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Air Canada to Integrate Blockchain-Based Travel Distribution Platform
“Air Canada recognizes the importance of leveraging this next generation technology. We plan to integrate Air Canada’s Direct Connect API with Winding Tree’s public blockchain platform, giving blockchain-savvy users the ability to access our content directly from the source.”
Source: Air Canada to Integrate Blockchain-Based Travel Distribution Platform, Ana Alexandre, October 24, 2018
Read MoreMinimum Viable Utility – Yannick Folla – Medium
Projects need to understand that “build it and they will come”, is probably much closer to the truth than “incentivize them and they will come”. Bootstrapping an ecosystem and an economy is impossible without a product that users actually want. The tokens should only be introduced after you’ve nailed product-market fit because only then can its purpose be understood, instead of forcing artificial demand when they can’t actually be used for anything valuable.
Source: Minimum Viable Utility – Yannick Folla – Medium, Read More
Understanding Digital Asset (a.k.a. Token) Fungibility: Opportunities for and Challenges to Token Valuation and Blockchain Ecosystems | LinkedIn
The opportunity lies in the technological advancement and resulting business opportunities with not only first-market advantages, but also with enabling new industries and business models that have not existed before.
Source: Understanding Digital Asset (a.k.a. Token) Fungibility: Opportunities for and Challenges to Token Valuation and Blockchain Ecosystems | LinkedIn, Nitin Gaur, September 23, 2018
Read MoreThe Ultimate Guide to App Coins and Protocol Tokens – Blockgeeks
Before the blockchain, there was no way to economically incentivize the underlying protocols. These tokens incentivize participants to work in the interest of the protocol.
Source: The Ultimate Guide to App Coins and Protocol Tokens – Blockgeeks
Read MoreWinklevoss Twins Launch Stable Coin, Receive Green Light from Regulator | NewsBTC
The Gemini dollar has been built on the Ethereum network. According to CNBC, the pair are hoping that the new coin will help to bridge the gap between digital assets and traditional banking. It will allow users to convert U.S. dollars to the new Gemini dollars in order to move value quickly, and transparency around the world. Tyler Winklevoss spoke to the publication in a telephone interview:
“It is really a matter of bringing your U.S. dollars on to the blockchain and making them borderless 24/7.”
Source: Winklevoss Twins Launch Stable Coin, Receive Green Light from Regulator | NewsBTC, Rick D. | September 10, 2018
Read MoreStability In Volatile Markets: What You Need To Know About Stable Coins
Forget supply and demand. Unlike traditional cryptocurrencies, stable coins are concerned with achieving a fixed price. “Stable coins are trying to strike the balance of not being dependent on a central bank, while also securing price stability,” said Brigitte Luginbuhl, CEO of SwissRealCoin
Source: Stability In Volatile Markets: What You Need To Know About Stable Coins., Andrew Rossow, Sep 7, 2018
Read MoreBlockchain for Airlines and Aircraft Leasing | LinkedIn
The aircraft leasing industry is one of the fastest- growing industries globally. A number of factors have resulted in this growth, including but not limited to, a year- on-year increase in passenger traffic, the rise of low-cost carriers (LCC) and the growth of the APAC market.
Given the nature of this capital-intensive industry, it is interesting to note some of the antiquated systems and practices, which are still commonplace. For example, the maintenance of an aircraft is a process that uses cumbersome databases at best and, at worst, a paper- based system prone to losses and errors throughout.
With the rapid rise of digital technologies in other industries, it seems only a matter of time until the aircraft leasing game is affected. To that end, this article will explore the potential benefits of adopting Blockchain technology in the aircraft leasing industry and assess a number of potential use cases, which have a truly disruptive potential for all stakeholders involved.
Source: Blockchain for Airlines and Aircraft Leasing | LinkedIn, Hans Casteels, IBM | September 4, 2018
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Read MoreGlobal Blockchain in Business Survey 2018: PwC
What is the state of blockchain today? In PwC’s 2018 survey of 600 executives from 15 territories, 84% say their organisations have at least some involvement with blockchain technology. Companies have dabbled in the lab; perhaps they’ve built proofs of concept. Everyone is talking about blockchain, and no one wants to be left behind.
Four key strategies can help them build trust and stay on a path toward successful execution.
Source: Global Blockchain in Business Survey 2018: PwC
Read MoreStablecoins: designing a price-stable cryptocurrency | Hackernoon
A useful currency should be a medium of exchange, a unit of account, and a store of value. Cryptocurrencies excel at the first, but as a store of value or unit of account, they’re pretty bad. You cannot be an effective store of value if your price fluctuates by 20% on a normal day.
This is where stablecoins come in. Stablecoins are price-stable cryptocurrencies, meaning the market price of a stablecoin is pegged to another stable asset, like the US dollar.
Source: Stablecoins: designing a price-stable cryptocurrency, Haseeb Qureshi, February 19, 2018
Read MoreTwo Major Spanish Public Institutions to Research Blockchain for Copyright Management
The main lines of research will focus on disruptive technologies that address the challenges posed by the volume, diversity and dynamics of change in the use of content in the contemporary digital environment.
Source: Two Major Spanish Public Institutions to Research Blockchain for Copyright Management, Marie Huillet, July 28, 2018
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