Central Bank Digital Currency: The Nationalization of Cryptocurrencies
Green indicates announcement of development of a CBDC or other state-backed cryptocurrency. Yellow indicates interest in state-backed or state-affiliated cryptocurrency, but unresolved research or legal hangups have progress deadlocked. Yellow also indicates...
read moreWhat Enterprises Don’t Want to Deal With in a Distributed Ledger Solution
While the start-up side of the distributed ledger industry remains an unresolved flurry of innovation, the enterprise side has largely consolidated into traditional enterprise offerings with blockchain security injected in. While reports from...
read moreDistributed Ledger Highlights // 01.14.19–01.18.19
This Week: Ford Motor Company Launches Blockchain Pilot On IBM Platform To Ensure Ethical Sourcing Of Cobalt...
read moreThe 2019 Guide to Improving the Blockchain Supply Chain
As many of us who follow the distributed ledger space closely know, the market has grown accustomed to blockchain-based supply chain builds. This is for good reason, be it that while a portion of manufacturers are vertically integrated, many aren’t and instead seek a...
read moreMedTech 2018 and the Need for Blockchain
This year as part of TxMQ’s Disruptive Technology Group, we had the chance to attend the MedTech 2018 conference. If you’re not familiar, MedTech is an innovative coalition of pharmaceutical, medical technology, life science companies, research and academic...
read moreThe 1st Hashgraph Buffalo Event
On November 8th at 8 AM TxMQ’s Disruptive Technology Group (TxMQ DTG) presented Buffalo’s very first Hashgraph meetup, held at the prestigious offices of Hodgson Russ, LLP. The morning started off with the Managing Director of Z80 Labs Jon Spitz, who was nice enough...
read moreHedera Hashgraph – A Quick and Very Simple Explanation
What is Hedera Hashgraph? Hedera Hashgraph is a Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and consensus algorithm. Even though Hashgraph is actually a DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) it has been referred to as“Blockchain on Steroids” and “Blockchain 2.0” because it addresses...
read moreIntroducing Aviator DLT by TXMQ’s DTG
In 2017, TxMQ’s Disruptive Technologies Group created Exo - an open-source framework for developing applications using the Swirlds Hashgraph consensus SDK. Our intention for Exo was to make it easier for Java developers to build Hashgraph and other DLT applications....
read moreH18: The Hashgraph Developer Conference
Hedera18: First Look at the Hedera Hashgraph Conference Unless you’ve been on a long vacation under a rock you may have heard that Hedera announced their public Hashgraph platform earlier this year and in the following months have made quite a few waves in the DLT...
read moreThe Blockchain Smart City
The Blockchain Smart City As recent societal and technological advances have granted many around the globe access to a higher living standard, urbanization is becoming a much more common global trend than in decades previous. Although state and municipal governments...
read moreWill China host the World’s Blockchain Capital?
Will China host the World's Blockchain Capital? China’s Rising Blockchain Capital? As governmental institutions and private enterprises from around the world seek to explore the employment of blockchain in individual use cases ranging anywhere from credential...
read moreThe Emergence of Hedera Hashgraph
On Tuesday March 13th, Hedera, a new public ledger foundation working in conjunction with and led by the team behind Swirlds, announced and demoed their brand new distributed ledger platform, Hedera Hashgraph, at an evening launch event in New York City. At the event,...
read more