In order to incentivize users to refer others from their network, BitMax.io has launched a Referral Program for futures trading.

Details: https://bit.ly/2WsqHCs

A new blockchain course offered by the Australian National University (ANU)’s law school commenced this year with support from Ripple’s University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI).

Cointelegraph spoke to Lauren Weymouth, the senior manager of the UBRI’s University Partnerships Program, and Scott Chamberlain, the academic running the curriculum, to find out more about how blockchain can disrupt the legal industry and the partnership between the ANU and UBRI.

Chamberlain will be working alongside the developer behind the Toast XRPL Wallet, Richard Holland, to develop and deliver the course.

ANU law school launches blockchain course
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Chamberlain states that the first unit will explore legal issues and theory surrounding distributed ledger technologies (DLT) and smart contracts. “The real fun begins in semester two,” Chamberlain states, continuing:

“Students take what they have learned and develop a whitepaper outlining how they would use the ‘Lex Automagica’ technologies to deliver a ‘Justice Dividend’ — a significant and sustainable improvement in the ability for a large number of people to know and enforce their legal rights and obligations in an affordable, timely, and consistent way.”

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Global implementation of blockchain technology in the food industry continues to grow as the world’s biggest food and beverage company, Nestlé, doesn’t put its blockchain efforts on hold.

On April 6, Nestlé announced that the company is expanding its long-running IBM Food Trust blockchain technology platform to its coffee brand Zoégas.

Getting all necessary coffee info from blockchain database

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With this new implementation, Zoégas coffee lovers will now be able to trace select coffee editions back to different origins in Brazil, Rwanda and Colombia, the company said. Additionally, consumers will be able to access some relevant coffee information including time and location of harvest, roasting period, transaction certificate for the specific shipments, farmers, via scanning the QR code on the packaging.


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According to the announcement, Zoégas' integration with the IBM Food Trust platform became possible after Nestlé partnered with a trusted third party, the Rainforest Alliance.

Representing a non-governmental organization focusing on sustainable forestry and agriculture, the Rainforest Alliance will be responsible for providing reliable data that will allow users to follow the coffee journey to the Zoégas factory in Helsingborg. Under the partnership, the organization will purportedly provide its own certification information about the coffee and record the data directly on the IBM Food Trust blockchain platform.

MORE: https://cointelegraph.com/news/nestle-rises-to-dlt-challenge-expands-ibm-food-trust-blockchain-tool-to-coffee

As reported by ChainNews, tests will soon start in China to use the digital currency of the Yuan for which agreements have been made with several companies and catering chains including McDonald’s and Starbucks.

Yesterday there was a meeting sponsored by the Department of Reform and Development of the Management Commission of the New District of Xiong’an where the research and development of the digital currency was discussed. The meeting was also open to various merchants.

In this specific case, the meeting focused on catering and retail companies and the pilot project will start from the New District of Xiong’an, which was established only in September 2019.

The companies involved include:

Zhonghai SPV,
Jinfeng Catering,
Jiankun Catering,
Kaili Hotel,
Oscar Studios,
McDonald’s,
Starbucks,
Subway,
Golden Baihe,
Cainiao Inn,
UnionPay Unmanned Supermarket,
Jingdong Unmanned Supermarket,

This will be the first step towards the concrete use of this Chinese digital currency. It is worth recalling that the Blockchain Xiong’an Lab was unveiled only at the end of March and the director of the Xiong’an Lab, Li Jun, has set himself 2 goals:

“One is to establish a unified blockchain infrastructure platform that is compatible with different blockchains. Secondly, on this platform, we will further explore the application of blockchain in Xiong’an New District, and integrate and upgrade it.”

Source: https://bit.ly/2Y0V4QZ

A recent Bloomberg report concluded that Bitcoin may be priming for a massive bull run.

Even the report’s name is bullish — “Bitcoin Maturation Leap”. The report mentions a number of reasons that the Bitcoin market is maturing, and that it is due for a bull run. It also affirms that “Bitcoin is gaining relative fuel as stocks reset, if history is a guide”.

Bitcoin becoming digital gold

Furthermore, Bloomberg says that Bitcoin and gold, both considered hedge assets, are expected to win the most from the recent COVID-19 induced market turmoil:

“Bitcoin and gold also stand to be primary beneficiaries of the unprecedented monetary stimulus that's accompanied by a mean-reverting stock market.”

It also observes that Bitcoin's correlation to gold “has increased to all-time highs”, concluding:

“This year will confirm Bitcoin's transition from a risk-on speculative asset to the crypto market's version of gold.”

The report reiterates that 2020 will be the year when Bitcoin becomes digital gold:

“This year marks a key test for Bitcoin's transition toward a quasi-currency like gold, and we expect it to pass.”

More: https://bit.ly/3bJ8Hsp

Working as one of the most trusted, secured, and scalable decentralized oracle solutions for Web 3.0, Band Protocol has announced its collaboration with the public blockchain platform, KardiaChain. Being adopted as the standard oracle solution by KardiaChain, Band Protocol will allow all the smart contracts being operated on KardiaChain to be connected to external data APIs. The integration is likely to play a significant role in strengthening the ecosystems of both the participating firms as well as will lay the foundation of a new era of enterprise and government blockchain adoption.

The strategic news about the partnership was circulated in the crypto community through an official tweet by the Band Protocol team. It highlighted that the oracle service provider would offer the KardiaChain customers access to services like reliable price feeds, business data, and unmatched support to leverage the multi-billion-dollar enterprise and government applications.

More: https://www.coinnewsspan.com/kardiachain-includes-band-protocol-as-oracle-solution-for-government-enterprise-applications/

Multiven Donates $1Billion worth of IT Network Maintenance Services to 100,000 Hospitals at the Forefront of Caring for COVID-19 Patients Worldwide

Paris, FRANCE – WEBWIRE – Monday, April 20, 2020
In the light of the current COVID-19 pandemic, the need for all hospitals at the forefront of caring for impacted patients to have a zero IT network downtime, and non-stop access to real-time medical data from around the world, cannot be over-emphasised. Accordingly, Multiven today announced that it is donating $1 Billion worth of IT network software, hardware and technology maintenance and cyber-defence services to 100,000 hospitals in 100 countries worldwide.

The Multiven Global Hospital Support (“GHS”) program, will ensure that each hospital’s Information Technology installed-base of internet-enabled medical devices, telephones, computers, switches, firewalls and routers, enjoy, round-the-clock software, hardware and technology support, the latest software security updates to reduce their cyberattack surfaces, and cyber-defence to guard against patient data breaches, over the next 12 months.

“We are honoured to contribute our humble resources towards bringing this global pandemic to an end,” stated Peter Alfred-Adekeye, Multiven Founder and CEO.

The Multiven GHS program commences on April 20, 2020 and will end on April 20, 2021. It is open to all hospitals around the world and onboarding will be done on a first-come-first-served basis.

To get onboarded, hospitals should email [email protected]

The Multiven GHS program will, on average, donate $10,000 worth of service products to 100,000 hospitals in 100 countries.

More: https://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=258171

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April 4, 2019 – In an attempt to launch the world’s first Massive Open Online MBA (MOOMBA) via the ingenious integration of the blockchain technology, artificial intelligence (AI) and learning analytics, EIU TECH Co., Ltd., a Thailand-based Education Technology company, and the European International University, have entered into an agreement, via signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), to leverage on each other’s strengths and capabilities to make the project a reality.

Through this agreement, both parties have expressed their intentions to perform distinct roles to make the LOL project a success. Having the full ownership of the LOL Project, EIU TECH plans to build an OnLine Learning platform on the Blockchain technology, enabling self-executing smart contracts activated through the use of the utility token called LOL Coin, which is native to the LOL Platform – to govern all exchanges between parties involved, without the need for any intermediaries, hence significantly minimizing disputes that may arise from utilization of inefficient traditional records management approaches.

Among others, the platform would ensure the security of learners’ personal data, enable learners to earn credits via the proof of study protocol, as well as facilitate the validation of learning experiences which would ultimately lead to the obtainment of professional and academic certification.

The European International University, on the other hand, is tasked with providing academic support services to this project, by auditing courses and course contributors, monitoring overall learning experiences of students, and certifying successful completion of units of learning. As such, the European International University plays a supportive role to the overall development and progress of the LOL project, spearheaded by the EIU TECH Co., Ltd.

https://www.loleiu.io/mou-between-eiu-tech-lol-the-european-international-university/

We are living unprecedent times in the history of mankind. Many of us are confined in their homes. Food shortages are rising in many countries due to the gaps in centralized supply chains. Many SME companies are closing. Public liberties are been squeezed day by day. With the upcoming financial crisis, Decentralization and cryptocurrencies is a big part of the solution to the upcoming monetary crisis. Fieldcoin continues its development to bring the platform live in order to be operational in the coming paradigm shift.

https://medium.com/@marc.couzic/crypto-and-land-what-else-8de0c6d17b04