmerSep 8, 2017