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6 Years Ago |
Traditional assets, such as real estate investments or private company stock, are notoriously illiquid. It is difficult and expensive to transfer ownership of such assets. Tokenising these existing assets, on the other hand, allows a simple and efficient ownership verification and transfer system, powered by the blockchain.


Team Blockchain recognises the very powerful potential of this new arena and has arranged a special offer for its members tickets at the special price of ￡195.00, saving 65% on the full conference fee.


Topics that will be covered by the conference are:
Security tokens
How to issue tokens in the blockchain
Regulation & governance
An investor’s perspective
Developing an...


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A Chinese Digital Renminbi could potentially replace the US$ in some countries

WeChat, which has over one billion members, is owned by the huge Chinese tech company Tencent. This is the 5thbiggest company in the world, and is helping China to rapidly replace cash and enable Chinese citizens to digitally pay for all their goods and services. Over $50 billions of transactions in 2018 was carried out on WeChat, with WeChat handling over 48 BILLION messages a day!

In a recent survey, WeChat and Alipay (owned by Alibaba) were found to be responsible for over 50% of transactions, while cash had slipped...


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Digital payments are replacing cash and Cryptos are being accepted more and more in shops

In the UK, Digital payments over took cash payments for the first time last year, and the trend of using less cash when shopping looks set to continue, with now over 63% of UK consumers using contactless payment. Contactless technology was invented by Nickola Tesla,in 1898, using radio signals to control a model boat in New York. However, it took until 1995 for contactless tickets to be first used in Seoul in Korea to replace bus and rail paper tickets. Finally, in 1997, Mobil petroleum launched...


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Four different ways Blockchain is being used in the agriculture sector

 
Blockchain technology is being used in a variety of ways to help improve efficiency, cut costs, create greater transparency and offer provenance of where goods have come from in the agriculture sector,here are four ways through which this is happening:

. Traceability- Blockchains are helping supply chains and logistics in the agriculture sector to improve traceability. This helps companies to quickly track unsafe products to their original source, so potentially preventing illness and reducing the cost of product recalls. A good example of this is the Walmart venture with IBM to...


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Luxury Brand points to a more collaborative style of capitalism
 
Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessey (LVMH), which had a turnover of $46.8 billion in 2018,is the owner of luxury brands including the wine producer Chateau d’Yquem (which has been a vintner since 1593) and has officially announced a Blockchain-powered platform called Aura.
Aura is designed to enable luxury brands to be able to track materials that are used to manufacture items, through supply channels and production, to the shops where they are sold. It is also the intention to use Aura for some luxury brands for the trade of second-hand items such...


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If you would like to come next Monday we have MakerDAO talking about Stablecoins, Jess Houlgrave talking about how Blockchain is being used by auction houses and ‘2030’ presenting lessons on being UK’s first STO Please use this link to register as spaces are limited https://www.meetup.com/ICO-Meetup-London/events/260487288/

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 New European prospectus legislation and the 5thMoney laundering directive will help STOs
 
The European Union last year agreed on new prospectus regulationsthat will come in to force on 21/07/19, which will give clarity as to how much capital a company is able to raise when doing a securities offering in each member state. It will be possible to raise up to Euros 8 million within any 12-month period from the general public, without the need for a prospectus.
The summary below shows the different amounts that each country will allow to be raised before a prospectus is required:

 
This new regulation will...


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How long with the US$ be the global currency?This article is only 5 months old, already Saudi Arabia and Facebook are talking about having their own Digital Currency. #business #facebook #blockchain #digitalassets #cryptocurrency #tokenization https://medium.com/coinmonks/is-time-up-for-the-us-as-the-worlds-reserve-currency-c05b581dec79

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Pepsi have been working with Mindshare to see how the process of digital advertising can be more efficient and cost effective. The challenge for buyers of digital adverts is only a small proportion of the money spent by advertisers reaches publishers. As there are numerous intermediaries taking a cut of the spending. Also, a considerable amount of the amount spent on digital adverts is fraudulent or inaccurate, as it includes activity from "bots". Pepsi in March this year ran a trail in Asia and saw that there was a 28% improvement ‘in terms of costs for viewable impressions, in running the...


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How Blockchains can help identify fraudulent CVs
 

 
With over 30% of CVs potentially containing fraudulentinformation, any way for HR departments to be able to check a candidate’s qualification has to be welcome.
The cost to get copies of your old “O-level”, “A-Level”, or University degree certificate can be as much as £40 per qualification. The hassle factor dealing with and time it takes can be considerable for many existing analogue data bases. However, if the qualifications are held digitally, tamper-proof and securely on a Blockchain, employees and employers alike can efficiently have access to copies of the qualification documentation.
A research group in...


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How Blockchain can be used to fight plastic pollution 

An interview with Joseph Lubin head of ConsenSys, which is the consulting arm for Ethereum discusses who Blockchain technology is being used to tackle plastic waste. In the US JC Johnson have been working on a project with eight Indonesian communities using Blockchain technology to track the collection and recycling of plastic waste.  People collect waste plastic and then are able to exchange this for digital tokens at a collection centre. Using Blockchain technology, they can then use the tokens to buy needed goods and services – reducing the risk of loss...


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England’s Football Premier League Teams offer fans tokens
 
West Ham United, whose home ground was the site of the 2012 Olympics, has just announced that it is launching its own token, so enabling its 40 Million fans to vote on club decisions and have access to exclusive offers. West Ham fans will be able to buy tokens, as well as earning them as a form of loyalty scheme and be able to encash them for “a once in a life time experience”.

The company behind the West Ham token has already signed up Juventus and Paris St. Germain (PSG), to launch PSGs...


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Is Nike going to beat Facebook to launch a mass market Crypto?
 
Nike the world’s’ largest shoe manufacturer and the most valuable apparel brand in the worldhas filed a trademark called “CryptoKicks” which could lead to them launching their own Crypto currency. This rather bold claim is on the back of Nike’s application which states “Financial services, namely, providing a digital currency or digital token for use by members of an online community via a global computer network; facilitation of financial transactions using unconventional currency systems and bartering, namely.”

Interestingly, earlier this year, Nike launched trainers that lace themselves, called HyperAdapt . Therefore,...


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